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| 1853 | IL | Tylersville (Unknown county) | Brown, George | George Brown (Tylersville, Illinois) patents a series of innovative planter patents starting in 1853, and into the 1860s : Furrows that open with edged runners; corn 'precisely placed under the control of an operator; and a closing wheel that covers seeds automatically and in check to allow for cultivating in both directions. Brown s is the first successful horse-drawn, two-row pull-type planter, with manual stick-type metering. (A hand lever and seat on the front part of the machine allow a second operator to mechanically drop the seed.) In 1858, Brown improves his planter by adding a shoe or furrow opener to break open the ground for the seed; he further improves it in 1860 by curving the shoes to better open the furrow. Kinze History of Planting - [source: http://www.kinzemfg.com/company/plantrev/timeline.html] | |
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| Patent No. 320855 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Pullman (Adams County) - added 01/05/07 | Decker, Cornelius and Trombly, Alexander | Car-Axle |
| IL | Quincy (Adams County) | Fisk, James | Wire-Fence Machine | ||
| Patent No. 321359 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Quincy (Adams County) - added 02/02/07 | Harrop, Joseph M. and Ash, Joseph | Fence-Making Machine |
| IL | Quincy (Adams County) | Stahl, G. H. | machine for loading cartridges | ||
| Patent No. 320703 and 320704 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Quincy (Adams County) added 01/05/07 | Schmitt, Phillip L. and Peerless Oil Ejector Company | Lubricator |
| Patent No. 315738 | IL | Quincy (Adams County) added July 26, 2004 | Cooper, William H. |
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June 23, 1885 | IL | Quincy (Adams County) - added January 1, 2007 | Hanna, Robert W. and Cabell, Milton S. | Steam Machinery Lubricator |
| Patent No. 320854 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Quincy (Adams County) - added January 1, 2007 | Curtis, Charles R. S. | Fire-Escape and Elevator |
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| Trademark Reg. #48847 | circa 1st used 9/15/1903 | IL | Princeton (Bureau County) added 7/12/04 | Cusic, Marshall M. | Hairilla (removal of superfluous hair) |
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| Patent No. 320983 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Sidney (Champaign County) added January 1, 2007 | Temple, Winfield Scott | Car-Coupling |
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| Patent No. 321735 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Grove City (Christian County) added 2/09/07 | Lindsly, James Melvern | Nut-Lock |
| Patent No. 320153 | June 16, 1885 | IL | Millersville (Christian County) | Miller, Sylvester J. | Portable stacking-frame |
| Trademark Reg. #73834 | 1908 | IL | Taylorville (Christian County) added 7/12/04 | E-Z Opener Bag Company | Marvel paper bags |
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| 1883 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Mayer, Oscar F.; Mayer, Gottfried; Mayer, Max | Oscar F. Mayer and his brothers Gottfried and Max started a meat market in Chicago. By 1906, Oscar Mayer® is one of the first meatpackers to obtain the Federal Meat Inspection stamp of approval. Business had become so good that, instead of hand-carrying large orders to customers' homes in the neighborhood (as most meat markets customarily did), the Mayer's made their deliveries by horse-drawn wagons to all of Chicago - and its suburbs. In 1904, when some of the largest packing houses were still selling their own meats anonymously, the Mayer's took the bold step of affixing a brand name to their products. In 1924, it introduced packaged sliced bacon, for which it received a U.S. patent. And in 1929 (a year after Oscar F. Mayer was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and his son, Oscar G. Mayer, named company President), Oscar Mayer & Co. began wrapping its wieners with a yellow paper band. This made OSCAR MAYER® Wieners recognizable at a time when most wieners were sold in bulk, without any packaging, from a display box. The yellow band was applied by hand, and bore the company name and U.S. government inspection stamp. In 1936, "Little Oscar and the WIENERMOBILE" started the advertising campaign for Oscar Mayer & Co. In 1963, the famous "wiener jingle" first appeared in Oscar Mayer commercials. General Foods Corp. bought Oscar Mayer & Co. in 1981. [Read more at this website: http://www.kraftfoods.com/om/omm_history2.htm] | |
| 1919 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | eggbeater made in Chicago | ||
| Patent No. 320644 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County)added 1/05/07 | Fillmann, Emil | Molding manufacturing for less |
| Patent No. 320622 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County)added 1/05/07 | Brown, Aaron L. | Temporary Binder |
| 1910 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Sirrine, Earnest | Automatic Traffic System - Earnest Sirrine of Chicago, Illinois patented (976,939) perhaps the first automatic street traffic system in 1910. Sirrine's system used the non-illuminated words "stop" and "proceed". | |
| Patent No. 315707 | April 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added July 26, 2004 | Briggs, Orlando P. | Machine for Uncoiling Wire |
| Patent No. 315715 | April 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added July 26, 2004 | Bush, Lewis, Jr. | Saw-Sharpening Machine |
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May 25, 1943 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Bradberry, Henrietta Mahim | Bed Rack - Henrietta Mahim Bradberry of Chicago, Illinois patented a bed rack, which was an attachment to the bed that permitted air to pass through and refreshen worn clothes. Device operated pneumatically and was adapted to discharge torpedoes under the water surface. May 25, 1943 - [Source: African American Women Inventors - http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/women_inventors.html] |
| Patent No. 320457 | June 23, 1885 |
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Chicago (Cook County) | Byrne, Joseph | Bottle-Stopper |
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Chicago (Cook County) | Wright, William | Chicago - Calumet Baking Soda - In 1888 at age thirty-seven, salesman William Wright took his life savings of $3,500 and plunged it into developing his own baking soda. After much experimentation to differentiate his product from others, Wright tried adding egg white to the formula. It worked. By the next year, the production and sale of Calumet Baking Powder was a six-man operation....The company incorporated in Illinois in 1892 (Excellent history about the Wright Family, including their thoroughbred horses at http://www.thoroughbredlegends.com/citation/chapter_one.html] | |
| Patent No. 320357 | June 16, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Crosby, William F. and Huber, Jacob (of Ohio) | Wrench |
| 1831 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | McCormick, Cyrus | Cyrus McCormick of Virginia was responsible for liberating farm workers from hours of back-breaking labor by introducing the farmers to his newly invented mechanical reaper in July, 1831. By 1847, Cyrus McCormick began the mass manufacture of his reaper in a Chicago factory, founding what eventually became the International Harvester Company. He is known as the "Father of Modern Agriculture" [Read more at this website: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmccormick.htm] | |
