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Damnit jakelong, you didn't could've separated the list into different posts...

air conditioning unit(1949)I already did this one.

almanac (1791)The origin of the almanac can be traced back to ancient Babylonian astronomy, when tables of planetary periods were produced in order to predict lunar and planetary phenomena. It has been used by Greece and Babylonia. What about the Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474? The Cracovian Almanac for the Year 1474? That doesn't count?

auto cut-off switch (1839)I congratulate you AGAIN.

auto fishing devise Did you read the patent? He has "invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Fishing Devices"
He didn't invent the automatic fishing device, he just 'improved' a white invention.

automatic gear shift (1932)The first automatic-transmission automobile to enter the market was designed by the Sturtevant brothers of Massachusetts in 1904. US Patent #766551 was the first of several patents on their gearshift mechanism. Automatic transmission technology continued to develop, spawning hundreds of patents and numerous experimental units; but because of cost, reliability issues and an initial lack of demand, several decades passed before vehicles with automatic transmission became common on the roads.

baby buggy (1899)Although the carrying of children on the body using devices is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West, the practice has been established in many cultures for centuries. Images of children being carried in slings can be seen in Egyptian artwork dating back to the time of the Pharaohs, and have been used in many indigenous cultures. Devices for carrying children, not on the body, take the form of "carrycots", although many cultures have produced portable cradles, cradleboards, baskets, travois and other devices for making young infants easier to pick up and set down quickly. The modern car seat infant carrier is a relative latecomer.

bicycle frame (1899)
Comte Mede de Sivrac and Karl von Sauerbronn built primitive versions of the bicycle in 1791 and 1816 respectively. The frame of John Starley's 1885 "safety bicycle" resembled that of a modern bicycle.

biscuit cutter (1875)
http://www.google.com/patents?id=4UBMAAAAEBAJ
According to his patent, he made an "IMPROVEMENT IN BISCUIT-CUTTERS"
This was also before your claimed date that he invented the biscuit cutter. I didn't know it was possible to improve something that was never invented. Silly Ashbourne.

blood plasma bag (~1945)The possibility of using blood plasma for transfusion purposes was known at least since 1918, when English physician Gordon R. Ward suggested it in a medical journal. In the mid-1930s, John Elliott advanced the idea, emphasizing plasma's advantages in shelf life and donor-recipient compatibility, and in 1939 he and two colleagues reported having used stored plasma in 191 transfusions. Charles Drew was not responsible for any breakthrough scientific or medical discovery; his main career achievement lay in supervising or co-supervising major programs for the collection and shipment of blood and plasma.

More on this wonderful man:
http://www.textdump.com/v/?k=MTk5Mw

cellular phone (1971)On July 6, 1971, Sampson and co-inventor George Miley received a patent on a "gamma electric cell" that converted a gamma ray input into an electrical output (Among the first to do that was Bernhard Gross, US patent #3122640, 1964). What, you ask, does gamma radiation have to do with cellular communications technology? The answer: nothing. Some multiculturalist pseudo-historian must have seen the words "electric" and "cell" and thought "cell phone."

The father of the cell phone is Martin Cooper who first demonstrated the technology in 1973.

Chamber Commode (1897)http://www.google.com/patents?id=XL5uAAAAEBAJ according to that patent, Thomas Elkins made an "IMPROVEMENT IN CHAMBER-COMMODES" in 1872.

Again, someone improving an invention before they invented it. DAMN! They must be time traveling!

clothes dryer (1862)
The "clothes-drier" described in Sampson's patent was actually a rack for holding clothes near a stove, and was intended as an "improvement" on similar contraptions:
" My invention relates to improvements in clothes-driers.... The object of my invention is to suspend clothing in close relation to a stove by means of frames so constructed that they can be readily placed in proper position and put aside when not required for use.

US patent #476416, 1892"
Nineteen years earlier, there were already over 300 US patents for such "clothes-driers" (Subject-Matter Index of Patents...1790 to 1873).

