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174,465
Significant
Historical Patents
of the
United States
by Jim Bieberich, Patent Historian
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| Significant Historical Patents of the
by Jim Bieberich, Patent Historian |
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| Patent # | Type | Granted | Claims | Inventor | Description |
| X000001 | U | 07/31/1790 | 1 | Samuel Hopkins | First U.S. Patent Pot Ash |
| X000072 | U | 03/14/1794 | 1 | Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin Cotton Gin |
| X000177 | U | 06/26/1797 | 1 | Charles Newbold | Cast Iron Plough Cast Iron Plough |
| X008277 | U | 06/21/1834 | 1 | Cyrus H. McCormick | Reaper Reaper |
| X009430 | U | 02/25/1836 | 8 | Samuel Colt | Revolver Revolving Gun |
| 1 | U | 07/13/1836 | 3 | J. Ruggles | First Numbered Patent Traction Wheels |
| 132 | U | 02/25/1837 | 1 | Thomas Davenport | Electric Motor Electric Motor |
| 169 | U | 04/20/1837 | 6 | Erastus B. Bigelow | Power Carpet Loom Loom |
| 1,304 | U,d | 08/29/1839 | 9 | Samuel Colt | Revolver Improvement in Fire-Arms and in the Apparatus Used Therewith |
| 1,647 | U | 06/20/1840 | 9 | Samuel F. B. Morse | Morse Code Improvement in the Mode of Communicating Information by Signals by the Application of Electro-Magnetism |
| 3,633 | U | 06/15/1844 | 3 | Charles Goodyear | Vulcanized Rubber Improvement in India-Rubber Fabrics |
| 4,750 re 1,154 | U R | 09/10/1846 03/19/1861 | 5 8 | Elias Howe, Jr. | Sewing Machine Improvement in Sewing-Machines Sewing Machine Improvement in Sewing-Machines |
| 4,834 | U | 11/04/1846 | 3 | Benjamin Franklin Palmer | Artificial Limb Artificial Leg |
| 4,848 | U | 11/12/1846 | 1 | Charles T. Jackson William T. G. Morton | Anesthesia Improvement In Surgical Operations |
| 4,874 | U | 12/05/1846 | 1 | Christian Frederick Schonbein | Guncotton Improvement in Preparation of Cotton-Wool and Other Substances as Substitutes for Gunpowder |
| 5,199 | U | 07/24/1847 | 4 | Richard M. Hoe | Rotary Printing Press Improvement in Rotary Printing-Presses |
| 6,281 | U | 04/10/1849 | 1 | Walter Hunt | Safety Pin Dress-Pin |
| 9,300 | U | 10/05/1852 | 5 | Lorenzo L. Langstroth | Beehive Beehive |
| 13,661 | U | 10/09/1855 | 2 | Isaac M. Singer | Shuttle Sewing Machine Improvement In Sewing-Machines |
| 15,553 | U | 08/19/1856 | 1 | Gail Borden, Jr. | Condensed Milk Improvement in Concentration of Milk |
| 17,628 | U | 06/23/1857 | 1 | William Kelly | Iron and Steel Manufacturing Improvement in the Manufacture of Iron |
| 26,196 | U | 11/22/1859 | 1 | James J. Mapes | Artificial Fertilizer Improvement in Fertilizers |
| 31,128 | U | 01/15/1861 | 4 | Elisha Graves Otis | Elevator Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus |
| 31,278 | U | 01/29/1861 | 8 | Linus Yale, Jr. | Lock Lock |
| 36,836 | U | 11/04/1862 | 5 | Richard J. Gatling | Machine Gun Improvement in Revolving Battery-Guns |
| 59,915 | U | 11/20/1866 | 1 | Pierre Lallement | Bicycle Improvement in Velocipedes |
| 78,317 | U,a | 05/26/1868 | 1 | Alfred Nobel | Dynamite Improved Explosive Compound |
| 79,265 | U | 06/23/1868 | 5 | C. Latham Sholes Carlos Glidden Samuel W. Soule | Typewriter Improvement in Type-Writing Machines |
| 79,965 | U | 07/14/1868 | 3 | Alvin J. Fellows | Spring Tape Measure Improvement in Tape Measures |
| 91,145 | U | 06/08/1869 | 3 | Ives W. McGaffey | Vacuum Cleaner Improved Sweeping-Machine |