| Patent No. 318946 | June 2, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Bowbin, John and Croker, Michael H. | Device for Removing Window-Sash From Frames |
| Patent No. 318952 | June 2, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Bush, Jr., Lewis | Bush, Jr., Lewis and American Machinery Company Tool for Dressing Emery-Wheels |
| Patent No. 320338 | June 16, 1886 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Dawson, William G. | Device for Converting Reciprocating Into Rotary Motion |
| Patent No. 321348 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Dunshee, Carlos E. | Lumber-Piler |
| Patent No. 320241 | June 16, 1886 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Durkee, George B. and Golding, John F. | Machine for Making Slashed Metallic Screening |
| Patent No. 320242 | June 16, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Durkee, George B. and Golding, John F. | Process of Making Slashed Metallic Screening http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blhome.htm |
| 1910 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Bendix, Vincent | Electric Starter - In 1910, Vincent Bendix patented the Bendix drive for electric starters, an improvement to the hand cranked starters of the time. The first automobile to use the Bendix starter drive was the 1914 Chevrolet "Baby Grand". The Bendix starter became a standard in all cars produced in the United States. [Source and more info here: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_vincent_bendix.htm] | |
| 1869 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Gray, Elisha | Chicago - Elisha Gray invented a number of telegraphic devices and in 1869 was one of two partners who founded what became Western Electric Company. Here's an extract from Elisha Gray's Patent Caveat filed on February 14, 1876: To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Elisha Gray, of Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new art of transmitting vocal sounds telegraphically, of which the following is a specification: It is the object of my invention to transmit the tones of the human voice through a telegraphic circuit, and reproduce them at the receiving end of the line, so that actual conversations can be carried on by persons at long distances apart. ...... On February 14, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent application was filed at the United States Patent Office; Elisha Gray's attorney filed a caveat for a telephone just a few hours later. Bell was awarded the patent. When Bell first transmitted the sound of a human voice over a wire, he used a liquid transmitter of the microphone type previously developed by Gray which was unlike any described in Bell's patent applications to that date, and an electromagnetic metal-diaphragm receiver of the kind built and publicly used by Gray several months earlier. [Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents/pande02.html] | |
| Patent No. 318973 | June 2, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Fentno, John H. | Animal-Guard |
| Patent No. 322177 | 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Goode, Sarah E. | Folding Cabinet Bed - Sarah E. Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent, #322,177, which was issued on July 14, 1885. She was a business woman and inventor. Goode invented the folding cabinet bed, a space-saver that folded up against the wall into a cabinet. When folded up, it could be used as a desk, complete with compartments for stationery and writing supplies. Goode owned a furniture store in Chicago, Illinois, and invented the bed for people living in small apartments. Goode's patent was the first one obtained by an African-American woman inventor (patent #322,177, approved on July 14, 1885) [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml] View a picture of the bed at http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgoode.htm |
| 1925 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Hall, Lloyd Augustus | Food Preservation Processes - 1925 - An industrial food chemist, Lloyd Augustus Hall revolutionized the meatpacking industry with his development of curing salts for the processing and reserving of meats. He developed a technique of "flash-driving" (evaporating) and a technique of sterilization with ethylene oxide which is still used by medical professionals today. Born in Elgin, Illinois on June 20, 1894, and raised in Aurora, Illinois,. Hall invented new ways to preserve food. In 1925, Hall was the chief chemist and director of research at Griffith Laboratories and it was there that Hall invented his processes for preserving meat using sodium chloride and nitrate and nitrite crystals..... Hall also pioneered the use of antioxidants [Source: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bll_a_hall.htm Read more here: http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hall2.html] | |
| Patent No. 320126 | June 16, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Gates, Ryerson D. | Pulverizing Machine |
| Patent No. 320127 | June 16, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Giles, Charles K. | Dust-Proof Case for Watches |
| Patent No. 320905 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/1/07 | Alsip, Frank and Drake, Chester T. | Clay-Crushing Machine |
| Patent No. 320911 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County)- added 1/6/07 | Cadwell, Lydia J. | Apparatus for Treating the Products of Rendering-Tanks |
| Patent No. 320240 | June 16, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Golden, John F. | Process of Making Metallic Screening Material |
| Patent No. 320241 | June 16, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Golding, John F. and Durkee, George B. | Machine for Making Slashed Metallic Screening |
| Patent No. 320242 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Golding, John F. and Durkee, George B. | Process of Making Slashed Metallic Screening | |
| Patent No. 318982 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Gross, Henry | Permutation-Lock | |
| Patent No. 320355 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Haggett, George W. (with Cook, John A. of Englewood, Ill.) | Tag-Holder for Railroad-Cars | |
| Patent No. 318988 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Hubka, Frank and Hubka, Anton | Window-Screen | |
| 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Jenney, William LeBaron | Chicago - In 1885 - The first skyscraper is constructed in Chicago William LeBaron Jenney, architect, engineer, teacher, and landscape and urban designer, is credited with the invention of the steel frame building, making possible the skyscraper - the Home Insurance Building in Chicago. It was completed in 1885, was 138 feet high, and 10 stories tall and was the first tall building to be supported by a metal skeleton of vertical columns and horizontal beams. It was demolished in 1931. | |
| 1893 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Issued by Postmaster General John Wanamaker in 1893. The controversial first commemorative stamps were the Columbian Exposition Issue. issued to commemorate the World Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 1 to October 30, 1893. The stamps celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World. [Read more: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus7.htm] | ||
