Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . dlucrative practice which, from their formerexperience in the departments, they arespecially prepared to handle satisfactorily. A. M. SMITH, Solicitor of Patents, &c, No. 625 P street N. W. Washington city is the center of appli-cations for patents from all parts of thecountry. Mr. Smith, as a solicitor, is oneof the ablest in Washington, and requiresthe service of several able clerks to con-duct his correspon
Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . dlucrative practice which, from their formerexperience in the departments, they arespecially prepared to handle satisfactorily. A. M. SMITH, Solicitor of Patents, &c, No. 625 P street N. W. Washington city is the center of appli-cations for patents from all parts of thecountry. Mr. Smith, as a solicitor, is oneof the ablest in Washington, and requiresthe service of several able clerks to con-duct his correspondence, which extendsfar and wide over the American was born in Broome county, NewYork, and came to Washington in a number of years, from 1857 to 1866,he was an examiner in the Patent Officein the class of harvesting machinery. Heresigned that position in October, 1866,since which time he has been engaged asa solicitor of patents and as counsellor inpatent cases. Mr. Smiths specialty isthe soliciting of patents for harvestingmachinery, of which class he was in chargewhen in the Patent Office. 108 WASHINGTON CITY. THE LAUTEN ENGRAVING N. Y. Among the many exhibitions of the in-ventive genius of mankind, which havemarked special epochs in the enlightenedperiod of the early and latter part of thenineteenth century is that of engraving,and one of the latest methods is that byelectricity by the Lauten EngravingCompany. The inventor of this mode ofengraving, is Mr. Herman Lauten, a na-tive of Prussia, by profession a civil andmechanical engineer, and who has been aresident of Washington city for the pasttwenty years. The Lauten EngravingCompany, occupy the entire third floor ofthe above located building, where theyhave large dynamo machines worked bya ten horse power engine in the basementof the building, besides chemical batteriesof great power. They also employ largephotographic cameras, one of them uponthe roof of the building, used for reduc-
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