This Month in History: 1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented in Massachusetts 1854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair 1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented 1899 George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf...

This Month in History: 1846 Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg 1879 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus 1851 Alvan Clark patents telescope 1930 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their...

1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented in Massachusetts 1854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair 1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented 1805 Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth 1884...

1956 Nobel for physics awarded to William Shockley, Walter H. Brattain and John Bardeen 2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang 1846 Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg...

1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time 1899 J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner 1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed 1856 Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers 2015 Nobel...

1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte, North Carolina 1753 1st steam engine arrives in north American colonies 1839 English scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph 1853 1st electric telegraph used -...

1774 Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state 1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system 1893 Henry Perky patents a machine for the preparation of cereals for food, otherwise known as...

1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine 1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus 1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon trav1872 Doughnut cutter patents granted to John Blondel, Thomaston, Maine 1953 1st helicopter passenger service...

1856 Cullen Whipple patents a machine for making screws 2015 Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital 781 BC Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse 1769 A transit of Venus is followed five hours...

WASHINGTON – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today officially issued U.S. patent number 11 million, recognizing an important milestone in American innovation and ingenuity. “This momentous benchmark is a reminder of the remarkable and enduring...