| 1914 | IL | Omaha, Nebraska (later moved to Chicago) | Kool-Aid - The powdered drink Kool-Aid was invented in 1927 by the chemist Edwin Perkins of Nebraska Omaha. Perkins started a company in 1914 that sold perfume and calling cards; it was called the Perkins Products Company. Originally located in Hendley, Nebraska, they moved to Hastings, Nebraska (about 90 miles west of Lincoln) in 1920, and expanded their product line to include spices, medicines, more toilet preparations, and other household items. Kool-Aid was originally a liquid called "Fruit Smack," and was sold in a 4-ounce bottles. It was later renamed Kool-Ade (and later, Kool-Aid), and sold in powdered form in packets. The seven original Kool-Aid flavors were: Cherry, Lemon-Lime, Grape, Orange, Root Beer, Strawberry, and Raspberry. The Kool-Aid factory later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and was bought by General Foods Corporation in 1953.[source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml (Enchanted Learning.com)] | ||
| Patent No. 320483 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Lindle, Joseph | Combined water cooler and filter | |
| Patent No. 320484 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Lindle, Joseph | Water-Cooler and Refrigerator | |
| Patent No. 320567 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Lord, Andrew H.; Hitchcock, Charles H.; Cooper, John A | Tile-Setting | |
| 1903 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Kraft, J. L. | Mass-production of Cheese - In 1903, J.L. Kraft started a wholesale cheese business in Chicago. By 1914, J.L. Kraft & Bros. Co. opened their first cheese factory in Stockton, Illinois, within a year they begin producing process cheese in tins. [Highlights and History of Kraft Foods here: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blkraft.htm] | |
| Patent No. 320570 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/1/07 | Marcus, Joseph | Windmill |
| Patent No. 319005 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Mehring, George | Fuel-Magazine for Steam-Generators | |
| 1930 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Outdoor Games Company - Pinball - - ? - - In 1930 - | ||
| Patent No. 320390 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Pedersen, Sigward and Sernendinger, Thomas (of Pennsylvania) | Safety Device for Railway-Cars | |
| Patent No. 320587 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Rathknecht, Victor | Nursery Chair and Carriage |
| Patent No. 321055 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/07/07 | Robinson, William | Sash-Fastener |
| Patent No. 321057 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/07/07 | Scribner, Charles E. (Assignor to the Western Electric Company) | Multiple Switch-Board System |
| Patent No. 321062 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/07/07 | Tideman, Sven (assignor to Edmund D. Barry of Grand Rapids MI) | Mechanical Movement |
| 1928 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Joyner, Marjorie | Permanent Wave Machine - Marjorie Joyner was granted a patent for a permanent wave machine which could wave the hair of both white and African-American people. November 27,1928 Patent #1,693,515 [Source: African American Women Inventors - http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/women_inventors.html] | |
| Patent No. 320312 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Thayer, John C. | Attachment for Lubricators | |
| Patent No. 966677 | 1908 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Fisher, Alva J. | The first electric-powered washing machine (the Thor) was introduced in 1908, by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois. Alva J. Fisher was the inventor. The machine was a drum type with a galvanized tub and an electric motor, for which a patent was issued on Aug. 9, 1910 (US patent #966677 - see patent drawing HERE). [Interesting history of washing machines at http://www.borax.com/pioneer26.html] |
| Patent No. 320195 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Valk, Henry | Window-Sash | |
| Patent No. 320515 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Van DePoele, charles J. | Electro-Magnetic Reciprocating Engine | |
| 1893 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Judson, Whitcomb L. | Whitcomb L. Judson, a Chicago inventor with dozens of patents, invented the a metal zipper device with locking teeth in 1890. Judson patented his "clasp-locker'' On August 29, 1893, Judson received a patent for his "clasp-locker," a somewhat reliable hook and eye fastener. Later in 1893, he exhibited this new invention at the Chicago World's Fair. He never succeeded in marketing his new device. The zipper was improved by the Swedish-American engineer, Gideon Sundbach, and was named by the B.F. Goodrich company in 1923. Judson died in 1909, before his device became commonly used and well known. [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml] | |
| Patent No. 319047 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Adcock, Edmund | Fire Extension-Ladder | |
| Patent No. 320567 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Lord, Andrew assignor to Hithcock, Charles H and Cooper, John A. | Tile-Setting tool |
| Patent No. 321025 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Hayes, Martin P. (and one half to Joseph M. Duncan of Warsaw, New York) | Evaporating Apparatus for Brine, etc. |
| Patent No. 319030 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Ross, George P. | Glove Fastener | |
| 1893 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) | Wrigley, William, Jr. | Wrigley Juicy Fruit Gum - 1893 - Wrigley Juicy Fruit and Spearmint brands introduced. In 1914, Wrigley Doublemint brand was created. William Wrigley, Jr. and Henry Fleer were responsible for adding the popular mint and fruit extracts to a chicle chewing gum. [Read more about William Wrigley, Jr. at this website: http://www.wrigley.com/wrigley/kids/kids_report_wm_wrigley_jr.asp] | |
| Trademark Reg. #11408 | circa June 16, 1884 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Senour Manufacturing Company | Monarch Mixed Paint |
| Patent No. 320743 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 01/06/07 | Ames, Albert C. | Traction-Engine |
| Trademark Reg. #12857 | circa December 15, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | N. K. Fairbank & Company | Fairy Soap |
| Trademark Reg. #20175 | circa July 30, 1891 |
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| Patent No. 320685 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Porter, Henry B. | Electric Bell |
| Patent No. 320618 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County)added 1/05/07 | Boyle, David | Apparatus for Attemperating or Cooling Beer |
| Patent No. 320789 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County)added 1/05/07 | Housley, Daniel W. | Spring-Hinge |
| Patent No. 320676 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago added 1/05/07 | Ott, William | Sofa-Bed |
| Patent No. 320833 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Anderson, Edward | Automatic Cradle-Rocker |