A Frenchman named Pochon in 1799 built the first known tumble dryer � a crank-driven, rotating metal drum pierced with ventilation holes and held over heat. Electric tumble dryers appeared in the first half of the 20th century.

curtain rod (1889)I can't find any info on this. Provide me with a link or a patent number or something

curtain rod support (1896)
Quote from the patent (US#565075):
"I, William S. Grant..... have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Rod supports"
Improvements are NOT really inventions, especially built off white ones.

Door Knob (December 10, 1878)

According to US patent #201906, (http://www.google.com/patents?id=IrFAAAAAEBAJ)
Improvements in door-knob and shank attachments were created in February 15, 1878. This is months before your negro friend created the doornob. Too much time traveling going on :(

Door stop (December 10, 1878)
On Dec 17, 1896, JOHN E. MINOTT patented an improvement on door-stops(US#589264). So, again, an improvement BEFORE an invention.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=4_toAAAAEBAJ

dust pan (1897)
While the ultimate origin of the dustpan is lost in the mists (dusts?) of time, at least we know that US patent #20811 for "Dust-pan" was granted to T.E. McNeill in 1858. That was the first of about 164 US dustpan patents predating Lloyd Ray's.
Some more Dust-Pan Patents:
http://paste2.org/p/64642

Egg beater (1884)The hand-cranked egg beater with two intermeshed, counter-rotating whisks was invented by Turner Williams of Providence, Rhode Island in 1870 (US Patent #103811). It was an improvement on earlier rotary egg beaters that had only one whisk.

electric lampbulb (1882)Find a patent or some proof of this, I can't.

Elevator (1867)Check above posts.

eye protector (1880)*sigh*
US patent 234039 (http://www.google.com/patents?id=zEdxAAAAEBAJ) Says:

"My invention relates to certain improvements in eye-protectors for use of...."

fire escape ladder (1878)

Winters' "fire escape" was a wagon-mounted ladder. The first such contraption patented in the US was the work of William P. Withey, 1840 (US patent #1599). The fire escape with a "lazy-tongs" type ladder, more similar to Winters' patent, was pioneered by H�ttman and Kornelio in 1849 (US patent #6155). One of the first fire escapes of any type was invented in 18th-century England:
"In 1784, Daniel Maseres, of England, invented a machine called a fire escape, which, being fastened to the window, would enable anyone to descend to the street without injury."Benjamin Butterworth, Growth of Industrial Art, 1888

By 1888 the US had granted 1,099 patents on fire escapes of "many forms, and of every possible material" (Butterworth).

fire extinguisher (1872)
In 1813, British army captain George Manby created the first known portable fire extinguisher: a two-foot-tall copper cylinder that held 3 gallons of water and used compressed air as a propellant. One of the earliest extinguishers to use a chemical extinguishing agent, and not just water, was invented in 1849 by the Englishman William Henry Phillips, who patented his "fire annihilator" in England and the United States (US patent #7,269).

folding bed (1899)What about US#647670??? The Folding BEd by George W. Sanor filed in January 18, 1899?
What about Peter H. Mellons US#632191 Folding Bed patent filed on Feb 6, 1889?

The only thing I found from your friend is patent RE11830 - http://www.google.com/patents?id=vtkhAAAAEBAJ issued in 1900.

Folding Chair (June 11, 1889
)I found a Jun 11, 1889 invention of the Folding Chair, but by someone named ANNIE B. MILLIKEN (US#412400)

Purdy et al (US#405117) created a folding chair and patented and filed it in Aug 27, 1888.

Fountain Pen (1890)The first reference to what seems to be a fountain pen appears in an Arabic text from 969 AD; details of the instrument are not known. A French "Bion" pen, dated 1702, represents the oldest fountain pen that still survives. Later models included John Scheffer's 1819 pen, possibly the first to be mass-produced; John Jacob Parker's "self-filling" pen of 1832; and the famous Lewis Waterman pen of 1884 (US Patents #293545, #307735).

furniture caster (1878)http://tinyurl.com/furniturecaster is a list of furniture caster patents BEFORE 1878.

gas maskDisproved, check posts.

