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...Congress to enact a patent statute as expressly authorized by the US Constitution and wisely advised that "there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science . . ." In 1790, the first patent statute initiated the transformation of the United States from an...

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...original intent might note that George Washington himself told Congress in his first annual message, "There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of Science and Literature." The Father of his Country proposed especially the creation of a national university for instruction...

..."Nor am I less sersuaded that you will agree in the opinion that there is nothing which can setter deserve your patronage than the promotion of science...country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in rvhieh the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately 'rom the sense of the community...

...Washington reminded its members of the importance of progress in science and the arts, proclaiming that "there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature." Less than 6 months later, the Congress passed two landmark laws: the first Patent Act, which President...