| Patent No. 320921 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Tubman, William and Schumacher, William | Compound for Insulating Electric Wires |
| Patent No. 320837 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Boyington, Levi C. | Folding Bed |
| Patent No. 320838 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Brainard, Adelbert M. | Generator for Hydrocarbon-Vapor Burners |
| Patent No. 320515 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 1/05/07 | Van DePoele, Charles J. | Electro-Magnetic Reciproacting Engine |
| Patent No. 321363 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Hurlbut, Daniel N. | Means for Driving Electrical Conductors into Conduits |
| Patent No. 321390 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Scribner, Charles E. | Duplicate Switch-Board System for Telephones (Patented in England Nov. 29, 1879, and France Jan. 18, 1880 and in Belgium January 18, 1888) |
| Patent No. 321420 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Culver, Arthur T. and Parkhurst, Josiah J. | Horseshoe-bar |
| Patent No. 321427 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Elmes, Charles F. | Rolling-Mill |
| Patent No. 321518 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Moore, Edwards Y. | Sliding-Door Fixture |
| Patent No. 321529 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Rate, Edward F. | Husking-Glove |
| Patent No. 321533 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Richardson, George W and Shepard, Jason H. and Tawler, Willard A. | Dumping-Wagon Bottom |
| Patent No. 321546 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Steck, Ernst - The Fire Extinguisher Manufacturing Company | Vehicle-Brake |
| Patent No. 321553 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/02/07 | Warner, James C. - Western Electric Company | Spring-Jack Switch |
| Patent No. 321615 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/04/07 | Letter, George Albert | Socket for Twist-Drills |
| Patent No. 321728 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Jamieson, George | Safety-Guard and Work-Holder for Edge-Molding Machines |
| Patent No. 321731 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Lee, J. Edward | Display Box and Package for Laces |
| Patent No. 321732 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Lee, J. Edward | Handkerchief |
| Patent No. 321736 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Mason, Henry and Hildreth, James H.; Riordan, John; and Trowbridge, W. E. S. | Fuel-Injector for Furnaces |
| Patent No. 321742 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Miller, Albert F. and the Burr Bed Company | Bedstead |
| Patent No. 321745 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Nelson, Oliver R. | Hydraulic Press Attachment |
| Patent No. 321783 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Blades, Leonard J. | Ticket-Case |
| Patent No. 321816 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Housley, Daniel W. | Tilting Chair |
| Patent No. 321829 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/09/07 | Mackley, Henry and Ross, Joseph B. | Non-Siphoning Attachment for Closet and Other Traps |
| Patent No. 321877 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/11/07 | Abell, Joshua L. | Strainer for Liquids |
| Patent No. 321893 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/11/07 | Gross, Henry | Time-Lock |
| Patent No. 321911 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/11/07 | Powers, David J. to the Union Wire Mattress Company | Folding Bed |
| Patent No. 321912 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/11/07 | Powers, David | Folding Bed |
| Patent No. 321951 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/11/07 | Culver, Fitz E. | Furnace-Grate |
| Patent No. 321957 | July 14, 1885 | Il | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/11/07 | Enoch, John | Halter |
| Patent No. 321933 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/13/07 | McRoberts, Mortimer | Lantern |
| Patent No. 322019 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/13/07 | Spencer, George H. | Grapple |
| Patent No. 322031 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/13/07 | Wixon, Howard and Menard, George | Box-Pulling Attachment |
| Patent No. 322056 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/13/07 | Geier, John Leo and Rendtorff, Hermann | Apparatus for Crystallizing Tin-Plate |
| Patent No. 322257 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/16/07 | Chase, Henry I. and Chase, Philander F. and Chase, Henry G. | Process of Drying Grain |
| Patent No. 322264 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/16/07 | Dicey, Elmer C. | Cut-Off-Valve Gear |
| Patent No. 322065 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/13/07 | Norton, Edwain and Norton, Oliver W. | Soldering-Machine |
| Patent No. 322177 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/16/07 | Goode, Sarah E. | Cabinet-Bed |
| Patent No. 322212 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/16/07 | Thomas, Nicholas | Lathe for Turning Cross-Head Pins |
| Patent No. 322282 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/16/07 | Hall, Samuel L. | Baker's Oven |
| Patent No. 322287 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/16/07 | Herrmann, Henry and Doolittle, William B. | Street-Bridge for Fire-Hose |
| Patent No. 322309 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/16/07 | Miehle, Robert | Printing-Machine |
| Patent No. 322402 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/17/07 | Tierney, Catharine A. | Guide for Use in Cutting Garments |
| Patent No. 322417 | July 21, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/17/07 | Byrne, John J. | Thermostat for Fire-Alarms |
| Patent No. 322436 | July 21, 1885 | IL | Chicago (Cook County) added 2/17/07 | Ganser, Nicolas H. | Billiard-Table |
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Evanston (Cook County) | Pajeau, Charles | Charles Pajeau invented Tinkertoy Construction Sets. Pajeau was a stonemason from Evanston, Illinois who established The Toy Tinkers company. Nearly one million sets were sold in the year following the introduction of Tinkertoys at the 1913 American Toy Fair in New York. Pajeau was inspired by watching children poke sticks into the holes of thread spools. - Excellent History at this website: http://www.hasbropreschool.com/tinkertoy/pl/page.history/dn/default.cfm | ||
| Patent No. 320355 | IL | Englewood (Cook County) | Cook, John A. (with Haggett, George W. of Chicago) | Tag-Holder for Railroad-Cars | |
| IL | Englewood (Cook County) | Bason, Thomas | floor-latch | ||
| Patent No. 321433 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Englewood (Cook County) added 02/02/07 | Goff, Francis C. | Coffin |
| Patent No. 321469 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Irving Park (Cook County) added 02/02/07 | Wilson, Samuel R. | Needle-Threader for Sewing-Machines |
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Kensington (Cook County) added 7/12/04 | Peelman, Albano F. | Combined Saw-set and Nail -Punch | |
| Patent No. 321076 | June 30, 1885 | IL | LaGrange (Cook County) added 01/07/07 | Baldwin, Myrton T. | Infant's Posing-Chair |
| IL | Park Ridge (Cook County) | Encap Development Company | Born and died in Schuyler County but company was in Park Ridge, Illinois. All I have is that he started Encap Development Company which developed the "Chia Pet". | ||
