National Inventors’ Day – 2024

National Inventors’ Day!!!

Today is National Inventors’ Day for 2024! It is the day to celebrate all of those who made all those inventions. . .

Happy National Inventors’  Day ! ! !

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A Brief History:
Origination: National Inventors’ Day is the day to honor all inventors of the past, the present-day creators, and the encouragement of the inventors of the future. On February 11th, National Inventors’ Day celebrates the genius behind design. It also dives into the history behind some of our most unusual inventions.

Precedence: Inventors should keep track of their creations, ideas, processes, ingredients, and components and not divulge too much information. To be a successful inventor, you need protect your inventions and also get your unique creations patented with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It is important to note that if you are a person working on a patent, and you are on your employer’s clock or salary, and on the employer’s premises while creating the invention, legally, you seize your right to the invention, so if you are creating, you must make sure that you are on your own time and in your own place while creating the invention.

Celebrated: February 11^th every year, which is the same day as Thomas Edison’s birthday–since 1983 when President Ronald Reagan instituted the day as a proclaimed day!

A Few Facts:
I am sharing a few facts, and more, some trivia, some not trivial. . .

Important Inventors and Their Major Inventions:

• Stone tools – Middle Paleolithic Ancient Times invention – Date Circa. 300,000 years ago
• Musical Instrument: early flutes made from animal bones – Stone Age Ancient Times invention – Date Circa. 35,000 B.C.
• Dugout Boat – Ice Age Ancient Times invention – Date Circa. 10,000 B.C.
• Board Game: “The Royal Game of Ur” – Neolithic Ancient Times invention – ancient Mesopotamia – Date Circa. 4400 B.C.
• First Written Song – Neolithic Ancient Times invention – ancient cuneiform – Date Circa. 3800 B.C.
• Boat – Neolithic Ancient Times invention – Egypt – Date Circa. 4000 to 3000 B.C.
• First Toy – Ancient Times invention in rock formations; first Greek reference to yo-yos is 500 B.C. – Date Circa. 2600 B.C.
• Wheel – Neolithic Ancient Times invention – Date Circa. 3500 B.C.
• First Written Languages – Sumerian people of southern Mesopotamia – Date Circa. 3000 B.C.
• Ancient papyrus (Crude version) – Egyptians – Date Circa. 2500 B.C.
• Carpet – Ancient Times invention – Date Circa. 2,000 or 3,000 B.C.
• Plow (formerly “Plough”) – Ancient Times invention – Date Circa. 1000 B.C.
• Silverware, including a spoon – Ancient Egypt – Date Circa. 1000 B.C.
• First Sports – Olympia now Greece – Date Circa. 776 B.C.
• First Competitive Sports – The Olympiad – Date Circa. 393 B.C.
• Kite – Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu – Date circa. 500 B.C.
• Papyrus – Ts’ai Lun – Date circa. 100 B.C.
• Compass – Ancient China – Date circa. 11^th to 12^th century
• Eyeglasses/Spectacles – Salvino D’Armati – Date circa. 13^th century
• Printing Press – Johannes Gutenberg – Circa. 1400
• First Bank – Banca Monte Dei Paschi di Siena: Tuscan city of Siena – Date circa. 1472
• Flush Toilet – Unknown (1596) & George Jennings (1851) – Date circa. 1596 & 1851
• Thermometer – Santorio Santorio – Date circa. 1612
• First Newspaper – Gazette de France – Date circa. 1632
• First version of Train – Thomas Savery – Date circa. 1698
• Oven – Count Rumford – Date circa. 17^th century
• Stove & Oven – Francois Cuvillies – Date circa. 1735
• Pulp process – Paper (First) – Jacob Christian Schäffer – Date circa. 1765
• Steam Engine – James Watt – Date circa. 1781
• Alarm Clock – Levi Hutchins – Date circa. 1787
• First U.S. Bank – Alexander Hamilton – Date circa. 1791
• Cotton Gin – Eli Whitney – Date circa. 1794
• Vaccines – Edward Jenner – Date circa. 1796 *
• Pulp process – Paper (Second) – Matthias Koops – Date circa. 1800
• Steam Engine of Train – Richard Trevithick – Date circa. 1804
• Camera – Nicéphore Niépce – Date circa. 1816
• Cement – Joseph Aspdin (Portland cement) – Date circa. 1824
• Modern Photograph – Nicéphore Niépce – Date circa. 1827
• Lawn Mower – Edwin Beard Budding – Date circa. 1830
• Computer – Charles Babbage – Date circa. between 1833 and 1871
• Darkroom process – Fox-Talbot – Date circa. 1834
• Paper – Charles Fenerty – Date circa. 1838
• Newspaper – Charles Fenerty – Date circa. 1838
• Camera Lens – Charles Chevalier – Date circa. 1839
• Solar Cell – Edmond Becquerel – Date circa. 1839
• Morse Code & the Telegraph – Samuel Morse – Date circa. 1830’s & 1840’s
• Doppler Effect Chart – Christian Doppler – Date circa. 1842
• Electric Telegraph – Alexander Baine – Date circa. 1843
• Anesthesia – Dr. William T.G. Morton & Dr. John Collins Warren – October 16, 1846
• Tractor – John Froelich – November 24, 1849
• Windmill – Daniel Halladay – August 29, 1854
• Steel – Henry Bessemer – Date circa. 1856
