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Patents for Historical Research

This page contains resources covering topics as diverse as the History of Technology and Colonial South Carolina.

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Resources for Inventors

Historic Inventors
and Their Inventions

This bibliography is a convenient list of all of the books and government documents listed throughout this guide.

Confederate Patents

Here is a document listing all of the known inventions issued from the Confederate Patent Office to residents of South Carolina.

Genealogy Resources

This document lists a large number of resources available in the Federal Documents collection of R.M. Cooper Library. Links to electronic versions of these documents are also included.