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Hutsonville (Crawford County) | Coon, A. C. | wrench | ||
| Patent No. 319174 | IL | Palestine (Crawford County) | Beam, Henry T. | Car-Couupling | |
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| Trademark Patent #157,124 | 1874 | IL | DeKalb (DeKalb County) | Glidden, Joseph and Kelly, Michael | BARBED WIRE. United States Patent #157,124 was granted to Joseph Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois on November 24th, 1874 for improved barbed wire fencing. Nine patents for improvements to wire fencing were granted by the U.S. Patent Office to American inventors, beginning with Michael Kelly in November 1868 and ending with Joseph Glidden in November 1874. The new fencing not only simplified the work of the rancher and farmer, but it significantly affected political, social, and economic practices throughout the region. [Source and more info here: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbarbed_wire.htm] |
| Patent No. 321511 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Sycamore (DeKalb County) added 2/02/07 | Marsh, William W. and Blood, Maurice E. | Grain-Binding Harvester |
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Clinton (DeWitt County) | R.W. MCCLELLAND | running gear | ||
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| Patent No. 322246 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Arcola (Douglas County) added 02/16/07 | Boyle, William C. | Wagon Running-Gear |
| 1880 | IL | Tuscola (Douglas County) | Gurelle, Johnny | Raggedy Ann and Andy, created In 1880 | |
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| Trademark Reg. #84224 | circa 1910 | IL | Downers Grove (DuPage County) added 7/12/04 | Turtle Flexible Steel Lacing Co. | metallic belt-fasteners |
| Patent No. 320984 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Downers Grove (DuPage County) added 2/10/07 | Anderson, Charles and Farrar, Eugene W. | Combined Screen and Storm Door |
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| Patent No. 320984 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Carbery (Ford County) added 01/06/07 | Theis, Leonard | Cultivator Attachment |
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| 1842 | IL | Canton (Fulton County) 7/16/04 janine | Parlin, William | Another skilled blacksmith, William Parlin, at Canton, Illinois, began making plows about 1842, which he loaded upon a wagon and peddled through the country. Read more (with pictures!) here | |
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| Patent No. 321898 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Iroquois (Iroquois County) added 2/10/07 | Humphreys, James W. | Ditching-Plow |
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| Patent No.320671 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Murphysborough (Jackson County)
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| IL | Newton (Jasper County) | Johnsons, J. B. | plant-tray | ||
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| Patent No. 320472 | IL | Mt. Vernon (Jefferson County) | Hill, William | Latch and Lock Combined | |
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Jerseyville (Jersey County) | Doughton, Andrew | filtering-tank |
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| Trademark Reg. #89323 | 1890 | IL | Aurora (Kane County) added 7/12/04 |
American Well Works deep-well pumps, etc. A copy of the factory blueprints from 1897 owned by the Aurora Historical Society is online, compliments of the Aurora Public Library. Harvard University graduate, John Calvin Loos, Jr., was one of the AWW engineers. At least one of the city wells in El Paso, Ill., was drilled in 1882 by American Well Works.
FIRST COMMERCIAL GAS WELL SITE. In 1870 natural gas was accidentally
discovered near this spot (in Shreveport, Louisisana,) by American Well Works, which was digging a 961 foot water well for the Shreveport Ice Plant. Gas from the well was used to light the plant and is the first known commercial use of natural gas in Louisiana. (90 Market Street) http://www.shreveport.net/sites/historic/downtown.html American Well Works is a part of history elsewhere such as the City of South Bend Water Works North Pumping Station historical landmark. The pumping
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| Patent No. 322416 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Aurora (Kane County) added 02/17/07 | Burkel, Peter | Circular Toy Bowling-Alley |
| Patent No. 321045 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Batavia (Kane County) added 01/07/07 | Mole, John G. | Metallic Grinding-Ring |
| Trademark Reg. #47058, | First used 1886 | IL | Black Leaf Products Co. | ||
| Trademark Reg. #50094 | 1874 | IL | Elgin (Kane County) added 7/12/04 | Elgin National Watch Co. | |
| Trademark Reg. #48942 | circa first used 1/1/1895 | IL | St. Charles (Kane County) added 7/12/04 | St. Charles Condensing Co. | Purity Condensed Milk |
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| Patent No. 322213 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Kankakee (Kankakee County) added 2/14/07 | Ubellar, James L. | Hat and Bonnet Fastener |
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| Patent No. 3200921 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Waukegan (Lake County) added 1/06/07 | Ferguson, Robert S. (alon gwith Schumacher, William and Tubman, William of Chicago) | Compound for Insulating Electric Wires |
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La Salle (LaSalle County) added 7/12/04 | Western Clock Mfg Co | Big Ben - clocks and watches |
| Patent No. 320876 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Ottawa (LaSalle County) - added 01/06/07 | Jordan, Richard C. | Hay-Carrier |
| Trademark Reg. #79089 | circa 1910 | IL | Peru (LaSalle County) added 7/12/04 | Western Clock Mfg Co clocks | Monitor |
| Patent No. 320136 | IL | Streator (LaSalle County) | Iwan, Henry and Iwan, Louis | Tile-Ditching Hoe | |
| Patent No. 320815 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Streater (LaSalle County) added 01/06/07 | Powers, George W. and Jones, James Herbert and Powers, James M. | Chimney-Cowl |
| Patent No. 320951 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Streater (LaSalle County) added 01/06/07 | Modes, William F. | Regenerating and Reverberating Glass Furnace |
| 1911 | IL | Utica (LaSalle County) | In 1911 - Starved Rock State Park becomes the first state park in Illinois. | ||
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| Patent No. 320492 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Lukin (Lawrence County) | Moore, Samuel M. | Animal Poke |
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| Patent No. 321639 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Dwight (Livingston County) added 2/04/07 | Reeb, Charles | Knot-Tyer for Grain-Binders |
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| IL | Lincoln (Logan County) | Rankin, E., Jr. | harrow | ||
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Decatur (Macon County) added 7/12/04 | A. E. Staley Manufacturing | Cream (starch for food purposes) |
| Trademark Reg. #30910 | circa Nov 30, 1897 | IL | Decatur (Macon County) added 7/12/04 | H. Mueller Manufacturing Company | |
