January Calendar -- January Calendar of Famous Inventions and Inventor Birthdays

Find out what famous event happened on the January calendar concerning patents, trademarks, or copyrights. What famous inventor has the same January birthday as you or what invention was created on that day.
January 1
1982 Vladimir Zworykin died. Zworykin was the Russian engineer who invented the cathode-ray tube.

January 2
1975 "U.S. Patent Office" was renamed "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office".

January 3
1967 Patent for an apparatus for solar cooling and heating a house was received by Harry Thomason.

January 4
1972 Willy Wonka's trademark was registered.

January 5
1965 HOME OF THE WHOPPER was trademark registered.

January 6
1925 Agronomist George Washington Carver was granted patent #1,522,176 for cosmetics.

January 7
1913 Patent #1,049,667 was granted to William Burton for the manufacture of gasoline.

January 8
1783 Connecticut becomes the first state to pass a copyright statute, entitled "Act for the Encouragement of Literature and Genius"-enacted due to the help of Dr. Noah Webster.

January 9
1906 Campbell's soup was trademark registered.

January 10
1893 Thomas Laine patented the electric gas lighter.

January 11
1955 Lloyd Conover patented the antibiotic tetracycline.

January 12
1895 Printing and Binding Act of 1895 prohibited the copyrighting of any Government publication.

January 13
1930 Mickey Mouse cartoon first appeared in newspapers throughout the U.S.

January 14
1890 George Cooke received a patent for a gas burner.

January 15
1861 E.G. Otis was issued patent #31,128 for "improvement in hoisting apparatus" (safety elevator)

January 16
1984 Jim Henson's copyright claim on "Kermit, the Muppet" was renewed.

January 17
1882 Leroy Firman received a patent for the telephone switchboard.

January 18
1957 Lerner and Lowe's musical motion picture "My Fair Lady" was registered.

January 19
1915 DOUBLEMINT gum was trademark registered.

January 20
1857 William Kelly patented the blast furnace for manufacturing steel.
1929 The first outdoor feature-length talking motion picture was made, a film called "In Old Arizona."

January 21
1939 Arlen and Harburg's song "Over the Rainbow" was copyrighted.
1954 The first atomic submarine was launched. The USS Nautilus was christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.

January 22
1895 "Lifebuoy" soap was trademark registered.
1931 VARA (a Dutch company) began experimental TV broadcasts from Diamantbeurs, Amsterdam.

January 23
1849 A patent was granted for an envelope-making machine.
1943 "Casablanca" the movie, was copyrighted.

January 24
1871 Charles Goodyear, Jr. patented the Goodyear Welt, a machine for sewing boots and shoes.
1935 The first canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," was sold by the Kruger Brewing Company of Richmond, VA.

January 25
1870 Gustavus Dows patented a modern form of the soda fountain.
1881 Michael Brassill obtained a patent for a candlestick.

January 26
1875 The first electric dental drill was patented by George Green.
1909 Milk-Bone Brand was trademark registered.

January 27
1880 Patent #223,898 was granted to Thomas A. Edison, for "an electric lamp for giving light by incandescence".

January 28
1807 London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight.
1873 Patent #135,245 was obtained by French chemist Louis Pasteur for a process of brewing beer and ale.

January 29
1895 Charles Steinmetz patented a "system of distribution by alternating current" (A/C power).
1924 Carl Taylor of Cleveland, patented a machine that made ice cream cones.

January 30
1487 Bell chimes were invented.
1883 James Ritty and John Birch received a patent for the cash register.

January 31
1851 Gail Borden announced his invention of evaporated milk.
1893 COCA-COLA trademark for "nutrient or tonic beverages" registered.
1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was copyrighted.

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January Birthdays

What famous inventor or scientist has the same January birthday as you. The first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
January 1

    1854 - Scottish Scientist, James G Frazer

January 2

    1822 - German physicist, Rudolph J E Clausius who researched thermodynamics
    1920 - Scientist & writer, Isaac Asimov wrote I Robot & Foundation Trilogy

January 3

    1928 - Canadian, Frank Ross Anderson was the International Chess Master of 1954

January 4

    1643 - Isaac Newton was a noted physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, who invented a telescope
    1797 - German astronomer, Wilhelm Beer made the first Moon map
    1809 - Louis Braille invented a reading system for the blind
    1813 - British inventor, Isaac Pitman invented the stenographic shorthand
    1872 - Austrian, Edmund Rumpler was an auto and airplane builder
    1940 - British physicist, Brian Josephson won the Nobel Prize in 1973

January 5

    1855 - King Camp Gillette invented the safety razor
    1859 - DeWitt B Brace invented the spectrophotometer
    1874 - Joseph Erlanger invented shock therapy and won the Nobel Prize in 1944
    1900 - Physicist, Dennis Gabor invented holography

