Henry Steinway, Jr. receives the United States patent #34,910, to “construction of repetition mechanism which is independent of the jack so as to give both of them greater freedom and positiveness and certainty of action and imparting a better “touch” to the action”. This is Henry Steinway, Jr. last patent. For the next four years there will be no more Steinway & Sons patents, until William Steinway’s first and only patent in 1866.