On this day in 1915 Robert C. Edwards was granted the patent for HYDROAEROPLANE. U.S. Patent No. 1,156,218.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in flying boats or hydroaeroplanes and comprises an apparatus of this nature having various details of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts.

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