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The American effort to bring home German rocket technology in Operation Paperclip, and the bringing of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (who would later sit at the head of a NASA center) stand out in particular. Expendable rockets provided the means for launching artificial satellites, as well as crewed spacecraft.
The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents [ 7 ] relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.
A fly swatter is a hand-held device for swatting and killing flies and other insects. The first modern fly-destruction device was invented in 1900 by Robert R. Montgomery, an entrepreneur based in Decatur, Illinois. [75] On January 9, 1900, Montgomery was issued U.S. patent #640,790 for the "Fly-Killer". [76] 1900 Thumbtack
A. Gas centrifuge; A Manufacturing Language; Abel Axe; Aberdeen chronograph; Abraham Lincoln's patent; Acrylic paint; Active Denial System; Active pen; Active-pixel sensor
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
The history of computing hardware spans the developments from early devices used for simple calculations to today's complex computers, encompassing advancements in both analog and digital technology. The first aids to computation were purely mechanical devices which required the operator to set up the initial values of an elementary arithmetic ...
Unimate was the first industrial robot, [3] which worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey in 1961. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] It was created by George Devol in the 1950s using his original patents.
Samuel Face (1923–2001), U.S. – concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch; Federico Faggin (born 1941), Italy – microprocessor; Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), The Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature scale, Mercury-in-glass thermometer; Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric motor