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August Inventions – InventHelp Celebrates National Inventors Month
August is National Inventors' Month; a month-long celebration of all of the innovators that have enriched our world with their ideas.
We at InventHelp are excited that this time is set aside to celebrate the achievements of the innovative and the entrepreneurial, and we wanted to highlight some of the most prominent inventions that occurred in the month of August.
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August 1
During World War I, the U.S. Army needed a fast, lightweight all-terrain vehicle. In 1940, the Army called on the automotive companies to create a working prototype in forty-nine days. Willy’s Truck Company was the first company to create the right prototype, and in 1941 the first Jeep rolled off the assembly line. Parade magazine called it "the Army's most intriguing new gadget" and General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America couldn't have won World War II without it.
August 6
On this date in 1935, William Coolidge obtained a patent for the cathode ray tube, a critical ingredient of TV and other electronic applications. A cathode ray tube is a specialized vacuum tube in which images are produced when an electron beam strikes a phosphorescent surface.
August 7
The world's first program-controlled calculator, the Harvard Mark I, was launched in 1944. The machine was built by Harvard researchers Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper and supported by IBM. The 5-ton device contained almost 760,000 separate pieces. The Mark I was used by the US Navy for gunnery and ballistic calculations until 1959.
August 9
In 1898, Rudolf Diesel of France was granted a patent for an "internal combustion engine", or Diesel engine. His invention proved that fuel could be ignited without a spark. The diesel engines of today are refined versions of Rudolf Diesel's original concept. They are often used in submarines, ships, locomotives, large trucks and electric generating plants.
August 11
In 1903, the first U.S. patent for instant coffee was issued to Satori Kato of Chicago, Illinois. The application was filed April 17th, 1901, in which year his Kato Coffee Company introduced the product at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Two years earlier, four men had formed the company when an American coffee importer and a roaster contacted Sartori Kato (the Japanese inventor of a soluble tea), who adapted his process of dehydration to coffee
August 20
In 1930, Philo Farnsworth patented a television system (U.S. 1,773,980). This was his first patent, with a description of his image dissector tube, which was his most important inventive contribution to the development of television. In 1927, Farnsworth was the first inventor to transmit a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines, creating an image of the dollar sign. Farnsworth also developed the dissector tube, which is the basis of all current electronic televisions.
August 30
In 1885, the first motorcycle was patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany. It was comprised of an engine attached to a wooden bike, and it marked the moment in history when the dual developments of a viable gas-powered engine and the modern bicycle collided.
August 31
In 1897 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetograph, an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermittent film movement, to photograph movies for in-house experiments and commercial presentations.
National Inventors Month was started in 1998 by the United Inventors Association of the USA, the Academy of Applied Science, and Inventors Digest magazine with the purpose of promoting the positive image of inventors and the contributions they give to the world.
InventHelp is proud to celebrate some famous inventors and inventions this month, but we are equally inspired by those modern-day innovators, like our clients, who provide solutions to everyday problems that we all face.
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