This Day in Patent History - On January 27, 1880, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for"an electric lamp for giving light by incandescence" On January 27, 1880, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for”an electric lamp for giving light by incandescence”. Edison famously summarized his quest for the…
This Day in Patent History - On October 17, 1888, Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). Edison claimed is that it will ‘do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear.’ On October 17, 1888, Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). Edison claimed is that it will ‘do for the…