| Patent No. 321013 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Decatur (Macon County) added 01/07/07 | Faries, Robert | Machine for Forming Interlocking-Eyes |
| Patent No. 320673 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Elwin (Macon County) added 1/05/07 | Montgomery, James H. | Check-rower for Corn-Planters |
| Patent No. 321945 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Mt. Zion (Macon County) added 2/11/07 | Booth, Erastus L. | Buggy-Top |
| Patent No. 321945 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Mt. Zion (Macon County) added 2/11/07 | Booth, Erastus L. | Spring Attachment for Carriage-Bows |
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| 1892 | IL | Modesto (Macoupin County) | Mills, J. M. | - a device used to de-horn cattle manufactured in Modesto by J.M. Mills in 1892. | |
| Patent No. 322352 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Virden (Macoupin County) added 02/17/07 | Cox, William H. | Gate |
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| Patent No. 321047 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Alton (Madison County) added 01/07/07 | Van Blarcom, William D. (assignee by Charles Alfred Norling of St. Louis, MO) | Machine for Manufacturing Fences |
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| Patent No. 320588 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Metropolis (Massac County) | Rhoads, Solomon J. | Flower-Pot |
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| Patent No. 321972 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Adair (McDonough County) added 02/11/07 | Hunter, Joseph H. | Hand Water-Pumping Mill |
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| Patent No. 327111 | July 8, 1885 | IL | Harvard (McHenry County) added 2/09/07 | Wooster, William I. | Means for Controlling Windmills |
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| IL | Bloomington (McLean County) assigned 7/7/04 | Abraham Lincoln | Abe Lincoln was the only U.S. president to be issued a patent for his 1849 design of a device to help buoy vessels over shallow waters --- a device which was never manufactured. On April 6, 1858, Lincoln gave his first lecture on "Discoveries and Inventions" before the Young Men's Association of Bloomington, Illinois. In 1859 he delivered it at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. He repeated the lecture in Decatur, Springfield, and Pontiac, but turned down future requests, saying, "I am not a professional lecturer. Have never got up but one lecture; and that I think, a rather poor one." His law partner, William H. Herndon, recalled Lincoln's work on the project. "He began preparation in the usual way by noting down ideas on stray pieces of paper, which found a lodgment inside his hat, and finally brought forth in connected form a lecture." But unlike his political speeches and courtroom presentations, the lecture lacked life. Herndon said, "he delivered it at several towns in the central part of the State, but it was so commonplace, and met with such indifferent success, that he soon dropped it altogether." (Read more at http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/discoveries.htm) | ||
| 1857 | IL | Bloomington (McLean County) assigned 7/7/04 jre | E. R. Roe | Received a patent for improvement in mechanism for operating railroad car brakes. Granted the week ending August 11, 1857 | |
| IL | Bloomington (McLean County) assigned 7/7/04 jre | Pennock's Patent Seed Drills - Rock Island advertised in the Weekly Pantagraph in Bloomington in 1857 (McLean County). This machine will plant wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, peas, beans, rutabagas, and turnips; and can be regulated to drop any required quantity on an acre. The drills can be thrown in or out of gear separately, so as to plant a field of any shape without seeding any part twice. They are so arranged as to operate equally well on all kinds of landhilly and rough, as well as level and smooth. A man, with two horses, can put in from 10 to 12 acres with wheat in a day, and, with one horse, he can plant 20 acres with corn per day Pennock & Co., Kennett Square, Chester Co., Penn. | |||
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Hudson (McLean County) | Dement, Robert H. | car brake | ||
| Patent No. 319168 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Gridley (McLean County) | Burky, Joseph | Windmill |
| 1867 | IL | Normal (McLean County) | Warden, John | washing machine | |
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John Ramsay and John Thompson, Aledo, Illinois inventors, use a knotted wire rather than a chain to activate the seeding mechanism. (Additional patents refining and improving check row planting devices are later assigned to W.W. Hubbard, of Edinburg, IN (1864); G.D. Haworth (1870); and Aldon Barnes, of Bloomington, IL (1872 & 1877). http://www.kinzemfg.com/company/plantrev/timeline.html |
| Patent No. 319168 | IL | New Windsor (Mercer Co.) | Bachus, James Washington | Window-Screen | |
| Patent No. 320465 | IL | Perryton (Mercer County) | Daxon, Samuel Richard | Machine for measuring and elevating grain | |
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| Patent No. 322243 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Butler (Montgomery County) added 02/16/07 | Betty, Alonzo A. | Sulky-Plow |
| Patent No. 320750 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Hillsborough (Montgomery County) added 01/06/07 | Bell, Adam H. | Bundle-Dropper for harvesters |
| Patent No. 320750 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Litchfield (Montgomery County) added 02/09/07 | Champe, James Monroe | Churn |
| Patent No. 322249 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Litchfield (Montgomery County) added 02/16/07 | Brokaw, Isaac and Butler, Wesley | Straw-Stacker |
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Jacksonville (Morgan County) | Black, Dr. Greene Vardiman | Father of Modern Dentistry - the first to use Nitrous Oxide while extracting teeth. Invented a cord-driven dental engine, invented and patented a foot motor; perfected the use of amalgram for fillings. Practiced in Jacksonville, IL. | ||
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Jacksonville (Morgan County) | The Hall Braille typewriter (also called a Braillewriter or Brailler) was invented in 1892 by Frank Haven Hall, who was the Superintendent of the Illinois Institution for the Blind. The Hall Braille typewriter was manufactured by the Harrison & Seifried company in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hall introduced his invention on May 27, 1892, at Jacksonville, Illinois. [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml] | ||
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| Patent No. 321821 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Cushman (Moultrie County) added 02/09/07 | Kenney, Martin V. B. | Hay-Derrick |
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| Patent No. 322430 | July 21, 1885 | IL | Daysville (Ogle County) | Edmonds, Elijah L. | Railroad-Alarm |
