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Blast from the Past: Einstein & Thomas Jefferson were patent- examiners!

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While patent examiners are generally known for helping others obtain patents, who would have known that a famous inventor and scientist, none other than the great Albert Einstein, was himself a patent-examiner once!  As the story goes, Albert Einstein was appointed at the federal patent office in Bern (Switzerland) in 1902. It is believed that upon graduation, Einstein tried to get a job as a teacher, but without any luck. It was then that he secured a job as a...

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