Smith, Robert D. O.

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Smith, Robert D. O.		Washington	Washington D.C.	1864

Patent	Date	Remarks
43,529	July 12, 1864	Improvement in Cartridge-Retractors for Revolving Fire-Arms view patent
45,529	December 20, 1864	Improvement in Calipers view patent

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The Clara Barton and Julian B. Hubbell letters under date October 1, 1887 mention a letter written to R.D.O. Smith in Washington D.C. by Julian B. Hubbell in which he describes his and Clara Barton's experiences at the 4th International Conference of the Red Cross Society in Carlsruhe, Germany. In the book, Cassier's Magazine Engineering Illustrated, Volume XIII, November, 1897 - April 1898, see page 153+ "rope Transmission, The American System of " By R.D.O.Smith. See Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Series 2, Letterpress Copybooks, 1897. Letter from R. D. O. Smith to Fred DeLand, June 22, 1896. R.D.O. Smith was engaged in a company named "Smith & Scrivener", Washington 1864 which must be engaged in agriculture. R.D.O. Smith signed as one of the witnesses for William Hinds, Little Falls, Herkimer county, New York patent no. 43,849 For Improvement in Rotary Pumps, granted August 16, 1864. In his description of the Black Maria in the January 1895 issue of Photographic Times, R. D. O. Smith refers to the "curious looking building" as the "kinetographic studio," a slight variation on the more common "Kinetographic Theatre," as most called it. The latter included W. K. L. and Antonia Dickson, whose use of "theatre" is notably distinct from their description of the "photographic studio" that Dickson also built at the Edison Laboratory. See R. D. O. Smith, "Some Photographic Talk," Photographic Times 26 (1895): 24; and Dickson and Dickson, History, 20. 28. Dickson and Dickson, History, 19-20. 29. "How They Make Moving Pictures," Lincoln (Neb) News, October 28, 1908 (Edison Papers Project, Micro?lm Edition, Reel 221).

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The Clara Barton and Julian B. Hubbell letters under date October 1, 1887 mention a letter written to R.D.O. Smith in Washington D.C. by Julian B. Hubbell in which he describes his and Clara Barton's experiences at the 4th International Conference of the Red Cross Society in Carlsruhe, Germany.

In the book, Cassier's Magazine Engineering Illustrated, Volume XIII, November, 1897 - April 1898, see page 153+ "rope Transmission, The American System of " By R.D.O.Smith.

See Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Series 2, Letterpress Copybooks, 1897. Letter from R. D. O. Smith to Fred DeLand, June 22, 1896.

R.D.O. Smith was engaged in a company named "Smith & Scrivener", Washington 1864 which must be engaged in agriculture.

R.D.O. Smith signed as one of the witnesses for William Hinds, Little Falls, Herkimer county, New York patent no. 43,849 For Improvement in Rotary Pumps, granted August 16, 1864.

In his description of the Black Maria in the January 1895 issue of Photographic Times, R. D. O. Smith refers to the "curious looking building" as the "kinetographic studio," a slight variation on the more common "Kinetographic Theatre," as most called it. The latter included W. K. L. and Antonia Dickson, whose use of "theatre" is notably distinct from their description of the "photographic studio" that Dickson also built at the Edison Laboratory. See R. D. O. Smith, "Some Photographic Talk," Photographic Times 26 (1895): 24; and Dickson and Dickson, History, 20. 28. Dickson and Dickson, History, 19-20. 29. "How They Make Moving Pictures," Lincoln (Neb) News, October 28, 1908 (Edison Papers Project, Micro?lm Edition, Reel 221).