Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.
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Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.
The DuPont company’s organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as nylon.
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.
Although the patent for the game was awarded to Darrow, it is now widely recognised that he was just one of many people who developed the complex design and rules that we now know as Monopoly.
On the 20th May 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis secured the patent for riveted blue jeans.
On the 31st December 1935, the board game Monopoly was patented.
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