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  2. Irving Naxon - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the slow cooker, Naxon also invented several other appliances and has over 200 patents to his name. [4] [5] He invented an electric frying pan and the hula lamp, a precursor to the lava lamp. [1] [5] Another notable invention of Naxon is his TeleSign, an electronic sign that shows moving text resembling today's news ticker. [1 ...

  3. Jerome H. Lemelson - Wikipedia

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    Some people see life in terms of a photograph or a song or a short story; Lemelson sees it in terms of a patent. He thinks in patents, and sometimes he dreams in patents. Lemelson holds patents on machine-vision systems, an industrial robot, a fax machine, a copy machine, a tape-recorder drive, and a camcorder.

  4. Inventor (patent) - Wikipedia

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    In patent law, an inventor is the person, or persons in United States patent law, who contribute to the claims of a patentable invention. In some patent law frameworks, however, such as in the European Patent Convention (EPC) and its case law , no explicit, accurate definition of who exactly is an inventor is provided.

  5. Abraham Lincoln's patent - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln admired the patent law system because of the reciprocal benefits it furnished both the inventor and society. In 1859 he noted that the patent system ". . . has secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added to the interest of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful ...

  6. Seth Boyden - Wikipedia

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    Seth Boyden (November 17, 1788 – March 31, 1870) was an American inventor. Boyden perfected the process for making patent leather, created malleable iron, invented a nail-making machine, and built his own steamboat. He is also credited with having invented a cut off switch for steam engines and a method for producing zinc from ore.

  7. P. L. Robertson - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from the 1909 Canadian patent for the Robertson screw. Peter Lymburner Robertson (December 10, 1879 – September 28, 1951) was a Canadian inventor, industrialist, salesman, and philanthropist who popularized the square-socket drive for screws, often called the Robertson drive.

  8. Sybilla Righton Masters - Wikipedia

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    GB Patent 604 (1715), Cleaning and Curing Indian Corn, applied for by Sybilla Masters but granted to her husband Thomas Masters because women could not be legally recognised. Sybilla Righton Masters (c. 1676 – 23 August 1720) [ 1 ] was an American inventor.

  9. Margaret A. Wilcox - Wikipedia

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    Little is known about her early life, [citation needed] which was common for many women of her era, whose personal histories were often overshadowed by their male counterparts. [1] Wilcox showed an early interest in mechanical engineering despite the social conventions of her era, which often restricted women's roles to domestic domains.