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US
Patent No. 1 - (1836) (The
very first US Patent?)
"The
advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity,
and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human
improvement must end." -- Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner
of Patents, 1843 Wrong, oh so
very wrong!! Since
then there have been more than 7,000,000 US patents
issued-including the computer, laser, TV, car, plane, cotton gin,
corn harvester, farm tractor, oil well, credit card, telephone,
paper clip, zipper, radio, microwave oven, computer, Internet,
robot, dynamite, smokeless gunpowder, machine gun, repeating
rifle, A bomb, nuclear reactor, solar panel, wind turbine, oil
refinery, interstate highway, diesel engine, gasoline engine,
electric engine, jet engine, space rocket, spaceman, spacewoman,
space animals, spaceship, satellite, remote control, mobile
phone, smartphone, fiber optic cable, virtual reality, 3D, CD,
8-track, casette, VHS, VCR, DVD, GPS, iPod, iPad, joystick,
digital camera, TiVo, DVR, pill, aspirin, Lipitor, polio vaccine,
smallpox vaccine, flu vaccine, artificial heart, artificial
joint, organ transplant, pacemaker, fax, printer, and light bulb,
just to name some of the top ones, and so many, many more.)
US
Pat. No. 6469 – Abraham Lincoln
(The
only President to ever receive a patent)
US
Pat. No. 223,898 – Edison Light Bulb
(The
world’s best known invention.)
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