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The Patent Act of July 4, 1836, required that
all patents issued, after this date, be assiged a sequential
number beginning with the number 1. During the period patents
were issued from 1 to 3,930,270. The USPTO database can only be
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U.S.
Patent
Number |
Date
Granted |
Inventor (s) |
Description
Common in bold. Patent in
CAPS. |
| 1 |
07.13.1836 |
John Ruggles |
First Numbered
Patent
TRACTION WHEELS |
| 6,469 |
05.22.1849 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Vessel
Bellows
BUOYING VESSELS OVER SHOALS |
| 16,082 |
11.11.1856 |
Henry Bessemer |
Bessemer Furnace
MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND STEEL |
| 18,929 |
04.13.1869 |
George
Westinghouse |
air brake
system
STEAM POWER BRAKE |
| 78,317 |
05.26.1868 |
Alfred Nobel |
dynamite
IMPROVED EXPLOSIVE COMPOUND |
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79,265 |
06.23.1868 |
Christopher Latham Sholes |
typewriter
TYPE-WRITING MACHINE |
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139,121 |
05.20.1873 |
Jacob
Davis and Levi Strauss |
blue jeans
FASTENING POCKET-OPENINGS |
| 174,465 |
03.07.1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
telephone
IMPROVEMENT IN TELEGRAPHY |
| 194,047 |
08.14.1877 |
Nicolaus Otto |
internal
cmbustion engine
GAS-MOTOR ENGINES |
| 223,898 |
01.27.1880 |
Thomas Alva Edison |
light bulb
ELECTRIC-LAMP |
| 382,280 |
05.01.1888 |
Nikola
Tesla |
alternating circuit
transmission
ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION OF POWER |
| 549,160 |
11.05.1895 |
George Seldon |
automoble engine 2
stroke
ROAD-ENGINE |
| 640,167 |
01.02.1900 |
Louis Allard |
First 20th Century
Patent Issued
WASHING MACHINE |
|
808,897 |
01.02.1906 |
Willis Haviland Carrier |
air conditioner
APPARATUS FOR TREATING AIR |
| 821,393 |
05.22.1906 |
Orville Wright
& Wilbur Wright |
airplane
FLYING MACHINE |
| 942,699 |
12.07.1909 |
Leo Baekeland |
Bakelite®
FIRST SYNTHETIC PLASTIC |
| 1,102,653
|
07.07.1914 |
Robert Goddard |
rocket,
liquid-fueled
ROCKET APPARATUS |
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1,773,980 |
08.26.1930 |
Philo Taylor Farnsworth |
television
TELEVISION SYSTEM |
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2,297,691. |
10.06.1942 |
Chester Carlson |
xerography
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY |
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2,524,035 |
10.03.1950 |
J. Bardeen and W. Brattain |
transistor
THREE ELECTRODE CIRCUIT ELEMENT
UTILIZING SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS |
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