<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c2c71369-1a87-45f3-9e27-1e5c9bbf3bd1/8092D66A-5B5E-481B-8B48-4C3B75A0127B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://eyelevel.si.edu/2009/04/abraham-lincoln-20.html" href="http://eyelevel.si.edu/2009/04/abraham-lincoln-20.html" style="font-size: 11px;">eyelevel.si.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://eyelevel.si.edu/2009/04/abraham-lincoln-20.html"><P>I recently discovered a side of Abraham Lincoln I didn't know too much about: our sixteenth president was a nineteenth-century technophile. Not only is he the only president to this day to have a <A href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=19">patented invention</A> (come'on President Obama, your turn), he used then-new technology to help win the Civil War. Obama may be glued to his Blackberry, but Lincoln had a thing for the telegraph, sending out and receiving transmissions that author <A href="http://www.mrlincolnstmails.com">Tom Wheeler</A> referred to as "T-Mails" in his engaging talk.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8092D66A-5B5E-481B-8B48-4C3B75A0127B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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