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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.
The grill was featured in the Time Magazine's best inventions of the year in 2001. [28] 2001, Engineer Graeme Wells created the oil-can guitar. [8] 2005, Professor Mulalo Doyoyo invented the "cementless concrete", called Cenocell. 2008, the freeplay fetal heart rate monitor was invented. It is a hand-crank powered diagnostic device. [29] [30]
1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [508] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [509]
The law states that only that light which is absorbed by a system can bring about a photochemical change. 1828: Beryllium – Friedrich Wöhler, A.A.B. Bussy (1828). 1830: Non-Euclidean geometry (hyperbolic geometry) – Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1830), János Bolyai (1832); preceded by Gauss (unpublished result) c. 1805.
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; Timeline of United States inventions (after ...
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Anatol Josepho (1894–1980), patented the first coin-operated photo booth called the "Photomaton" in 1925; Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), U.S. – Permanent wave machine; Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper; Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants
On January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California after the plane's jackscrew failed, killing all 88 on board. On July 25, 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashed into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel. This was ...