Start your year with some amazing facts to
impress your family, friends, and neighbors.
January 2, 1975 - The
U.S. Patent Office was renamed "U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office" to incorporate its new function as a trademarking
center.
January 3, 1967 - Harry
Thomason received a patent for an apparatus for cooling and
heating a house using solar energy.
January 5, 1965 -
"Home of the Whopper" was trademarked by Burger King.
January 7, 1913 - Patent was granted to William Burton for the
manufacture of gasoline.
January 9, 1906 - Campbell's soup was trademark registered.
January 13, 1930 - The first Mickey Mouse cartoon appeared in
U.S.
January 17, 1882 - Leroy Firman received a patent for the
telephone switchboard.
January 20, 1929 - "In Old Arizona," the first outdoor
feature-length talking motion picture, was made.
January 21, 1954 - The
first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched.
January 24, 1935 - The first canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale,"
was sold by the Kruger Brewing Company of Richmond, VA.
January 26, 1875 - The first electric dental drill was patented
by George Green.
January 27, 1880 - Patent 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.