1/4 On this day in 1972, Willem Kolff received US Patent No. 3,641,591 for a “Soft shell mushroom shaped heart”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #MedTech

Race to the Telephone: On this day in history, 150 years ago, February 14, 1876, Elisha Gray filed a patent caveat for “Instruments for Transmitting and Receiving Vocal Sounds Telegraphically” on the same day Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent application for “Improvement in Telegraphy.” (1/5)

You probably know this, but the record of one of the major Colt patent cases is available: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/01039...

1/5 On this day, 14 February 1911, John Browning received US Patent No. 984,519 for a “Firearm”, the pistol that would become the Colt M1911. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #JohnBrowning #Colt #M1911

Interior View of the North Hall, United States Patent Office Model Room After the Fire of September 24th, 1877 https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.POB172

1/3 On this day in 1915, Alexander Behm received German Patent No. 282009 for a device to measure sea depth, and even the distance and direction of ships or obstacles, using reflected sound waves. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

Another pop quiz in the #HowOldAmI series: Motorola® started by producing car radios, so it starts with “motor”. “Ola” was a popular ending for trademarks the way “ify” is today The date in the image tells you when it was registered. Can you guess when it was first used in the U.S.?

1/5 On this day in 1969, US Patent No. 3,426,747 was granted to Albert Dale Herman and Herbert “Zeppo” Marx for a “Method and watch mechanism for actuation by a cardiac pulse”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

1/3 On this day in 1890, William Hanlon received US Patent No. 420,995 for a “Beheading Block and Ax”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

OTD in 1863, Alanson Crane received a patent for his fire extinguisher system. It was a bit too late for Lafayette, Indiana which had already issued municipal shinplasters to pay for their new steam fire engine that was pictures on the notes. City of Lafayette, IN, $.05, Nov 25, 1862. 🗃️

1/5 On this day in 1891, US Patent No. 446,054 was granted to Elijah Bond for a “Toy or Game”, the Ouija board in its early, commercial form. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #Ouija

SUPER BOWL® isn’t only what’s on the screen tonight. It’s also a registered trademark of the NFL. Enjoy the game. #TrademarkHistory #Trademarks #SuperSunday #SuperBowl

SUPER SUNDAY® isn’t just a tradition. It’s also a registered trademark of the NFL. Enjoy the Super Bowl. #TrademarkHistory #Trademarks #SuperSunday #SuperBowl

1/3 On this day in 1945, IBM filed the patent application that would later granted as US Patent No. 2,616,626, titled simply “Calculator”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #ComputingHistory #IBM

1/3 On this day in 1871, US Patent No. 111,667 was granted to James Beall Morrison for an “Improvement in Dental Engines”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents Image Credit: E. Bacon, Science Museum Group, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

1/3 On this day in 1883, German Patent No. 20815 was granted to Karl F. A. Wienke of Rostock for a “Corkscrew with one-armed lever”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

1/4 On this day in 1894, US Patent No. 514,200 was granted to William Painter for a “Capped-bottle opener”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

#OnThisDay 5th February 1831 Patent No. 5974 of 1830 - for a continuous still - is granted to Aeneas Coffey of Dock Distillery, Dublin. #WhiskyHistory

A View of the Patent Office Building https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.POB31

1/4 On this Day in 1974, US Patent No. 3,789,832 was granted to Raymond Damadian for an “Apparatus and method for detecting cancer in tissue”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

1/5 On 4 February 1941, U.S. Patent No. 2,230,654 was granted to Roy Plunkett for “Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers”. It is the patent behind Teflon. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #DuPont #Teflon

1/6 On this day in 1914, US Patent No. 1,085,971 was granted to Willis Carrier for a “Method of humidifying air and controlling the humidity and temperature thereof”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

1/3 On this day in 1987, US Patent No. 4,641,349 was granted for an “Iris recognition system”, an early milestone on the road to the modern iris scanner. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

#OnThisDate, 2 Feb 1897, Alfred Cralle was awarded patent 576,395 for an "Ice Cream Mold and Disher." Originally from VA, he ended up in Pittsburgh working in a drug store and hotel. He noticed it was hard for people to scoop #icecream, and decided to solve the problem. #BlackHistory #FoodHistory

Today in #BlackHistoryMonth & my nerdlove of all things post officey. Shout out to inventor Philip B. Downing who invented the first mailbox in 1891 📬 Like all great inventors (and ordinary decent people), he saw a need and he filled it 💌 theblackwallsttimes.com/2022/02/18/b...

