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July's Famous Inventions - Famous
Trademarks, Copyrights, and Patents |
1
1952 Silly
Putty was
trademark
registered on July 1. A trademark protect words, names, symbols, sounds,
or colors that distinguish goods and services. The roar of the MGM lion
and the shape of a Coca-Cola bottle are also trademarks. |
2
1907 Emil
Haefely obtained a patent for a method of wrapping electrical
conductors. |
3
1979 Radio
City Music Hall was trademark
registered. |
4
1933 William
Coolidge obtained a patent for the X-ray
tube - popularly called the 'Coolidge tube.' |
5
1988 "What's
Up Doc?" was trademark
registered. |
6
1904 Patent
#764,166 was granted to Albert Gonzales for a "railway
switch." |
7
1989 Warner
Brothers registered
"Batman" a movie based on a popular cartoon character. |
8
1873
Anna Nichols became the first woman patent examiner. A patent
provides the exclusive rights to make, use, import, sell and offer for
sale an invention for up to 20 years. |
9
1968
A patent for the "Portable Beam Generator," also known as a hand-held laser
ray gun, was granted to the inventor, Frederick R. Schollhammer. It was
patent #3,392,261. |
10
1847
The Rotary Printing
Press was patented by Richard Hoe. |
11
1893 HOOD'S
Sarsaparilla CIH & CO Compound Extract was trademark registered.
1990 Bill Atkinson, the inventor of HyperCard
software, left Apple
Computers along with Andy Hertzfeld (co-inventor of the Apple Macintosh)
and started a new company called General Magic. |
12
1927 "Green
Giant" Great Big Tender
Peas
was trademark registered. |
13
1836 Patent
Numbering begins. A patent
provides the exclusive rights to make, use, import, sell and offer for
sale an invention for up to 20 years. |
14
1885 Sarah
Goode became the 1st black woman to receive a U.S. patent, for a folding
cabinet bed |
15
1975 Detroit
Tigers
trademark
registered.
1985 Aldus
PageMaker, the first desktop publishing program, was first shipped
for sale to consumers. The new software created by Paul Brainard began
the era of desktop publishing. |
16
1878
Thaddeus Hyatt was granted a patent for reinforced
concrete, however, reinforced concrete was actually invented several
years earlier in France. |
17
1888 Granville
Woods received a patent for the "tunnel construction for electric railways." |
18
1950 Sobin,
Finlay, and Kane were issued a patent for producing terramycin,
an antibiotic. |
19
1921 "Breyers"
Ice
Cream was trademark registered. |
20
1865 Patent
Act of 1865 directed the Commissioner of Patents to turn over patent
fees to the Treasury and meet expenses through Congressional appropriations. |
21
1875
Mark Twain's
"The Adventure
of Tom Sawyer" was registered.
1984 The first robot-related fatality in
the United States occured when a factory robot
in Jackson, Michigan, crushed a 34-year-old worker against a safety bar. |
22
1873 Louis
Pasteur received a patent for the manufacture of beer and treatment
of yeast. His "germ theory of disease" was one of the most important discoveries
in medical history. |
23
1906
"America the Beautiful" was registered by Katharine Lee Bates.
1872 Jonathan
Hoyt patented a
lamp, seven years after Warren De la Rue made the first known attempt
to produce an incandescent lightbulb. |
24
1956
Patent for Oral Penicillin
was obtained by Ernst Brandl and Hans Margreiter. Penicillin was one of
the first and still one of the most widely used antibiotic agents - derived
from the Penicillium mold. |
25
1876 Emily
Tassey was granted a patent for an apparatus for raising sunken
vessels |
26
1994 Design
Patent #349,137
for a toy
bear was granted to Josef Gottstein. |
27
1960
The first episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" was registered.
1921 Canadian scientists Frederick Banting
and Charles Best first isolated insulin and within a year, the first human
sufferers of diabetes
were receiving insulin treatments. |
28
1885
The "ready
light" or taper was patented by John Mitchell. |
29
1997 Design
Patent #381,781 for a
swimming pool
leaf and debris removal
net was granted to Ross Clay. |
30
1933 The
"Monopoly"
board game
was registered. Charles Darrow, became the first millionaire game designer
after he sold his patent to Parker Brothers, however, there was a controversy
behind the invention of the game. |
31
1790 Samuel
Hopkins was issued the 1st U.S.
patent
for manufacturing potash. |
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