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July Calendar
Find out what famous event happened on the July Calendar for history concerning patents, trademarks, or copyrights. What famous inventor has the same July birthday as you.
July 1
1952 Silly Putty was trademark registered. 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.July 2
1907 Emil Haefely obtained a patent for a method of wrapping electrical conductors.July 3
1979 The phrase Radio City Music Hall was trademark registered.July 4
1933 William Coolidge obtained a patent for the X-ray tube, popularly called the Coolidge tube.Fourth of July - How Fireworks Work
July 5
1988 The bugs bunny phrase "What's Up Doc?" was trademark registeredJuly 6
1904 Patent #764,166 was granted to Albert Gonzales for a railway switch.July 7
1989 Warner Brothers copyrighted registered "Batman" a movie based on a popular cartoon characterJuly 8
1873 Anna Nichols became the first female patent examiner.July 9
1968 US patent #3,392,261 for the "Portable Beam Generator," also known as a hand-held laser ray gun, was granted to inventor, Frederick R. Schollhammer.July 10
1847 The rotary printing press was patented by Richard Hoe.July 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.
July 12
1927 "Green Giant" Great Big Tender Peas was trademark registeredJuly 13
1836 Patent are now numbered.July 14
1885 Sarah Goode became the first black woman to receive a U.S. patent.July 15
1975 The Detroit Tigers name is trademark registered.1985 Aldus PageMaker, the first desktop publishing program, was first shipped for sale to consumers, invented by Paul Brainard.
July 16
1878 Thaddeus Hyatt was granted a patent for reinforced concrete.July 17
1888 Granville Woods received a patent for the "tunnel construction for electric railways."July 18
1950 Sobin, Finlay, and Kane were issued a patent for producing terramycin, an antibiotic.July 19
1921 The name Breyers Ice Cream was trademark registeredJuly 20
1865 The Patent Act of 1865 directed the Commissioner of Patents to turn over patent fees to the Treasury and meet expenses through Congressional appropriationsJuly 21
1875 Mark Twain's novel "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer" was copyright registered.1984 The first robot-related fatality in the United States occurred when a factory robot in Jackson, Michigan, crushed a 34-year-old worker against a safety bar.
July 22
1873 Louis Pasteur received a patent for the manufacture of beer and treatment of yeast.July 23
1906 The song "America the Beautiful" was copyright registered by Katharine Lee Bates.1872 Jonathan Hoyt patented an improved lamp.
July 24
1956 A patent for an oral form of the antibiotic Penicillin was granted to Ernst Brandl and Hans Margreiter.July 25
1876 Emily Tassey was granted a patent for an apparatus for raising sunken vesselsJuly 26
1994 Design patent #349,137 for a toy teddy bear was granted to Josef GottsteinJuly 27
1960 The first episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" was copyright 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.