January 6

    1745 - Jacques and James Montgolfier, pioneer hot air balloonists

January 7

    1539 - Spanish lexicographer, Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco

January 8

    1891 - German, Walter Bothe was a subatomic particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1954
    1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum was a artificial intelligence pioneer

    1942 - English physicist, Stephen Hawking first revealed Black Holes and Baby Universes

January 9

    1870 - Civil engineer, Joseph B Strauss built the Golden Gate Bridge
    1890 - Czecho writer, Karel Capek wrote the play R U R and invented the name robot

January 10

    1864 - George Washington Carver
    1877 - Frederick Gardner Cottrell invented the electrostatic precipitator
    1938 - American scientist, Donald Knuth

January 11

    1895 - American inventor, Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond organ
    1906 - Swiss scientist, Albert Hofmann first to synthesize LSD

January 12

    1899 - Swiss chemist, Paul H Muller invented DDT and won the Nobel Prize in 1948
    1903 - Russian nuclear physicist, Igor V Kurtshatov who built the first Russian nuclear bomb

    1907 - Sergei Korolev, scientist
    1935 - "Amazing" Kreskin, noted mentalist and magician
    1950 - Marilyn R Smith was a noted microbiologist

January 13

    1864 - German phyicist, Wilhelm K. W. Wien won the Nobel Prize in 1911
    1927 - British scientist, Sydney Brenner

January 14

    1907 - British chemist, Derek Richte wrote Aspects of learning and Memory

January 15

    1908 - Edward Teller co-invented the H-bomb and worked on the Manhattan Project
    1963 - American scientist, Bruce Schneier

January 16

    1853 - French industrialist, Andre Michelin invented Michelin tires
    1870 - German chemist, Wilhelm Normann who researched hardening of oils
    1932 - Dian Fossey was a noted zoologist who wrote Gorillas in the Mist

January 17

    1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste invented the first sound-on-film recording
    1928 - English hair stylist, Vidal Sassoon founded Vidal Sasson
    1949 - American scientist, Anita Borg

January 18

    1813 - Joseph Glidden invented useable barbed wire
    1854 - Thomas Watson assisted in the invention of the telephone
    1856 - Surgeon, Daniel Hale Williams performed the first open heart operation
    1933 - Ray Dolby invented the Dolby noise limiting system

January 19

    1736 - Scottish inventor, James Watt invented a steam engine
    1813 - Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer engine

January 20

    1916 - Biochemist, Walter Bartley

January 21

    1743 - John Fitch invented a steamboat
    1815 - Dentist, Horace Wells pioneered the use of medical anesthesia
    1908 - Swedish astrophysicist, Bengt Stromgren studied gas clouds
    1912 - German biochemist, Konrad Bloch researched cholesterol and won the Nobel Prize in 1964
    1921 - Barney Clark was the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart

January 22

    1909 - Russian physicist, Lev D Landau won the Nobel Prize in 1962
    1925 - Leslie Silver was a noted English paint manufacturer

January 23

    1929 - Canadian chemist, John Polanyi won the Nobel Prize in 1986

January 24

    1880 - Elisabeth Achelis invented the World Calendar
    1888 - German inventor, Ernst Heinrich Heinkel built the first rocket-powered aircraft
    1928 - English zoologist, Desmond Morris researched body language
    1947 - American scientist, Michio Kaku

January 25

    1627 - Irish physicist, Robert Boyle wrote Boyle's Law of Ideal Gases
    1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky was a noted geneticist and the author of Mankind Evolving

January 26

    1907 - Austrian endocrinologist, Hans Selye demonstrated the existence of biological stress
    1911 - American nuclear physicist, Polykarp Kusch who won the Nobel Prize in 1955

January 27

    1834 - Chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev invented the periodic table of the elements
    1903 - British physiologist & neurologist, John Eccles

January 28

    1706 - English printer, John Baskerville invented typeface
    1855 - William Seward Burroughs invented an adding machine
    1884 - French astronomer, Lucien H d'Azambuja discovered the chromosome of the sun
    1903 - Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was a noted crystallographer and the first woman member of the Royal Society
    1922 - American biochemist, Robert W. Holley researched RNA and won the Nobel Prize in 1968

January 29

    1810 - German mathematician, Earnest E Kummer
    1850 - Lawrence Hargrave invented box kite
    1901 - Allen B DuMont invented an improved cathode ray tube
    1926 - Abdus Salam was a noted theoretical physicist

January 30

    1899 - English microbiologist, Max Theiler won the Nobel Prize in 1951
    1911 - Biochemist, Alexander George Ogston
    1925 - Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse
    1949 - Peter Agre a noted American scientist

January 31

    1868 - Chemist, Theodore William Richards researched atomic weights and won the Nobel Prize in 1914
    1929 - Germany, physicist, Rudolf Mossbauer won the Nobel Prize in 1961


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