Golf tee (1899)A small rubber platform invented by Scotsmen William Bloxsom and Arthur Douglas was the world's first patented golf tee (British patent #12941 of 1889). The first known tee to penetrate the ground, in contrast to earlier tees that sat on the surface, was the peg-like "Perfectum" patented in 1892 by Percy Ellis of England. American dentist William Lowell introduced the most common form of tee used today, the simple wooden peg with a flared top.

Guitar (1886)Instruments similar to the guitar have been popular for at least 5,000 years. The six string classical guitar first appeared in Spain but was itself the product of a long and complex history of diverse influences. Like virtually all other stringed European instruments, the guitar ultimately traces back thousands of years, via the Middle East, to a common ancient origin from instruments then known in central Asia and India. It is therefore very distantly related with contemporary instruments such as the Iranian tanbur and setar and the Indian sitar. The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying all the essential features of a guitar being played is a 3300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard.

More info:
http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/BriefHistory.html

hair brush (1898)An early US patent for a recognizably modern hairbrush went to Hugh Rock in 1854 (US Design Patent no. D645), though surely there were hairbrushes long before there was a US Patent Office.

The claim that Lyda Newman's brush was the first with "synthetic bristles" is false: her patent mentions nothing about synthetic bristles and is concerned only with a new way of making the handle detachable from the head. Besides, a hairbrush that included "elastic wire teeth" in combination with natural bristles had already been patented by Samuel Firey in 1870 (US, #106680). Nylon bristles weren't possible until the invention of nylon in 1935.

hand stamp (1883 )The earliest known postal handstamp was brought into use by Henry Bishop, Postmaster General of Great Britain, in the year 1661. The stamp imprinted the mail with a bisected circle containing the month and the date.
See: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~ears/bishop.html

Horse Shoe (1885)
Look at these patents:
#33709, 48623, 48827, 50952, 56065, 57420, 62076, 74892, 80213, 86014, 142590, 148696, 171626, 199422, 206939, 222700, 246928, 280816, 289402, 294990, 301721, 302185, 303692, 304516, 304853, 308085, 308449, 322652, 334658, 334659, 334660, 337090, 346497, 353354, 365403, 380800, 429460, 435104, 451332

Ice cream scooper (1897)What is the patent number? Any more info on this?

improv. sugar makingInventions, not improvements.

I'll do the other 1/2 later...

EDIT: damn, I can't get the code to work.

Post edited at 10:27 am on Aug. 23, 2008 by kidd rune

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insect-destroyer gun A. C. Richard February 28, 1899

Any info on this? Patents? Anything?

ironing board Sarah Boone December 30, 1887

Of the several hundred US patents on ironing boards granted prior to Sarah Boone's, the first three went to William Vandenburg in 1858 (patents #19390, #19883, #20231). The first American female patentee of an ironing board is probably Sarah Mort of Dayton, Ohio, who received patent #57170 in 1866. In 1869, Henry Soggs of Columbus, Pennsylvania earned US patent #90966 for an ironing board resembling the modern type, with folding legs, adjustable height, and a cover. Another nice example of a modern-looking board was designed by J.H. Mallory in 1871, patent #120296.

key chain F. J. Loudin January 9, 1894

Patent for: Key Chain
Patent number: 431859
Filing date: Feb 20, 1890
Issue date: Jul 1890
Inventor: JUSTUS A. TRAUT
http://www.google.com/patents?id=SeRVAAAAEBAJ

lantern Michael C. Harvey August 19, 1884

http://tinyurl.com/lanternpatents

lawn mower L. A. Burr May 19, 1889

English engineer Edwin Budding invented the first reel-type lawn mower (with blades arranged in a cylindrical pattern) and had it patented in England in 1830. In 1868 the United States issued patent #73807 to Amariah M. Hills of Connecticut, who went on to establish the Archimedean Lawn Mower Co. in 1871. By 1888, the US Patent Office had granted 138 patents for lawn mowers (Butterworth, Growth of Industrial Art). Doubtlessly there were even more by the time Burr got his patent in 1899.

