Posts Tagged ‘Historic Patents’

What Invention Was Inspired by Cuts In The Kitchen?

21st October 2009 by admin No Comments

In 1920, Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid to help his wife, Josephine, who was prone to cutting herself while trying to prepare dinner.  Earle Dickson would come home from his job as cotton buyer for Johnson and Johnson to dinner on the table and a wife with bulky bandages covering the burns and cuts on [...]

What was Mark Twain’s most profitable book?

17th September 2009 by admin No Comments

Mark Twain’s most lucrative book was actually blank. Twain was a lover of scrapbooks and was often seen carrying one with him. Growing tired of working with harden paste and losing the glue, Twain set out to make a better type of scrapbook. In June of 1873, he received Patent #140245 for improvement in scrapbooks. [...]