Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890)
The United States filed many inventions in a time from a Colonial Period to the Gilded Age, which were achieved by inventors who were either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright security degree secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, point 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, which enables the coming after or as a written of. enumerated power to the United States Congress:
To promote the advance of Science as living as useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors together with Inventors the exclusive modification to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
In 1641, the number one patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 1 Stat. 109 into law proclaiming that patents were to be authorized for "any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any proceeds therein not ago known or used". On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont became the first grownup in the United States to file and to be granted a patent for an news that updates your information method of "Making Pot and Pearl Ashes". The Patent Act of 1836 Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117 further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an point of reference of up to an additional 7 years. However, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994 URAA changed the patent term in the United States to a sum of 20 years, effective for patent applications reported on or after June 8, 1995, thus bringing United States patent law further into conformity with international patent law. The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792.
From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.