Historical first patents : the first United States patent for many everyday things / by Travis Brown.
Presents the earliest patents for many everyday items and the stories of the inventions.
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Metuchen, N.J. :
Scarecrow Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- AC induction motor
- Adding machine
- Addressograph
- Air brake
- Air conditioning
- Airplane
- Aluminum manufacturing
- Ammonia process
- Anesthesia
- Artificial limb
- Atomic reactor
- Automobile
- Bakelite
- Barbed wire
- Beehive
- Bicycle
- Billiard ball
- Bottle cap
- Bridge caisson
- Cable car
- Calculator
- Cannon
- Carborundum
- Carpet loom
- Clock
- Color film
- Condensed milk
- Cotton gin
- Cyclotron
- Design patent
- Diesel engine
- Dirigible
- Dynamite
- Electric motor
- Electric welder
- Elevator
- Ethyl gasoline
- Fertilizer
- First patent in America
- FM radio
- Frozen food
- Glass bottles
- Guncotton
- Gyroscope
- Halftone printing plate
- Helicopter
- Hydroplane
- Incandescent lamp
- Instant photography
- Internal combustion engine
- Jet engine
- Laser
- Lathe
- Linotype
- Lock
- Machine gun
- Magnetic tape recorder
- Motion picture
- Number one
- Nylon
- Phonograph
- Phonograph records
- Plant patent no. 1
- Plow
- Presidential patent
- Printing press
- Radio
- Reaper
- Revolver
- Rocket
- Roll-film camera
- Sewing machine
- Smokeless gunpowder
- Steel manufacture
- Submarine
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Television
- Transistor
- Triode vacuum tube
- Typewriter
- Vulcanized rubber
- Xerography
- Zipper.