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1966 "Apple Jacks" cereal was trademark registered. |
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1955 Jim Henson's "Kermit the Frog" the first of the Muppets, was copyright registered. |
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1903 Listerine was trademark registered. |
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1862 Richard Gatling received a patent for the machine gun. |
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1901 Henry Ford received a patent for a motor carriage. |
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1928 Colonel Jacob Schick patented the first electric razor. |
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1955 The movie "Guys and Dolls" based on stories by Damon Runyon was copyright registered. |
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1956 Cecile B. Demille's "The Ten Commandments" was copyright registered. |
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1842 George Bruce received the first Design Patent for printing type faces. |
10
1981 The board game "Trivial Pursuit" was registered. |
11
1901 NABISCO was trademark registered. |
12
1940 BATMAN was trademark registered. |
13
1979 Robert Jarvik was granted a patent for an artificial heart. |
14
1973 Patsy Sherman & Samuel Smith obtain a patent for a method for treating carpets, known as Scotchguard. |
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1904 Patent #775,134 was granted to King C. Gillette for a safety 'razor'. |
16
1977 Stephen Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was copyright registered. |
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1891 Emile Berliner was issued a patent for a combined telegraph and telephone. |
18
1952 "ELMER'S" glue was trademark registered. |
19
1901 Granville Woods was issued a patent for a third rail to operate electrified railways. |
20
1923 Patent #1,475,024 was granted to Garrett Morgan for a traffic signal. |
21
1854 Issac Von Bunschoten patented a rosin-oil lamp. |
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1904 Design Patent for the Congressional Medal of Honor was granted to George Gillespie. |
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1898 Andrew Beard was granted a patent for a railway car coupler. |
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1874 Patent #157,124 was granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire fencing. |
25
1975 Robert S. Ledley was granted patent #3,922,522 for "diagnostic X-ray systems" known as CAT-Scans. |
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1895 Russell Penniman received a patent for transparent photographic film. |
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1894 Mildred Lord was granted a patent for a washing machine. |
28
1905 ARM & HAMMER baking soda was trademark registered. |
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1881 Francis Blake was granted a patent for the speaking phone. |
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1858 John Mason patented the screw neck bottle -- the Mason Jar. |
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