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 (NJ)
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 know 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
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
1884 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
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 Mjr 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 NH 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 Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
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