A patent was received for Ole Kirk Christiansen’s LEGO plastic bricks.
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A steamboat patent was granted to the American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton.
Mary Kies became the first woman ever to acquire a patent.
Inventor Benjamin J. Lane patented the first self-contained gas mask.
Robert Goddard was granted a patent for the rocket-powered aircraft.
American inventor Eli Whitney was granted a patent for a ground-breaking new type of cotton gin.
