A listing of
famous and not-so-famous historical innovations
that
occurred in
Science and Technology during this month. |
May |
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1888-Patent # 382,280 issued to
Nikola Tesla for the "electrical transmission
of power"
1964-First BASIC program was Invented by professors John G. Kemeny
and Thomas E. Kurtz |
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1947-James Dyson, vacuum cleaner
inventor, born in Norfolk, England
1843-Elijah McCoy inventor of railroad lubrication system born
in Colchester, Ontario, Canada |
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1937-Margaret Mitchell
wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" |
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1869-Patent # 89,794 isssued to T.F. Rowland
for the first offshore oil-drilling rig |
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1809-Mary Kies, first
women to get a patent. Obtained for "weaving straw with silk or thread"
1885-Patent # 317,049
issued to George Eastman for roll film |
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1937-The
dirigible The
Hindenburg burned while landing at the naval air station at Lakehurst,
N.J. |
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1909-Edwin Herbert Land inventor of the Polaroid camera born in Bridgeport, Connecticut |
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1886-John Pemberton
sold the first gallon of Coca-Cola syrup to Jacob’s Pharmacy
1894-Patent # 519,347
issued to Michael Idvorsky Pupin for the
Pupin Inductance Coil |
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1850- Edward Weston inventor of precision
electronical measuring instruments, born |
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1920-John Wesley Hyatt inventor and pioneer
of the plastics industry who discovered the process for making
celluloid, died |
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1946-Robert Koffler Jarvik surgeon who
invented the Jarvik-7, the first artificial heart , born |
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1903-Patent # 727,650 issued to
Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde for the refrigerator |
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1958-VELCRO trademark registered |
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1892-Trademark application for COCA-COLA filed. Reg No.
0022406 |
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1861-Frank Hornby inventor of the Meccano
construction set and "Dinky" toys, born |
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1861-Irving W Colburn inventor of the
process ffor mass roduction of window glass, born |
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1749-Edward Jenner inventor of the
smallpox vaccine born in Gloucestershire, England |
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1838-Seth Wheeler inventor of toilet paper
born in Chatham, New York
1925-DUM DUMS lollipop trademark registered |
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1987-Patent # 4,666,425 issued to Chet
Fleming for an apparatus that keeps a head alive |
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1873-Patent # 139,121 issued to Jacob Davis
and Levi Strauss for blue jeans |
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1921-Taggart Baking Company of Indianapolis
introduced Wonder bread
1940-Patent # 2,201,689 issued to Walt
Disney for a Multiplane Camera |
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1849-Patent # 6,469 issued to
Abraham Lincoln
for a device for buoying vessels over shoals
1906-Patent # 821,393 issued to Orville Wright and
Wilbur Wright for
the airplane |
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1930-Patent Act of 1930 permits patenting of
certain plants to help American culture |
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1686-Daniel G. Fahrenheit best known for
developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale, born |
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1948-Andrew Moyer is granted a patent for a
method of mass production of penicillin |
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1868-Patent
# 78,317 issued to
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
for dynamite |
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1952-PEZ name Trademarked, Reg. No. 0559256 |
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1738-Joseph Ignace Guillotin inventor of the
guillotine, born |
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1826-Ebenezer Butterick regarded as the
inventor of graded paper patterns for clothing, born |
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1790-First Federal Copyright bill was
enacted |
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1910-Elizabeth Blackwell considered the
first female doctor of medicine in modern times, died |
DID YOU KNOW?
- May is the fifth month of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length
of 31 days.
- Cinco de Mayo (celebrated on May 5)
- The second Sunday in May is Mother's Day in the
United States
- Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -
celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
- In the United States, Memorial Day, a public
holiday, is on May 30, but observed on the last Monday in May.
- May's birthstone is the emerald
- May in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal
equivalent to November in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
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