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1

APPLE JACKS cereal trademark registered in 1966

2

PILLSBURY'S flour trademark registered in 1948

3

LISTERINE trademark registered in 1903

4

Richard Gatling received a patent for the machine gun in 1862

5

Henry Ford received a patent in 1901 for a motor carriage

6

Colonel Jacob Schick patents the first electric razor in 1928

7

The movie "Guys and Dolls" based on stories by Damon Runyon is registered in 1955

8

Cecile B. Demille's "The Ten Commandments" was registered in 1956

9

George Bruce receives the 1st Design Patent in 1842 for printing type faces

10

STAR-KIST canned tuna fish trademark registered in 1953

11

NABISCO trademark registered in 1901

12

BAT MAN trademark registered in 1940
NABISCO trademark for crackers, wafers, cakes and other baked products registered in 1901

13

Robert Jarvik was granted a patent in 1979 for an artificial heart

14

Patsy Sherman & Samuel Smith obtain a patent, in 1973, for a method for treating carpets, known as Scotchguard

15

Patent #775,134 granted to King C. Gillette for a safety 'razor' in 1904

16

Stephen Spielberg's-- "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was registered in 1977

17

Emile Berliner is issued a patent for a combined telegraph and telephone in 1891

18

"ELMER'S" glue trademark registered in 1952

19

Granville Woods was issued a patent for a third rail to operate electrified railways in 1901

20

Patent #1,475,024 granted to Garrett Morgan in 1923 for a traffice signal, the forerunner of the modern stop light

21

Issac Von Bunschoten patents a rosin-oil lamp in 1854

22

Design Patent for the Congressional Medal of Honor was granted to George Gillespie in 1904

23

Andrew Beard granted a patent in 1898 for a railway car coupler

24

Patent #157,124 granted to Joseph Glidden in 1874 for barbed wire fencing

25

Robert S. Ledleyfor granted patent #3,922,522 in 1975 "diagnostic X-ray systems" known as CAT-Scans

26

Russell Penniman received patent in 1895 for transparent photographic film

27

Mildred Lord granted a patent for a washing machine in 1894

28

ARM & HAMMER baking soda, trademark registered in 1905

29

Francis Blake was granted a patent in 1881 for the speaking phone

30

John Mason patents the screw neck bottle--the Mason Jar--in 1858

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