{"id":5085,"date":"2025-12-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2025-12-13T21:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:48:33","slug":"december-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5085","title":{"rendered":"December 13, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On December 13, 1816, U.S. Patent No. X2705 issued to J. Adamson on a Floating Dry Dock:<\/p>\n\n\n

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A floating drydock is a floating structure that can be partially submerged so a ship can enter it and then pumped out to allow the ship to be serviced on a dry surface. So impactful was Adamson’s dry dock, that Congress renewed the patent by an Act of Congress on March 2, 1831 from 12 Dec 1830. A floating drydock of almost identical design to Adamsons was still in use in Hoboken, NJ in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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