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The Edison National Historical Park holds an extensive set of successful and unsuccessful American and foreign patent applications. Most of these applications, and related materials, are from the files of Edison's patent attorneys and date from the 1880s and later. For the earlier period, there are certified copies of seven abandoned patent applications, originally filed in 1873, as well as a collection of tracings and other patent application drawings. Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.