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1988 Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse

1976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78

1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera

1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper

1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit

1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California

1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar

1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory

1948 Dr. Frank G Back (New York City) patents lens to provide zoom effects

1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies

1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers

1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip

1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly

1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR

1930 Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb

1928 Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor

1926 John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle

1923 Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal

1923 Col Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver

1923 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)

1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers

1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace

1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

1915 John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll

1915 John B. Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll

1914 Garrett Morgan invents and patents gas mask

1914 John Wray patents animation

1914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner

1914 Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern

1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper

1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper

1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim

1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum

1912 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards

1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B. A. Fiske

1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker

1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs

1910 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine

1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)

1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball

1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting

1906 Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars

1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade

1903 Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone in New Jersey

1903 Clyde Coleman of New York City patents automobile electric starter

1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine

1902 Irving W. Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine

1901 Gillette patents 1st disposable razor

1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner

1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles

1900 Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player

1899 George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee

1899 IR Johnson patents bicycle frame

1899 J. S. Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner

1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film

1898 Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster

1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents radio

1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass)

1897 W B Purvis patents electric railway switch

1896 J. H. Hunter patents portable weighing scales

1896 Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain

1896 W. S. Hadaway patents electric stove

1896 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also known as the zipper

1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)

1895 Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil

1895 George Selden patents 1st gasoline-driven car

1895 Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile

1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine

1894 Daniel Cooper patents time clock

1894 John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"

1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat

1893 Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"

1892 Charles A. Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator

1892 George Sampson patents clothes dryer

1892 George C. Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter

1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)

1891 Granville T. Woods patents electric railway

1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1891 John T. Smith patents corkboard

1891 Travelers checks patents

1890 D. McCree patents portable fire escape

1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

1889 Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder

1889 William Gray patents coin-operated telephone

1889 Dan Rylands patents screw cap

1888 William Bundy patents timecard clock

1888 John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire

1888 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen

1888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers "Kodak"

1888 William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine

1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door

1888 Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers

1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"

1887 A Miles patents elevator

1887 Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone

1887 Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire

1887 Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film

1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs

1887 Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes

1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon

1886 Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor

1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)

1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate

1884 John B Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1883 James Cutler patents postal mail chute

1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine

1883 A. Ashwell patents free-toilet in London

1881 David Houston patents roll film for cameras

1881 Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano

1881 Lewis Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament

1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters

1880 A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil

1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

1879 Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus

1879 James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon

1879 W. H. Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage

1878 An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo

1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)

1878 Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)

1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph

1876 Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench

1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone

1876 A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor

1875 William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities

1874 Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire

1874 Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head

1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)

1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents gold crown

1872 J. S. Risdon patents metal windmill

1872 Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires

1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio

1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy

1872 Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk

1872 George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine

1872 Thomas J. Martin patents fire extinguisher

1872 George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains

1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags

1872 Silas Noble and JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine

1871 Albert L Jones (New York City), patents corrugated paper

1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (New York City)

1871 Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa

1870 J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)

1870 E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement

1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum

1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron

1869 O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector

1869 Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy

1869 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner

1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process

1868 Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine

1868 Alvin J. Fellows patents tape measure

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"

1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

1867 D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint

1867 Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete

1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle

1866 J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener

1866 Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass

1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal

1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st U.S. coffee percolator

1865 John Hyatts patents billard ball

1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)

1863 William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press

1862 Richard Gatling patents Gatling gun

1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis)

1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun

1862 Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret

1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph

1862 John D. Lynde patents aerosol dispenser

1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)

1859 George Simpson patents electric range

1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts

1858 Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine

1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine

1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox

1858 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie

1857 Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine

1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine

1857 William Francis Channing and Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm

1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle

1856 Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers

1856 Anthony Fass patents accordion

1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine

1856 A. E. Burnside patents Burnside carbine

1855 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor

1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope

1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

1854 Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams

1854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair

1854 Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car

1854 Smith and Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges

1854 Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes

1854 Anthony Foss patents accordion

1851 Alvan Clark patents telescope

1851 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine

1851 Dr. John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"

1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock

1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus

1849 Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon

1849 Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device

1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill

1848 M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair

1848 Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone

1848 William G. Young patents ice cream freezer

1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City

1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire

1846 Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg

1846 Elias Howe patents sewing machine

1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax

1845 Rubber band patents

1845 Joseph Francis, New York City, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat

1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour

1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber

1844 Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents

1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter

1842 Micah Rugg patents a nuts and bolts machine

1841 N E Guerin of New York patents cork-filled life preserver

1841 John Hampton patents venetian blind

1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph

1840 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process

1838 Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake

1836 A. Phillips patents match

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

1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm

1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy New York)

1835 Solymon Merrick patents wrench

1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine

1834 Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper

1832 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine

1830 D. Hyde patents fountain pen

1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)

1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)

1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine

1825 Walter Hunt patents safety pin

1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)

1823 R. J. Tyers patents roller skates

1822 Charles Graham patents false teeth

1822 Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth

1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose

1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe

1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)

1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp

1813 David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas

1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania patents a horse-drawn mower

1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

1809 Robert Fulton patents steamboat

1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider

1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock

1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine

1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine

1796 James S. McLean patents his piano

1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine

1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin

1793 Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin

1791 John Stone, Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver

1785 British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle

1783 Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock

1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit

1772 John Clais patents 1st scale

1722 French C. Hopffer patents fire extinguisher

1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun

1677 John and Nicolaas van der Heyden patents fire extinguisher

1675 Christian Huygens patents pocket watch

1660 Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni

1618 Captain John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain


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