Dear Jmellby, This is indeed a very old publication and although our database goes back to the 1800s, we cannot guarantee that all full collections are available. In this case we suggest you to contact the relevant National Patent Office to see if they can provide you with a copy. Link to the Patent...

The EPO has started to provide linked open data on European patents and applications and on the technical classification scheme CPC to the public free of charge, allowing academics, companies, data scientists or web developers to combine patent data with other information more easily.

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THEN you should regularly check out the e-learning centre

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Hi Eric,
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