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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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