Patent Databases - Specialized and Historical
- About.com: Inventors
- Extensive annotated list of invention-related links, includes lists like Chinese Inventions, Famous Inventors, Black Inventors, and Women Inventors
- Alabama Inventors Database
- Database of patents created by the Birmingham Public Library
- Black Inventors by State or Country of Residence, 1834-2008, Index
- Downloadable Excel Spreadsheet, Compiled by Margaret J. Collins, Illinois State Library (2008)
- DNA Patents Database
- Contains a collection of DNA-based patents and patent applications issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and makes the full-text of such patents and applications available to users at no cost.
- From Air Brakes to Zinc Furnaces: Pittsburgh and Allegheny City Patentees 1790 - 1879
- Database of patents created by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
- Cincinnati Inventors Database
- Database of patents issued to Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio Inventors from 1813 through 1873.
- Confederate Patent Office
- List of Patents issued by the Confederate Patent Office, 1861-1864
- Historical Idaho Patents Database
- Database of patents created by the University of Idaho Library
- Index to Early Louisiana Patents, 1810-1890
- Database of patents created by Miami University Libraries
- Inventors Museum
- Directory of inventors and inventions in categories like Colonial Inventors, Medical Inventions, and War Tech
- Iowa Inventions Database
- Database of patents created by the Iowa State Library
- Miami Valley Inventors Historical Database
- Bibliographic information on over 1800 patents, including biographical notes of a few inventors, cities and towns, attorneys of record, estate administrators, and assignments; covers the period 1814-1875 for an 11 county region around Dayton, OH : Butler, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby and Warren counties
- Nevada Inventors Database
- US patents issued to Nevada inventors from 1862 through 1938. Created by the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
- Oklahoma Inventors Database, 1880 - 1907
- Database of patents created by Oklahoma State University
- South Carolina Inventors, 1793 - 1893
- Database of patents created by Clemson University Libraries
- U.S. Alien Property Custodian Documents Database
- Database of bibliographic data for WWII patent applications that were seized by the Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and published by the Patent Office in the spring of 1943
- Women Inventors Index, 1790 - 1895
- Database created by the Miami University Libraries
- Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders
- Compiled by The Library of Congress Science, Technology & Business Division
- Wyoming Inventors Database
- Databases of patents created by the Wyoming State Library
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