| 110,971 | U | 01/17/1871 | 4 | Andrew Smith Hallidie | Cable Car Improvement in Endless-Wire-Rope Ways |
| 135,245 | U | 01/28/1873 | 1 | Louis Pasteur | Pasteurization Brewing Beer and Ale |
| 157,124 | U | 11/24/1874 | 1 | Joseph F. Glidden | Barbed Wire Improvement in Wire-Fences |
| 174,465 | U | 03/07/1876 | 5 | Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone Improvement In Telegraphy |
| 194,047 | U | 08/14/1877 | 6 | Nicolaus August Otto | Internal Combustion Engine Improvement in Gas-Motor Engines |
| 200,521 | U | 02/19/1878 | 4 | Thomas Alva Edison | Phonograph Improvement in Phonograph or Speaking Machines |
| 223,898 | U,c | 01/27/1880 | 4 | Thomas Alva Edison | First Incandescent Light Electric Lamp |
| 224,573 | U | 02/17/1880 | 5 | Emile Berliner | Microphone Microphone |
| 237,664 | U | 02/08/1881 | 2 | Frederic E. Ives | Halftone Printing Plate Method of Producing Impressions in Line or Stipple from Photographic Negatives |
| 304,272 | U | 08/26/1884 | 15 | Ottmar Mergenthaler | Linotype Matrix-Making Machine |
| 347,140 | U | 08/10/1886 | 8 | Elihu Thomson | Electric Welder Apparatus for Electric Welding |
| 371,496 | U | 10/11/1887 | 22 | Dorr E. Felt | Adding Machine Adding-Machine |
| 372,786 | U | 11/08/1887 | 3 | Emile Berliner | Phonograph Record Gramophone |
| 373,064 | U | 11/15/1887 | 1 | Carl Gassner, Jr. | Dry Cell Battery Galvanic Battery |
| 382,280 | U | 05/01/1888 | 1 | Nikola Tesla | A. C. Induction Motor Electrical Transmission of Power |
| 388,116 | U | 08/21/1888 | 44 | William S. Burroughs | Calculator Calculating-Machine |
| 388,850 | U | 09/04/1888 | 41 | George Eastman | Roll Film Camera Camera |
| 395,782 | U | 01/08/1889 | 2 | Herman Hollerith | Computer Art of Compiling Statistics |
| 400,664 | U | 04/02/1889 | 2 | Charles M. Hall | Aluminum Manufacture Process of Reducing Aluminum from its Fluoride Salts by Electrolysis |
| 430,212 | U | 06/17/1890 | 3 | Hiram Stevens Maxim | Smokeless Gunpowder Manufacture of Explosives |
| 468,226 | U | 02/02/1892 | 4 | William Painter | Bottle Cap Bottle-Sealing Device |
| 492,767 | U | 02/28/1893 | 9 | Edward G. Acheson | Carborundum Production of Artificial Crystalline Carbonaceous Materials |
| 493,426 | U | 03/14/1893 | 13 | Thomas Alva Edison | Motion Picture Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects |
| 504,038 | U | 08/29/1893 | 7 | Whitcomb L. Judson | Zipper Clasp Locker or Unlocker for Shoes |
| 549,160 | U | 11/05/1895 | 6 | George B. Selden | Automobile Road-Engine |
| 558,936 | U | 04/28/1896 | 9 | Joseph S. Duncan | Addressograph Addressing-Machine |
| 586,193 re 11,913 | U R,d | 07/13/1897 06/04/1901 | 56 24 | Guglielmo Marconi | Radio Transmitting Electrical Signals Radio Transmitting Electrical Impulses and Signals and Apparatus Therefor |
| 589,168 re 12,192 | U R | 08/13/1897 01/12/1904 | 6 2 | Thomas A. Edison | Motion Picture Camera Kinetographic Camera Motion Picture Film Kinetoscopic Film |
| 608,845 | U | 08/09/1898 | 9 | Rudolf Diesel | Diesel Engine Internal-Combustion Engine |
| 621,195 | U | 03/14/1899 | 4 | Ferdinand Graf Zepplin | Dirigible Navigable Balloon |
| 644,077 | U | 02/27/1900 | 1 | Felix Hoffmann | Aspirin Acetyl Salicylic Acid |
| 661,619 | U | 11/13/1900 | 3 | Valdemar Poulsen | Magnetic Tape Recorder Method of Recordings and Reproducing Sounds or Signals |
| 708,553 | U | 09/09/1902 | 4 | John P. Holland | Submarine Submarine Boat |
