Library
Primary sources
10,458 documents, including 9,211 patents from 28 patent offices. Scanned and transcribed from the estate archive.
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What the offices held it against
9,134 documents
Not held here — indexed. The prior art examiners weighed his claims against, and the later filings that had to cite him. Each links to its public record.
- Cited prior art 2,559 documents Patents cited by the ones held here, indexed by number, title and inventor. The archive does not hold copies of these; each links...
- Patents citing this work 6,575 documents Later patents that cite the ones held here, indexed by number, title and assignee. Who built on Meyer's filings after he made them...
Not yet filed
Shelves that arrived after the library was arranged. They are here so nothing goes missing while somebody decides where they belong.
- Notices 6 documents The small print of a life, as a local newspaper recorded it: a hospital list, an engagement, a wedding. These are not about the wo...
- Related filings 5 documents Patents the archive holds by choice rather than by citation: the rest of a portfolio whose other filings cite Meyer, or a filing o...