• Mattress – Heinrich Westphal – Date circa. 1871
• First Semiconductor device, Crystal Detector – Karl Ferdinand Braun – Date circa. 1874
• Gasoline Engine (Four Stroke Cycle) – Gottlieb Daimler – Date circa. 1885 to 1876
• Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell – February 14, 1876
• Mimeograph Machine (Copier) – Thomas Edison – August 8, 1876
• Phonograph – Thomas Edison – Date circa. 1877
• Light Bulb – Thomas Edison – October 14, 1878
• Typewriter – Christopher Latham Sholes – Date circa. 1878
• The Automobile – Carl Benz – January 29, 1886
• Non-Magnetic Recorder – Alexander Graham Bell – Date circa. 1886
• Contact lenses – Fick and Edouard Kalt – Date circa. 1888
• Ballpoint Pen – John J Loud – Date circa. 1888
• First Electric Car – William Morrison – Date circa. 1890-1891
• Flashlight – American Ever-Ready Company founder Conrad Hubert – Date circa. 1890’s
• Radio – Guglielmo Marconi – Date circa. 1890’s
• Diesel Engine – Rudolf Diesel – February 28, 1892
• Film/Cinématographe – Lumière brothers – Date circa. December 1895
• Magnetic Recorder – Valdemar Poulsen – Date circa. 1898
• Video Camera – John Logie Baird – Date circa. 1900 to 1910
• Longer Transmission of Radio Wave – Reginald A. Fessenden – December 23, 1900
• Airplane – Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright – Date circa. 1903
• First Commercial Radio Broadcast – Radio Station KDKA with the results of the Harding-Cox Presidential race – November 2, 1920 (See my blogpost): Celebrating The 100th Anniversary of Radio
• Vacuum Cleaner – James Murray Spangler sold idea to Susan Hoover – Date circa. 1920’s
• Rocket – Robert H. Goddard – March 16, 1926
• Television – Philo Taylor Farnsworth – September 7, 1927
• Coaxial cable – Lloyd Espenschied & Herman A. Affel of Bell Labs – Date circa. 1929
• Sweepstakes – Irish Sweepstakes – Date circa. 1930
• Pinball Machine – BMI Gaming – Date circa. 1931
• Radar – Robert Alexander Watson-Watt – February 26, 1935
• Copy Machine – Chester Carlson – October 22, 1938
• First Mobile Phone Call with 80-pound car telephone – Bell Phone Company – June 17, 1946
• Microwave Oven – Percy Spencer/Radarange – Date circa. 1946
• Credit Card – Ralph Schneider & Frank McNamara/Diners Club– Date circa. 1950
• Satellite – Sputnik 1, U.S.S.R. – October 4, 1957
• LED Light Bulb (red) – Robert Biard and Gary Pittman – Date circa. 1961
• LED Light Bulb (other colors, blue first) – Nick Holonyak, Jr. – Date circa. 1962
• First U.S. Lottery – New Hampshire Sweepstakes, now the New Hampshire Lottery – March 12, 1964
• Telephony Facsimile Machine – Xerox Corporation – Date circa. 1964
• ATM Teller Machine – Shepherd-Barron – Date circa. 1967
• Video Camera to Video Cassette – JVC Video Home System – Date circa. 1970’s
• Personal Computer (Kenbak-1) – John Blankenbaker/Kenbak Corporation – Date circa. 1970-1971
• First Email – Ray Tomlinson – Date circa. 1971
• First Video Game: “Pong” – Atari/Namco – Date circa.November 1972 & November 1973
• First Cellular Telephone Call – Martin Cooper/Motorola Corporation – April 3, 1973
• Compact Disk – Sony/Phillips – Date circa. Mid-1970’s
• First Gaming for Computer: “Adventure” developed for the PDP-11 minicomputer – Will Crowther – Date circa. 1976
• The Internet/Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP) – Tim Berners-Lee – January 1, 1983
• 3D Printer – Charles W. Hull – Date circa. Mid-1980’s
• World Wide Web – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, while working at CERN (http://…) – Date circa. 1989
• WiFi – NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation – Date circa. 1991
• Amazon – Jeff Bezos – July 5, 1994
• Blogging – Justin Hall on Links.net – Date circa. 1994
• eBay – Pierre Omidyar – Date circa. 1995
• BlackBerry (Inter@ctive Pager 950″, development name “Leapfrog”) – Research in Motion – February 1998
• Google – Sergey Brin and Larry Page – September 1998
• PayPal (Confinity) – Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek – December 1998
• Blogger – Pyra Labs – August 23, 1999
• Disposable cell phone – Randice-Lisa “Randi” Altschul – Date circa. 1999
• Satellite Radio – Martine Rothblatt, inventor of the Sirius Satellite Radio (Sirius became SiriusXM in 2008) – Date circa. 2001
• ResellerRatings.com (originally SysOpt.com) – Scott Wainner – Date circa. 2001
• LinkedIn – Reid Hoffman’s – May 5, 2003
• WordPress – Matt Mullenweg and English developer Mike Little – May 27, 2003
• Content Removed
• Steam – Gabe Newell/Valve Corporation – Date circa. 2003
• Firefox browser (Mozilla project) – Brendan Eich & Mitchell Baker – Date circa. 2003 to 2004
• Tesla Electric Car – Elon Musk – Date circa. 2003 to 2004
• Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg – February 4, 2004
• Flickr – Ludicorp (Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake) – February 10, 2004
• G-Mail – Paul Buchheit –  April 1, 2004
• Skype – Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, and four Estonian developers –  August 2004