| 745,157 | U | 11/24/1903 | 24 | Clyde J. Coleman | Electric Starter Means for Operating Motor-Vehicles |
| 766,768 | U | 08/02/1904 | 89 | Michael J. Owens | Automatic Glass Bottle Manufacturing Glass-Shaping Machine |
| 808,897 | U | 02/02/1906 | 5 | Willis H. Carrier | Air Conditioning Apparatus for Treating Air |
| 821,393 | U | 05/22/1906 | 18 | Orville Wright Wilbur Wright | Airplane Flying-Machine |
| 841,387 | U | 01/15/1907 | 6 | Lee De Forest | Triode Vacuum Tube Device for Amplifying Feeble Electrical Currents |
| 942,809 | U | 12/07/1909 | 8 | Leo H. Baekeland | Bakelite Condensation Product and Method of Making Same |
| 971,501 | U | 09/27/1910 | 6 | Fritz Haber Robert Le Rossignol | Ammonia Production Production of Ammonia |
| 1,005,186 | U | 10/10/1911 | 6 | Henry Ford | Automotive Transmission Transmission Mechanism |
| 1,008,577 | U | 11/14/1911 | 7 | Ernst F. W. Alexanderson | High Frequency Generator High-Frequency Alternator |
| 1,030,178 | U | 06/18/1912 | 7 | Peter Cooper Hewitt | Mercury Vapor Lamp Apparatus for the Electrical Production of Light |
| 1,082,933 | U,d | 12/30/1913 | 34 | William D. Coolidge | Tungsten Filament Light Bulb Tungsten and Method of Making the Same for Use as Filaments of Incandescent Electric Lamps and for Other Purposes |
| 1,102,653 | U | 07/07/1914 | 8 | Robert H. Goddard | Rocket Rocket Apparatus |
| 1,113,149 | U | 10/06/1914 | 18 | Edwin H. Armstrong | Wireless Receiver Wireless Receiving System |
| 1,115,674 | U | 11/03/1914 | 1 | Mary P. Jacob | Brassiere Brassiere |
| 1,180,159 | U | 04/18/1916 | 13 | Irving Langmuir | Gas Filled Electric Lamp Incandescent Electric Lamp |
| 1,203,495 | U | 10/31/1916 | 33 | William D. Coolidge | X-Ray Tube Vacuum Tube |
| 1,279,471 | U | 09/17/1918 | 64 | Elmer A. Sperry | Gyroscopic Compass Gyroscopic Compass |
| 1,413,121 | U | 04/18/1922 | 5 | John Arthur Johnson | Adjustable Wrench Wrench |
| 1,420,609 | U | 06/20/1922 | 26 | Glenn H. Curtiss | Hydroplane Hydroaeroplane |
| 1,573,846 | U | 02/23/1926 | 21 | Thomas Midgley, Jr. | Ethyl Gasoline Method and Means for Using Motor Fuels |
| 1,773,080 | U | 08/12/1930 | 2 | Clarence Birdseye | Frozen Food |
| 1,773,980 | U | 08/26/1930 | 18 | Philo T. Farnsworth | Television Television System |
| 1,848,389 | U | 03/08/1932 | 15 | Igor Sikorsky | Helicopter Aircraft, Especially Aircraft of the Direct Lift Amphibian Type and Means of Constructing and Operating The Same |
| 1,941,066 | U | 12/26/1933 | 10 | Edwin H. Armstrong | FM Radio Radio Signaling System |
| 1,948,384 | U | 02/20/1934 | 17 | Ernest O. Lawrence | Cyclotron Method and Apparatus for the Acceleration of Ions |
| 2,021,907 | U | 11/26/1935 | 4 | Vladimir K. Zworykin | Television Method of and Apparatus for Producing Images of Objects |
| 2,059,884 | U | 11/03/1936 | 20 | Leopold D. Mannes Leopold Godowsky, Jr. | Color Film Color Photography |
| 2,071,250 | U | 02/16/1937 | 28 | Wallace H. Carothers | Nylon Linear Condensation Polymers |
| 2,153,729 | U | 04/11/1939 | 5 | Ernest H. Volwiler Donalee L. Tabern | Pentothal (General Anesthetic) Thiobarbituric Acid Derivatives |
| 2,206,634 | U | 07/02/1940 | 7 | Enrico Fermi Edoardo Amaldi Bruno Pontecorvo Franco Rasetti Emilio Segre | Radioactive Isotopes Process for the Production of Radioactive Substances |
| 2,297,691 | U | 10/06/1942 | 27 | Chester F. Carlson | Xerography Electrophotography |
