`` My personal view is that not one patented invention in ten is worth making '', he later told a Congressional committee.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

This invention was patented in U. S. 110, 338.

Sir David Brewster began work leading towards invention of the kaleidoscope in 1815 when he was conducting experiments on light polarization but it was not patented until two years later.

The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, or distributing the patented invention without permission.

This was not his own invention, though ; Toogood and Hays had patented it a century earlier, and it had become a common use as a means of propelling boats since that time.

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

Quills went into decline after the invention of the metal pen, which was first patented in America in 1810 and then mass produced by 1860, although mass production began in Great Britain as early as 1822 by John Mitchell of Birmingham.

The origination of this invention is in doubt, as similar designs were patented in the same year by Artemus Wheeler in the United States and by Cornelius Coolidge in France.

Slingshots depend on strong elastic materials, typically vulcanized natural rubber or the equivalent, and thus date back no further than the invention of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear in 1839 ( patented in 1844 ).

Lambertsen's invention ( patented by himself several times from 1940 to 1989 ) was a rebreather and is different from the open circuit diving regulator and diving cylinder assemblies also commonly referred to as scuba.

After having travelled to England and discovered William James ' invention, the French physician Manuel Théodore Guillaumet, from Argentan ( Normandy ), patented in 1838 the oldest known regulator mechanism.

Edison patented a system for electricity distribution in 1880, which was essential to capitalize on the invention of the electric lamp.

Sweden was one of few countries where the Bell System never got a strong hold, because Bell's invention was not patented in Sweden and a Swedish private competitor, Allmänna Telefon, was thus able to find an independent equipment supplier in Lars Magnus Ericsson.

After a lengthy tour of Europe, during which time he demonstrated his invention to packed houses, Theremin found his way to the United States, where he patented his invention in 1928 ().

Jendrassik published a turboprop idea in 1928 and on March 12, 1929 he patented his invention.

In 2001, Pavel threatened Sony with legal suits in every country in which he had patented his invention.

A licensor may grant a license under intellectual property laws to authorise a use ( such as copying software or using a ( patented ) invention ) to a licensee, sparing the licensee from a claim of infringement brought by the licensor.

Staudte patented his invention, which used a photolithographic process that is similar to the way integrated circuits are made.

His invention of the pendulum clock, patented in 1657, was a breakthrough in timekeeping.

In 1989 a giant paper clip, almost 7 meters high, was erected on the campus of a commercial college near Oslo in honour of Vaaler, ninety years after his invention was patented.

A similar invention was patented in 1839 by John Stevens in America.

The invention that made the percussion cap possible using the recently discovered fulminates was patented by the Rev.

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

In the United States the first water caterpillar was patented in 1839 by William Leavenworth of New York.

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

Over-stringing was invented by Jean-Henri Pape during the 1820s, and first patented for use in grand pianos in the United States by Henry Steinway, Jr. in 1859.

A single-piece cast iron plough was also developed and patented by Charles Newbold in the United States.

It was patented in the United Kingdom in 1837, and was first successfully demonstrated by Cooke and Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse.

Around 1897, Nikola Tesla patented a remote controlled boat and later demonstrated the feasibility of radio-guided torpedoes to the United States military.

In the United States, Thomas Edison, in the mid-1880s, patented an electromagnetic induction system he called " grasshopper telegraphy ", which allowed telegraphic signals to jump the short distance between a running train and telegraph wires running parallel to the tracks.

His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899.

Originally patented in the German Empire, Gassner also received patents from Austria – Hungary, Belgium, the French Third Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( all in 1886 ) and the United States ( in 1887 ).

Another notable paper clip design was also patented in the United States by Erlman J. Wright in 1877.

In that year George Wilson in the United Kingdom patented the method of tessellating ( tiling ) a number of envelope patterns across and down a large sheet, thereby reducing the overall amount of waste produced per envelope when they were cut out.

A " fluted " metal washboard was patented in the United States in 1833.

The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League.

Scientist, inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla patented numerous inventions and was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity in the United States.

Arthur Berry in 1913 patented a print-and-etch method in Britain, and in the United States Max Schoop obtained a patent to flame-spray metal onto a board through a patterned mask.

The AEA members were later dismayed when Curtiss dropped out of their organization, patented their innovation and reportedly sold the patent to the United States Government.

What is known about Woodward's discovery is that it was patented in Canada and the United States prior to a patent being granted to Edison and it is known that the patent for the Canadian discovery was purchased by Edison when he was making his original investigations and before he obtained his patent.

It is also unique in that the city was established on land that was originally patented from the United States for the purpose of platting the city ( rather than being homesteaded by individuals ).

Several types of paper clips had been patented in the United States since 1867, but the " Gem " type was not then ( and has never been ) patented.