| A listing of
famous and not-so-famous historical innovations that
occurred in
Science and Technology during this month. |
December |
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1925-Mr. Peanut trademark reigester to
Planters Nut Company. Reg. No. 0206415
1959-Barbie®
Doll trademark registered by
Mattel, Inc., Reg. No. 0689055 |
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1952-Patent # 2,620,061 issued to Oskar Uxa
for the first
PEZ candy dispenser
1969-Patent # 3,482,037 granted to Marie V.B. Brown
for a home security system |
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1753-Samuel Crompton inventor of the
spinning mule born in Firwood, Lancashire, England
1842-Ellen Swallow Richards, first female student and first female
faculty member at MI, born |
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1913-Robert Adler inventor of the TV remote
control born in
Vienna, Austria
1990-Patent # 4,974,982 granted to Thomas Nielson for
a "keyring pocket pen" |
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1901-Walt
Disney inventor of the multiplane camera born in Chicago,
Illinois. |
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1967-Helen
Greiner inventor of the ROOMBA® robot vacuum born in
London, England |
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1909-Patent # 942,699 issued to Leo H. Baekeland for Bakelite a
synthetic plastic
1931-Production of Model-A Ford discontinued |
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1765-Eli Whitney inventor of the cotton gin born in
Westboro, Massachusetts |
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1743-Samuel
Hopkins first inventor granted a U.S. Patent, born in
Baltimore, Maryland
1905-Grace Hopper inventor of the first
computer compiler, born in New York City |
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1815-Ada Lovelace programmer of an early
computer born in London, England
1896-Alfred Nobel
died in Sanremo, Italy. In his honor the Nobel Prize is awarded
on this day |
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1874-James Lewis Kraft inventor of the
pasteurizing process for cheese born in Canada |
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1927-Robert Noyce co-inventor of the
Integrated Circuit born in Burlington, Iowa
1921-Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal |
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1844-John Henry Patterson founder of
National Cash Register Co. born n Dayton, Ohio |
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1852-Patent # 9,477 granted to Cullen
Whipple for a screw making machine |
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1964-Patent # 3,161,861 granted to Kenneth Olsen for
"magnetic core memory"
1979-Chris Haney and Scott Abbott invent a board game called
Trivial Pursuit® |
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1954-First synthetic diamonds were produced
at G,E. Research Labs. by Prof. H. Tracy Hall. |
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1817-Francis Wolle inventor of the
Paper Bag
born in Jacobsburg, Pennsylvania
1903-First controlled flight of an airplane by
Orville Wright
and
Wilbur
Wright |
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1900-Patent # 663,976 issued to
Elijah McCoy
for a lubricator |
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1732-Benjamin Franklin begins publication of
"Poor Richard's Almanack"
1974-Altair 8800 microcomputer was first put
on sale, as a do-it-yourself computer kit, for $397 |
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1880-New York's Broadway lit by electricity,
becomes known as "Great White Way"
1951-The first electricity ever generated by
atomic power began flowing from the EBR-1 |
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1898-Scientists Pierre and
Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium. |
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1885-Patent # 332,762 granted to La Marcus Adna
Thompson for a Roller Coaster |
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1732-Richard Arkwright inventor of a
Mechanized Textile Loom born in Lancashire, England
1900-Reginald
Fessenden communicated speech by electromagnetic waves fifty miles |
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1949-First house, designed by Dr. Maria
Telkes, to be completely solar heated was occupied |
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1906-Ernst Ruska inventor of the electron
microscope born in Heidelberg, Germany |
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1791-Charles Babbage inventor of a
mechanical computing machine born in London, England |
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1822-Louis Pasteur inventor of
pasteurisation born in Dole, France |
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1976-Patent # 4,000,000 granted to Mr.Robert Mendenhall
for a process for recycling asphalt. |
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1800-Charles Goodyear inventor of a process
for "vulcanizing" rubber born in New Haven, CT |
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1924-Arthur K. Melin, founder of WHAM-O Toy
Co., born in Los Angeles, California |
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1935-Patent # 2,026,082 issued to
Charles Darrow for
Monopoly |
DID YOU KNOW?
- December is the twelfth and last month of the
year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months
with the length of 31 days.
- December's birthstones are turquoise, lapis
lazuli, zircon, topaz (blue), or tanzanite.
- December in the Northern Hemisphere is the
seasonal equivalent to June in the Southern Hemisphere and vice
versa.
- December is AIDS Awareness Month
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