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Grand DeTour (Ogle County) | Deere, John | John Deere was an Illinois blacksmith and manufacturer. In 1837, John Deere designed the first cast steel plow. The large plows made for cutting the tough prairie ground were called "grasshopper plows." The plow was made of wrought iron and had a steel share that could cut through sticky soil without clogging. By 1855, John Deere's factory was selling over 10,000 steel plows a year. In 1868, John Deere's business was incorporated as Deere & Company, which is still in existence today. [Read more at this website: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldeere.htm] .... Read more about John Deere on our Rock Island website at http://genealogytrails.com/ill/rockisland/pioneersfolder/johndeere.html | |
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| Patent No. 320535 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) | Brown, DeLoss S. and Sipf, Louis | Combined beer and spirit still |
| 1897 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) | Duryea, Charles E. and Duryea, J. Frank | - Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea, brothers, are known as the "Fathers of the American Automobile Industry". They are the inventors who are credited with being two of the originators of the automobile, and also founders of the short lived Duryea Company (1897-1900) which produced their horseless carriages. PEORIA, ILLINOIS USA - 1897 through 1900 Estimated production at this time - less than 20 cars View this excellent website for more information: http://www.duryea-peoria.com/ | |
| 1941 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) | Ag Lab |
The "Ag Lab" in Peoria has contributed many discoveries/inventions...their main claim to fame is discovering
a way to mass-produce penicillin in 1941. The "Ag Lab" in Peoria has contributed many discoveries/inventions...their
main claim to fame is discovering a way to mass-produce penicillin in 1941. One of NCAUR's most renowned discoveries is the commercial production process of penicillin. In 1928 British scientist Alexander Fleming discovered a mold, identified later as penicillium notatum, with great bacteria-killing abilities. Scientists soon realized that this wonder mold would be a promising antibiotic if it could be produced in quantity. In 1941 British scientists Howard Florey and Norman Heatley joined other researchers at the Peoria facility. Scientists of NCAUR quickly started investigating the mold penicillium. Andrew Moyer, an expert on molds, soon increased the yields of penicillin tenfold with non-alcoholic corn steep liquor. Still not satisfied, Moyer added milk sugar to penicillium and grew the mold in deep vats. Production doubled again. Although results were assuring, another breakthrough was needed. Not to be outdone, Mary Hunt discovered a superior strain of penicillium in a garbage can at a local fruit market. She found a beautiful moldy cantaloupe containing the superior strain of penicillium later named penicillium chrysogenum. By the end of its research, the NCAUR team had increased production of the mold by one hundred times. Called the cheapest antibiotic ever, penicillin was soon available to treat soldiers wounded in World War II battles. No longer did people die from common infections like bacterial pneumonia. The process of growing penicillin developed by Moyer is now being used
for growing many other antibiotics commercially. Moyer was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame joining
other distinguished inventors, including the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison. The NCAUR research team received
a plaque from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy for their hard work. NCAUR's miracle drug has saved
numerous lives and has since been discovering other pharmaceutical uses for agricultural products." |
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| Patent No. 318981 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) added 7/12/04 | Green, Andrew W. | Tuning-Hammer | |
| Patent No. 320443 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) | Orchard, Henry and Venell, A. V. | Hay-Stacker | |
| Trademark Reg. #61635 | circa 1st used 1883 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) added 7/12/04 | Amole Soap Co. | Amole Mexican |
| Trademark Reg. #21340 | circa June 21, 1892 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) added 7/12/04 | Oakford & Fahnestock Firm | Blue Ribbon Brand (canned veg & fruit) |
| Patent No. 320916 | June 30, 1885 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) added 01/05/07 | Dunlap, John S. | Stool Pedestal |
| Trademark Reg. #62025 | circa first used 9/15/1889 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County) added 7/12/04 | Keystone Fence Company | trademark - Keystone |
| Trademark Reg. #58221 | circa 1st used 1905 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County)added 7/12/04 | Keystone Fence Company | Square Deal wire fence |
| Patent No. 321666 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County)added 2/04/07 | Van Drelzen, John A. | Cooler for Water and Other Liquids |
| Patent No. 321666 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County)added 2/11/07 | Benner, Lorenzo D. | Check-Rower for Corn-Planters |
| Patent No. 322020 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Peoria (Peoria County)added 2/13/07 | Stock, Charles F. and Moore, N. Grier and Peoria Target Company | Trap for Throwing Targets |
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| Patent No. 321510 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Pickneyvile (Perry County) added 02/03/07 | Losse, Henry | Fire-Engine |
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| Patent No. 321651 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Eddyville (Pope County) added 02/04/07 | Shufflebarger, Simon and Shufflebarger, Willis | Journal-Box |
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| Patent No. 321606 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Mound City (Pulaski County) added 02/04/07 | Hough, William Webster and Robarts, Joseph P. | Minnow-Bucket |
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| Patent No. 319025 | IL | Olney (Richland County) added 7/12/04 | Richey, James I. | Automatic valve for drinking-troughs | |
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| Patent No. 320369 | IL | Carbon Cliff (Rock Island County) | Letsch, William F. | Potato-Digger | |
| Trademark Reg. #30580 | circa September 21, 1897 | IL | Moline (Rock Island County) added 7/12/04 | Deere & company Corporation | wagons |
| Patent No. 320369 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Rock Island (Rock Island County) added 2/16/07 | O'Neil, Michael S. | Draft-Equalizer |
| Sangamon County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| Patent No. 321960 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Mechanicsburg (Sangamon County) added 2/11/07 | Freeto, James H. | Telephone |
| IL | Springfield (Sangamon County) | Westlake, A. T. | dial figuring-machine | ||
| IL | Springfield (Sangamon County) | Wetzel, P. A. | washboard | ||
| 1853 | IL | Springfield (Sangamon County) | In 1853 - The first Illinois State Fair is held. | ||
| Patent No. 321726 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Springfield (Sangamon County) (added 2/09/04) | Ide, Albert L. | Steam-Engine Cross-Head Lubricator |
| Patent No. 321727 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Springfield (Sangamon County) (added 2/09/04) | Ide, Albert L. | Steam-Engine Cross-Head |
| Patent No. 322150 | July 14, 1885 |
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Springfield (Sangamon County) (added 2/13/07) | Barrows, J. Frank | Piano-Truck |
