Happy Birthday to the First Patent Granted…
30th July 2009 by admin No CommentsOn July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont received the first U.S. patent for an improvement in “the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process.” Pot Ash is a potassium carbonate used in the making soap and manufacturing of glass
Today this patent is known as 1X. The original [...]



