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September's Inventions - Famous Trademarks,
Copyrights, and Patents |
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1486 The
first known copyright
was granted in Venice. |
2
1992
The Southern California Gas Company purchased the first motor vehicles
powered by natural gas. |
3
1940 A
patent for the production of diuretics
was obtained by Bockmuhl, Middendorf and Fritzsche. |
4
1888 George
Eastman patented the roll film camera - Kodak. |
5
1787 The
constitutional clause
concerning
patents and copyrights was adopted
by the constitutional convention in 1787. |
6
1988 Combined
Cap & Baseball Mitt
Patent #4,768,232
was granted. |
7
1948 Patent
# 2,448,908 was granted to Louis Parker for a television
receiver. His "intercarrier sound system" is now used in all television
receivers in the world. Without it TV receivers would not work as well
and would be more costly. |
8
1868
William Hinds patented a candlestick.
1994 Microsoft gave Windows
95 its name, previously, the operating system had been referred to
by its code name of "Chicago". |
9
1886 Ten
countries, not including
the U.S. joined
the Berne Convention for the protection
of literary and artistic works. |
10
1891
The song "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E"
by Henry J.
Sayers was registered.
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant
and a convicted murderer, became the last person executed with the guillotine. |
11
1900
A motor vehicle patent was granted
to Francis
and Freelan Stanley. |
12
1961 Patent
#3,000,000 was granted for an automatic reading system for utilities to
Kenneth Eldredge. |
13
1870
Patent #107,304 was granted to Daniel C. Stillson for a "wrench"
(improved monkey wrench.) |
14
1993 "The
Simpsons" television show was registered by Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation. |
15
1968 An
Wang obtained a patent for a calculating apparatus, a basic component
of computer technology. |
16
1857 The
words & music to "Jingle
Bells"
was registered
by Oliver Ditson and Co. under the title One Horse Open Sleigh. |
17
1918 Elmer
Sperry received a patent for the gyrocompass,
essential to modern ship navigation. |
18
1915 Louisa
May Alcott's book,
"Little Women"
(first published October 3, 1868) was registered.
1984 Software Arts and VisiCorp settled
their lawsuit over VisiCalc, the
first spreadsheet program. VisiCalc, invented in 1979, was the first "hot-selling
software product" for the personal computer. |
19
1876 Melville
Bissell patented a carpet-sweeper. |
20
1938 Patent
#2,130,948 was granted for "synthetic fiber" (nylon) to Wallace
H. Carothers. |
21
1993 Baseball
Batting Apparatus - patent #5,246,226 was granted. |
22
1992
Poolside Basketball Game
- Patent #5,149,086, was granted.
1791 Michael
Faraday was born. Michael Faraday was best known for his discoveries
of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis - his biggest
breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor. |
23
1930
Johannes Ostermeier was issued a patent for the flash
bulb. |
24
1877 Fire
destroyed many models in the Patent Office, but the important records were
saved.
1852 A new invention, the dirigible
or airship was first demonstrated. |
25
1959 The
song "Do-Re-Mi" from the "Sound of Music" by Rodger and Hammerstein was
registered.
1956 The first transatlantic telephone
cable went into operation. |
26
1961
Patent for an aerial capsule (satellite)
emergency separation device was obtained by Maxime Faget and Andre Meyer. |
27
1977 Anacleto
Montero Sanchez
received a
patent for a "hypodermic syringe." |
28
1979 Pilot
episode of the TV series M*A*S*H was registered.
1925 Seymour Cray the inventor of the Cray
I super computer was
born. |
29
1998 A
hand controller for a video
game was patented as Design Patent #398,938. |
30
1997 A
roller skate
was invented
by Hui-Chin from Taiwan, patent #5,671,931.
1452 The first book was published,
Johann Guttenberg's Bible. |
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