Some website authors want Burr to have invented the first "rotary blade" mower, with a centrally mounted spinning blade. But his patent #624749 shows yet another twist on the old reel mower, differing in only a few details with Budding's original.

lawn sprinkler J. W. Smith May 4, 1897

The first US patent with the title "lawn sprinkler" was issued to J. Lessler of Buffalo, New York in 1871 (#121949). Early examples of water-propelled, rotating lawn sprinklers were patented by J. Oswald in 1890 (#425340) and J. S. Woolsey in 1891 (#457099) among a gazillion others.

Smith's patent shows just another rotating sprinkler, and McCoy's 1899 patent was for a turtle-shaped sprinkler.

lemon squeezer J. Thomas White December 8, 1893

The turkish people actually made the first Lemon Squeezer. It was found in K�tahya, Turkey and dates to the first quarter of the 18th century.
Carswell, John (1971). The Lemon-Squeezer; an Unique Form of Turkish Pottery, p. 36

Also, on July 3 1860, the "Orange Juice Extractor" was made by Oliver R. Long, and it clearly says:
"The invention relates to improvements in devises for extracting the juice from oranges and other fruits and vegetables capable of [yielding] their natural juices upon the application of mechanical pressure."

http://www.google.com/patents?id=twBwAAAAEBAJ
another lemon squeezer before the negro invention

lock W. A. Martin July 23, 18--

Wooden locks and keys were in use as early as 4,000 years ago in Egypt.

Here's a site dedicated to the history of locks.
http://www.locks.ru/germ/informat/schlagehistory.htm

lubricating cup Ellijah McCoy November 15, 1895

The oil cup, which automatically delivers a steady trickle of lubricant to machine parts while the machine is running, predates McCoy's career; a description of one appears in the May 6, 1848 issue of Scientific American. The automatic "displacement lubricator" for steam engines was developed in 1860 by John Ramsbottom of England, and notably improved in 1862 by James Roscoe of the same country. The "hydrostatic" lubricator originated no later than 1871.

Variants of the phrase Real McCoy appear in Scottish literature dating back to at least 1856 � well before Elijah McCoy could have been involved.

Read [url]http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/mccoy/ if you wish...

lunch pail James Robinson 1887

In 1876, HERMAN W. SOHUSSLER created "IMPROVEMENT IN LUNCH-PAILS"

Patent number: 170903
Filing date: Sep 15, 1876
Issue date: Dec 7, 1875

[url]http://www.google.com/patents?id=pMZMAAAAEBAJ

Another:
Name: IMPROVEMENT IN LUNCH-PAILS
Patent number: 195050
Issue date: Sep 11, 1877
Inventor: THOMAS K EUSSELL
[url]http://www.google.com/patents?id=DCZvAAAAEBAJ

Both before the invention of the lunch pail? Ludicrous I say! Time traveling is too common!

mail box Paul L. Downing October 27, 1891

The US Postal Service says that "Street boxes for mail collection began to appear in large [US] cities by 1858." They appeared in Europe even earlier, according to historian Laurin Zilliacus:

Mail boxes as we understand them first appeared on the streets of Belgian towns in 1848. In Paris they came two years later, while the English received their 'pillar boxes' in 1855.
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Laurin Zilliacus, Mail for the World, p. 178 (New York, J. Day Co., 1953)

From the same book (p.178), "Private mail boxes were invented in the United States in about 1860."

Eventually, letter drop boxes came equipped with inner lids to prevent miscreants from rummaging through the mail pile. The first of many US patents for such a purpose was granted in 1860 to John North of Middletown, Connecticut (US Pat. #27466).

mop Thomas W. Stewart June 11, 1893

Mops go back a long, long way before 1893. Just how long, is hard to determine. Restricting our view to the modern era, we find that the United States issued its first mop patent (#241) in 1837 to Jacob Howe, called "Construction of Mop-Heads and the Mode of Securing them upon Handles." One of the first patented mops with a built-in wringer was the one H. & J. Morton invented in 1859 (US #24049).

The mop specified in Stewart's patent #499402 has a lever-operated clamp for "holding the mop rags"; the lever is not a wringing mechanism as erroneously reported on certain websites. Other inventors had already patented mops with lever-operated clamps, one of the first being Greenleaf Stackpole in 1869 (US Pat. #89803).

motor Frederick M. Jones June 27, 1939

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) patented an Alternating Current motor.

