> The Patent for Porter's reflecting telescope is available directly from > the patent office's online > site at a huge long url, which is too long to type in or put on a single > line.
For future reference, there's an easy fix for that problem: Once you have navigated to the site with the long URL, copy it from the address bar, then go to <http://tinyurl.com> Enter the long url, hit "Make a shorter URL", and copy the tiny result to paste into your email. They keep just the link association you create, but keep it forever. And it's totally free... > You can just go to: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html > and search for telescope in title and porter in inventor, yielding two > patents, one for the > refracting, and one for the reflecting one.(having set the full database > period in the selection ) Another very useful free site is <http://pat2pdf.org> Enter the patent number, and they will retrieve the TIFF images and create a multi-page pdf file you can download or view immediately. No TIFF plugin required! Dave --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