• Vimeo – Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein – November 2004
• YouTube – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim – February 14, 2005
• Reddit – University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian, and Aaron Swartz – Date circa. 2005
• Etsy – Rob Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik – Date circa. 2005
• Twitter – Jack Dorsey – Date circa. 2006
• Spotify – Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon – Date circa. 2006
• Wix – Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan – Date circa. 2006
• Wattpad – Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen – Date circa. 2006
• Goodreads – Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler – January 2007
• VK.com (VKontakte) – Founder Pavel Durov – January 19, 2007
• Tumblr – David Karp and Marco Arment – February 19, 2007
• Disqus (a Y Combinator startup) – Daniel Ha and Jason Yan – Summer of 2007
• Bloglovin’ – Dan Carlberg, Daniel Swenson, Patrik Ring, Mattias Swenson, and Daniel Gren – Date circa. 2007
• Trustpilot – Peter Holten Mühlmann – Date circa. 2007
• SoundCloud – Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlfors – August 27, 2007 to October 17, 2008
• Quora – Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever – June 2009
• Venmo – Andrew Kortina –  Date circa. 2009
• Pinterest – Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp –  January 2010
• Flipboard – Mike McCue and Evan Doll – July 21, 2010
• Instagram – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger– October 2010
• Twitch Interactive (a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv) – subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. – June 2011
• Snap Inc. (technological products and services, namely Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji) – Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown – September 16, 2011
• BookBub – Josh Schanker and Nicholas Ciarelli – January 2012
• MeWe – Mark Weinstein, Jonathan Wolfe – May 16, 2012
• Medium.com – Evan Williams – August 2012
• TikTok (formerly ByteDance and then alsoMusical.ly) – Zhang Yiming (张一鸣) – Date circa. 2012
• Intelligent Oven – Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal – June 2013
• Rumble – Chris Pavlovski – October 2013
• Alignable – Eric Groves and Venkat Krishnamurthy – Date circa. 2013 to 2014
• Product Hunt – Ryan Hoover – November 2013
• .GIPHY – Jace Cooke Alex Chung – Date circa. 2013
• Alexa – Ranchi’s Rohit Prasad of Jeff Bezo’s concept – November 2014
• SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket – Elon Musk – Date circa. 2014 to 2016 (intense testing)
• Litsy – Todd Lawton and Jeff LeBlanc – April 2016
• Google Assistant – Google developers, announced by CEO Sundar Pichai – Date circa. May to September 2016
• Mastodon – Eugen Rochko – October 2016 (Versatileer does not support this platform based on an open grievance that was not responded to properly concerning a statement from the company that we were spamming)
• AllAuthor – Naveen Joshi and Mady Joshi – Date circa. 2016
• Linktree – Alex Zaccaria, Anthony Zaccaria, and Nick Humphreys – Date circa. 2016
• DLive – Charles Wayn and Cole Chen – December 2017
• Tesla Model – Elon Musk – Date circa. 2017
• Ko-fi – Nigel Pickles and Simon Ellington – Date circa. 2017
• TRUTH Social – Trump Media & Technology Group – October 20, 2021
• Threads – Mark Zuckerberg and his team at Meta (Instagram) – August 22, 2023
• More. . .

* It is important to note that Edward Jenner’s specification on a vaccination om “immunity” was altered in 2021 by the CDC to read “protection”. Therefore an official discrepancy because the CDC cannot change a definition due to lack of authority to do such. It is also internationally wrong for any country to redefine a word. THis will be an ongoing decision that ultimately may make it to the Supreme Court.

The Present:
People all over the world, are enjoying the gadgets, services and necessities that make living in a modern era possible!

The Future:
We really have a deficit of inventions over the past half century, specifically the last three decades, most of which are technological inventions these days. A lot of this has to do with the failing education system where we are stuck on teaching thinking mathematics and science are not important. I am breaking the bad news to those who probably don’t want to hear it, but language, science and mathematics are very important! We are in dire need of an education overhaul, and they need to start teaching–like yesterday, and not delay children’s educations such as they did or are doing with the handling of COVID-19—like never, EVER again! Our modern world is in great need of those enthusiastic young inventors. Our best investment ever is with our youth! The generations need new and interesting and entertaining inventions to keep the modern world, that–modern–now, and in the years to come. . .

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