| 2,329,074 | U | 09/07/1943 | 6 | Paul Muller | DDT - Insecticide Devitalizing Composition of Matter |
| 2,404,334 | U | 07/16/1946 | 15 | Frank Whittle | Jet Engine Aircraft Propulsion System and Power Unit |
| 2,451,804 | U | 10/19/1948 | 23 | Donald L. Campbell Homer Z. Martin Eger V. Murphree Charles W. Tyson | Fluid Catalytic Cracking Method of and Apparatus for Contacting Solids and Gases |
| 2,524.035 | U,c | 10/03/1950 | 40 | John Bardeen Walter H. Brattain | Transistor Three-Electrode Circuit Element Utilizing Semiconductor Materials |
| 2,543,181 | U | 02/27/1951 | 116 | Edwin H. Land | Instant Photography Photographic Product Comprising a Rupturable Container Carrying a Photographic Processing Liquid |
| 2,569,347 | U | 09/25/1951 | 34 | William Shockley | Junction Transistor Circuit Element Utilizing Semiconductive Material |
| 2,668,661 | U | 02/09/1954 | 48 | George R. Stibitz | Modern Digital Computer Complex Computer |
| 2,682,050 | U | 06/22/1954 | 13 | Andrew Alford | Radio Navigation System Localizer Antenna System |
| 2,682,235 | U | 12/12/1951 | 13 | Richard Buckminster Fuller | Geodesic Dome Building Construction |
| 2,691,028 | U | 10/05/1954 | 7 | Frank B. Colton | First Oral Contraceptive Estradiene Compounds |
| 2,699,054 | U | 01/11/1955 | 18 | Lloyd H. Conover | Tetracycline Tetracycline |
| 2,708,656 | U,c | 05/17/1955 | 8 | Enrico Fermi Leo Szilard | Atomic Reactor Neutronic Reactor |
| 2,708,722 | U | 05/17/1955 | 34 | An Wang | Magnetic Core Memory Pulse Transfer Controlling Devices |
| 2,717,437 | U | 09/13/1955 | 4 | George De Mestral | Velcro Velvet Type Fabric and Method of Producing Same |
| 2,816,721 | U | 12/17/1957 | 4 | R. J. Taylor | Rocket Engine Rocket Powered Aerial Vehicle |
| 2,835,548 | U | 05/20/1958 | 9 | Robert C. Baumann | Satellite Satellite Structure |
| 2,866,012 | U | 12/23/1958 | 4 | Charles P. Ginsburg Shelby F. Henderson | Video Tape Recorder Magnetic Tape Recording and Reproducing System |
| 2,879,439 | U | 12/28/1958 | 10 | Charles H. Townes | Maser Production of Electromagnetic Energy |
| 2,929,922 | U | 03/22/1960 | 11 | Arthur L. Shawlow Charles H. Townes | Laser Masers and Maser Communication System |
| 2,956,114 | U,c | 10/11/1960 | 8 | Charles P. Ginsburg Shelby F. Henderson | Wideband Magnetic Tape System Broad Band Magnetic Tape System and Method |
| 2,981,877 | U | 04/25/1961 | 10 | Robert N. Noyce | Semiconductor Device-And-Lead Structure Semiconductor Device-And-Lead Structure |
| 3,093,346 | U | 06/11/1963 | 17 | Maxime A. Faget Andre J. Meyer, Jr. Robert G. Chilton William S. Blanchard, Jr. Alan B. Kehlet Jerome B. Hammack Caldwell C. Johnson, Jr. | First Manned Space Capsule-Mercury Space Capsule |
| 3,118,022 | U | 01/14/1964 | 6 | Gerhard M. Sessler James E. West | Electret Microphone Electroacoustic Transducer |
| 3,156,523 | U | 11/10/1964 | 12 | Glenn T. Seaborg | Americium (Element 95) Element 95 and Method of Producing Said Element |
Key:
Patent #: The patent number assigned by the U.S. Patent Office
Type: U=Utility R=Reissue D=Design T=Trademark NA=Not Available, a=assignment, d=disclaimer, c=correction
Granted: The day the Patent Office granted the patent
Claims: The number legal claims inventor makes for protect him invention
Inventor: Name of inventor(s) to whom the patent was granted
Description: Commonly known invention name is listed in red. The actual invention name is listed in blue.
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