| Shelby County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| IL | Shelbyville (Shelby County) | Cochran, Mrs. Josephine Garis | The first dishwasher was patented in 1850 by Joel Houghton; his machine was a hand-turned wheel that splashed water on dishes - unfortunately, it wasn't very effective at washing dishes. The first working automatic dishwasher was invented by Mrs. Josephine Garis (W. A.) Cochran, of Shelbyville, Illinois, in 1889. Her dishwasher was a wooden tub with a wire basket in it. First, she measured her dishes and then built wire compartments - each specially designed to fit plates, cups, and saucers. The compartments fit in a wheel that lay flat inside a copper boiler. A motor turned the wheel, while hot soapy water squirted up from the boiler and rained down on the dishes, cleaning them. She unveiled her invention at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, and won its highest award. Cochrane's friends liked her dishwasher, and soon, Mrs. Cochrane was getting orders for the machine from restaurants and hotels around Illinois. She patented the design and went into production. (Her company is now the well-known corporation KitchenAid.) [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml] See also http://www.ecolitgy.com/josephine/josephineCochran.html and http://www.ecolitgy.com/it/josephine.html | ||
| St. Clair County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| Pat. No. 318942 |
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IL | Belleville (St. Clair County) added 7/12/04 | Baumgartner, Alexander | Stalk and Cane Cutter |
| Patent 8480 | 1851 | IL |
Belleville (St. Clair County) (added 7/28/04) |
Roberts, Cyrus and Cox, John |
Cox & Roberts Threshing Machine Company later became Harrison Machine Works. |
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1857 | IL |
Belleville (St. Clair County) (added 7/28/04) |
Gundlach, P. |
1857 Packing for Piston Rods and the Like Family continues to manufacture under the names Beno J. Gundlach Co. manufactures smaller items, and the T. J. Gundlach Machine Company
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| Patent No. 23089 | 1859 | IL |
Belleville (St. Clair County) (added 7/28/04) |
Kessler, Peter |
Alcohol Still |
| Patent No. 27235 |
1859 |
IL |
Belleville (St. Clair County) (added 7/28/04) |
Penn, Worden P. |
Horsepower |
| Patent No. 38824 | 1863 | IL |
Belleville (St. Clair County) (added 7/28/04) |
Heaton, Charles |
Armor Cladding For Ships |
| Patent No. 51690 | 1865 | IL |
Belleville (St. Clair County) (added 7/28/04) |
Bunsen, George C. | Fireman |
| Patent No. 167138 | 1875 | IL |
Belleville (St. Clair County) (added 7/28/04) |
Troll, Joseph |
Tullerians |
| Patent No. 572,985 | 1896 | IL | Lebanon (St. Clair County) | Hammonds, Julia Terry | Apparatus for holding Yarn Skeins - Patent #572,985 granted to Julia Terry Hammonds of Lebanon, Illinois on Dec.15, 1896. Listed in the Offical Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office. vol.77 p. 1617 |
| Stephenson County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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Freeport (Stephenson County) | Schofield, S. C. | corn sheller | |
| Patent No. 319059 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Freeport (Stephenson County) added 2/09/07 | Pattison, George H. | Windmill-Gearing |
| Patent No. 322314 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Freeport (Stephenson County) added 2/09/07 | Pattison, George H. | Windmill-Gearing - new and useful improvements |
| Vermilion County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| Trademark Reg. #23463, | circa April 10, 1893 | IL | Hoopeston (Vermilion County) added 7/12/04 | Illinois Canning Co. | Cream of the Prairie Sugar Corn |
| Trademark Reg. #23464 | circa April 10, 1893 | IL | Hoopeston (Vermilion County)added 7/12/04 | Illinois Canning Co. | Baby Bunting canned corn |
| Trademark Reg. #23481, | circa April 10, 1893 | IL | Hoopeston (Vermilion County)added 7/12/04 | Illinois Canning Co |
Pride of Illinois Sugar Corn |
| Tazewell County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| Patent No. 319059 | IL | Mackinaw (Tazewell County) | Brock, Levi M. | Wheel-Plow | |
| Wabash County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| IL | Mt. Carmel (wabash County) | Riggs, J. W. | gate closer. | ||
| Warren County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| 1880 | IL | Monmouth (Warren County) | dead duck decoy holder | ||
| Patent No. 320519 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Monmouth (Warren County) added 02/10/07 | Weir, William S. | Cultivator |
| Patent No. 320519 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Monmouth (Warren County) added 01/06/07 | Ney, William E. | Velocipede |
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| Patent No. 321349 | June 23, 1885 | IL | Okawville (Washington County) added 02/02/07 | Eppel, Gustav. A. | Washing-Machine |
| Whiteside County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| Patent No. 321449 | July 7, 1885 | IL | Rock Falls (Whiteside) added 02/02/07 | Packer, George W. | Check-Rower |
| Trademark Reg. #62973 | circa 1884 | IL | Sterling (Whiteside) added 7/12/04 | Black Silk | Black Silk Stove Polish |
| IL | Sterling (Whiteside) added 7/12/04 | Sterling - Credit goes to the Charter Gasoline Engine Company of Sterling, Illinois, for first successfully using gasoline as fuel. Charter's creation of a gasoline fueled engine in 1887 soon led to early gasoline traction engines before the term "tractor" was coined by others. Charter adapted its engine to a Rumley steam-traction-engine chassis, and in 1889 produced six of the machines to become one of the first working gasoline traction engines. [Source: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltractor.htm] (Contributor: KimmySue Torp) See also http://www.genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/businessmen.html (Contributed by Christine Walters, Whiteside County Host) | |||
| Will County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| Patent No. 318967 |
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Joliet (Will County) added 7/12/04 | Dice, Andrew F. | Barbed-Wire Spool | |
| Patent No. 322372 | July 14, 1885 |
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Joliet (Will County) added 2/16/07 | Hanscom, Joshua F. | Mackine for Making Staples |
| Winnebago County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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Harlem (Winnebago County) | Haase, Leo G. | Harlem, road-scraper | ||
| 1906 | IL | Rockford (Winnebago County) | a 1906 pencil sharpener manufactured in Rockford | ||
| Patent No. 320211 | IL | Rockford (Winnebago County) | Bergsten, Joseph | Towel-Rack | |
| Patent No. 321961 | July 14, 1885 | IL | Rockford (Winnebago County)added 2/11/07 | Ganick, Louis | Desk Attachment for Trunks |
| Woodford County, Illinois (return to top) | |||||
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| 1870 | IL | El Paso (Woodford County) | Strother, David A. | David A. Strother, resident of El Paso, Illinois, becomes the first African American to Vote | |
| Trademark Reg. #79903 | circa first used October 7, 1900 | IL | Eureka (Woodford County) added 7/12/04 | Dickinson & Co. |
Walnut canned vegetables |
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