[February 2nd, 1926] Herbert W Becker's patent is granted for Ink remover

1/7 On 2 February 1892, William Painter received US Patent No. 468,226 for a “Bottle-Sealing Device”, the crown cork. It was the breakthrough that made bottled beer and soda behave like industrial products, not fragile curiosities. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

1/5 On 30 January 1789, Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet filed an application in the US state of Georgia for an exclusive right to a “newly constructed steam engine”. They obtained their patent later that same year. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

The Welcome Collection had this 1861 patent for 'Cholera Bands' as part of #Cholera Day 🤔 A variety of different devices worn round the abdomen to 'prevent and treat' cholera These were still being issued to British #Army soldiers in India and Macidonia in #WW1 🪖 #heritage #science #health

1/4 On this day in 1893, The Coca-Cola Company obtained U.S. Trademark Reg. No. 22,406 for the mark “Coca-Cola”, used in connection with nutrient or tonic beverages. #OnThisDay #OTD #TrademarkHistory #Trademarks #CocaCola

1/4 On this day in 1883, James Ritty and John Birch were granted US Patent No. 271,363 for a “Cash register and indicator”, one of the earliest cash registers. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C. https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.POB138

[October 14th, 1980] Joseph N. Jackson's patent is granted for the Programmable television receiver controllers

[January 29th, 1946] Edward E Simmons, Jr.'s patent is granted for the Strain gauge

1/3 On 29 January 1886, Carl Benz filed a German patent application for a “Fahrzeug mit Gasmotorenbetrieb”, a vehicle designed to run on a gas engine. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #AutomotiveHistory

29 January 1929: A patent for paper handkerchiefs was submitted by Oskar Rosenfelder for the German firm Tempo. The Jewish-founded company was later aryanised by the Nazis. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/das-tempo-ta...

1/4 On this day in 1947, Richard James received US Patent No. 2,415,012 for a “Toy and process of use”. It is the Slinky. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #Slinky

1/5 Today is International LEGO Day, and it is, at its core, a significant patent anniversary. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #LEGO #InternationalLEGODay

1/3 On this day in 1880, Thomas Edison received US Patent No. 223,898 for an “Electric Lamp”. This was not “the first light bulb”. Howeever, it was the set of design choices that made incandescent lighting practical at scale. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #Edison

1/4 On this day in 1900, Momme Andresen and Ernst Leupold received US Patent No. 641,919 for a “Process of intensifying photographs”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #FilmPhotography

1/4 On this day in 1875, George Green received US Patent No. 159,028 for an “Improvement in electro-magnetic dental tools”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory

Jan. 25, 1926: David Bond, a 19-year-old Black man from rural North Carolina, files a patent for a light on the rear of an automobile to signal turns. He is one of several claimants to have invented the electric turn signal; in 1939, after his patent expires, Ford introduces it.

1/6 On this day, U.S. Patent No. 8,101,402 was granted to Elizabeth Holmes for a “Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery”, which was positioned as a cornerstone for Theranos as a breakthrough health technology company. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #Theranos

A useful reminder that the Enigma machine did not emerge fully formed as a secret weapon. Its origins lie in a published patent, where Arthur Scherbius set out the technical logic of a new electro-mechanical cipher. Innovation first, mythology later. Patents often mark that quiet transition point.

1/5 On this day in 1950, Percy Spencer received US Patent No. 2,495,429 for a “Method of treating foodstuffs”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

#ufosky #Ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - High Velocity High Altitude VTOL Aircraft January 23, 1953 — 1/Lockheed employee Nathan C. Price files a patent for a disc-shaped aircraft capable of landing or taking off vertically.

1/4 On this day in 1940, Irving Naxon, born Irving Nachumsohn, received US Patent 2,187,888 to for a “Cooking apparatus”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #Cholent #CrockPot

A glass tube that you break open to get emergency cash. Patented this week by, apparently, the former chancellor of UW-Madison. US 12527383

1/8 On this day in 1889, the name Coca-Cola appears in US trademark history in a form far removed from today’s brand. #OnThisDay #OTD #TrademarkHistory #Trademarks #CocaCola