an executive at 20th Century Fox, and engineer Hubert Schlafly to create an alternative to cue cards, resulting in the first teleprompter. Barton (under his legal name, Fred Barkau)submitted a patent applicationfor the “TelePrompTer” on April 21, 1949, and received the patent four years late...
The first car: Who really invented it? "We generally think of the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen as the first proper car," Tom Standage, author of "A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) told All About History magazine....
however, that there is no real evidence that Lippershey did not develop his telescope independently. Lippershey, therefore, gets the credit for the telescope, because of the patent application, while Jansen is credited with inventing the compound microscope. Both appear ...
Who Invented Hyperlinks? IP Audit Uncovers Potentially Valuable Patent
made certain Bell secured his patent C. was the real inventor of the telephone D. had worked for Bell's competitor2. We know from Paragraph 3 that Latimer A. made light bulbs much safer B. invented new street lamps C. helped Edison with his inventions D. improved on Edison's light ...
Why Volvo gave away the patent for their most important invention The man who invented the three-point seat belt Nils Bohlin, an engineer at Volvo, invented the three-point seat belt in 1959. The 1950s were a time when pilots and racing drivers wore harnesses, but seatbelts - where they...
You should also consider pursuing patent protection. A patent protects inventions or discoveries, including computer programs. In the United States, the inventor of the patent application is the person who conceived of the invention. To the extent the code writer is an inventor (which depends on ...
Let’s begin the story of “Who invented WiFi.” Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress. Her discovery became the basis for WiFi. Due to this, the world knows her as the mother of WiFi. Lamarr was always an inventor by heart. ...
United States patent for the steamboat. He went on to build a larger steamboat which carried passengers and freight between Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey. Fitch was granted his patent after a legal battle with Rumsey over claims to the invention. Both men had invented similar inventions...
less than half of Hargreaves' requested 7,000 pounds. Hargreaves ultimately lost the case when it turned out that the courts had rejected his patent application. He had produced and sold too many spinning jennies before filing for the patent. The technology was already out there and being used...