Next, a motor vehicle patent was created in Feb 21, 1935 (US#2163748)
Now, how can a motor vehicle be created before the motor? TOO MUCH TIME TRAVELING, DAMNIT!

peanut butter George Washington Carver1896

Already discussed.

pencil sharpener J. L. Love November 23, 1897

Bernard Lassimone of Limoges, France invented one of the earliest sharpeners, receiving French patent number 2444 in 1828. An apparent ancestor of the 20th-century hand-cranked sharpener was patented by G. F. Ballou in 1896 (US #556709) and marketed by the A.B. Dick Company as the "Planetary Pencil Pointer." As the user held the pencil stationary and turned the crank, twin milling cutters revolved around the tip of the pencil and shaved it into a point.

Love's patent #594114 shows a variation on a different kind of sharpener, in which one would crank the pencil itself around in a stirring motion. An earlier device of a similar type was devised in 1888 by G.H. Courson (patent #388533), and sold under the name "President Pencil Sharpener."

More info:
http://www.officemuseum.com/pencil_sharpeners.htm
http://www.officemuseum.com/sharpener_gallery_1800s.htm

phone transmitter Granville T. Woods December 2, 1884

http://www.google.com/patents?id=2SZcAAAAEBAJ
Name: TELEPHONE-TRANSMITTER
Patent number: 291312
Issue date: Jan 1884
Inventor: Drawbaugh

record player arm Joseph Hunger Dickenson January 8, 1819

I need more info on this. No patents or anything. If you can locate something to prove it, you won this one.

refrigerator J. Standard June 14, 1891

Already disproven.

riding saddles W. D. Davis October 6, 1895

Can't find a patent or anything. If this is explaining HORSE saddles, then you are centuries off. Try 700-800 BC by the Assyrians.

rolling pin John W. Reed 1864

shampoo headrest C. O. Bailiff October 11, 1898

Again, stated in his patent (US#612008) another "Improvement"

spark plug Edmond Berger February 2, 1839

This is just a theory. Nikola Tesla patented the spark plug a few years after 1839, but Edmond Berger has no patent or any real proof behind his invention.

stethoscope Imhotep Ancient Egypt

Egyptian... Negro... yeah...

stove T. A. Carrington July 25, 1876

Anceint Chinese and Japanese stoves:
http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/k/kamado.htm
http://www.yutopian.com/cooking/history/

straightening comb Madam C. J. Walker Approx 1905

No evidence. Find a patent or something. The comb itself is anceint, I'd assume that a straightening comb would've existed before 1905.

street sweeper Charles B. Brooks March 17, 1890

Brooks' patent was for a modified version of a common type of street sweeper cart that had long been known, with a rotary brush that swept refuse onto an elevator belt and into a trash bin. In the United States, street sweepers started being patented in the 1840s, and by 1900 the Patent Office had issued about 300 patents for such machines.

thermostat control Frederick M. Jones February 23, 1960

Dr. Willis Carrier built the first machine to control both the temperature(air conditioner) and humidity(thermostat) of indoor air. He received the first of many patents in 1906 (US patent #808897, for the "Apparatus for Treating Air"). In 1911 he published the formulae that became the scientific basis for air conditioning design, and four years later formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation to develop and manufacture AC systems.

traffic light Garrett Morgan November 20, 1923

Disproven.

tricycle M. A. Cherry May 6, 1886

In Germany in the year 1680 or thereabouts, paraplegic watchmaker Stephan Farffler built his own tricycle at 22 years of age. He designed it to be pedaled with the hands, for obvious reasons.

See this:
[url]http://www.retropedalcars.com/tricycle_history1.htm

typewriter Burridge & Marshman April 7, 1885

Henry Mill, an English engineer, was the first person to patent the basic idea of the typewriter in 1714. The first working typewriter known to have actually been built was the work of Pellegrino Turri of Italy in 1808. The familiar QWERTY keyboard, developed by C. L. Sholes and C. Glidden, reached the market in 1874. In 1878 change-case keys were added that enabled the typing of both capital and small letters.

Look at this:
http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/tw-history.html

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