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2000 Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends

1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin New York City after 5 perf

1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances

1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes

1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)

1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory

1947 Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute

1946 Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb

1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system

1936 EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants

1933 Patent on invisible glass installation

1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree

1929 Amedee Turner, born in England, Amedee Edward Turner, politician, barrister, Conservative Party, Member of the European Parliament, patent lawyer

1929 Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)

1917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand

1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard

1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc

1906 Wright Brothers patent the aeroplane

1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for ice cream cone

1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan

1895 1st U.S. patent granted for auto, George B. Selden

1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto

1893 Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat

1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1889 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake

1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine

1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire

1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle

1879 George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile

1877 John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill

1872 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office

1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued

1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1863 1st U.S. fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia

1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn

1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln

1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so

1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine

1846 C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive

1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire

1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid

1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC

1836 U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels

1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs

1834 1st black to obtain a U.S. patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter

1833 Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent soda fountain

1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain

1825 Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans

1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston

1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw)

1803 John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine

1799 1st U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont

1794 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)

1794 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

1793 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick

1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk and linen

1791 John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat

1791 Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine

1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent

1790 1st U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process

1790 U.S. Patent system forms

1788 1st U.S. steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet

1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn

1706 John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens

1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service

1684 Patent granted for thimble

1664 Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam

1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent

1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)

1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft

1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore N Amer

1578 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize US


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