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Akoustolith

Akoustolith was a patented product of a collaboration between Rafael Guastavino and Harvard professor Wallace Sabine over a period of years starting in 1911.

Alkali manufacture

The ammonia-soda process was first patented in 1838 by H. G. Dyar and J. Hemming, who carried it out on an experimental scale in Whitechapel.

Aluminium–air battery

Aluminium-chlorine battery was patented by United States Air Force in the 1970s and designed mostly for military applications.

Ambazone

Ambazon was patented in 1957 by Bayer under the trade name Iversal, and briefly used in Germany.

Augustine Warner, Jr.

He was the only son of Augustine Warner, who immigrated from England in 1628 and patented the plantation called "Austin's Desire" in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1642, building Warner Hall on the property.

BioNeutra

BioNeutra is a Canada-based agri-biotechnology manufacturer of patented technology to produce the food ingredients and natural fibre sweeteners, Isomaltooligosaccharide (IMO) and Fructooligosaccharide (FOS).

Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies'

Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies' is an American cultivar raised by Mark Brand and William Smith of Storrs, Connecticut, and patented in 2012.

CAD/CAM Dentistry

Renishaw plc CAD/CAM systems, from a company that started in industrial metrology with patented probes.

Canned fish

Shortly after, the British inventor and merchant Peter Durand patented his own method, this time in a tin can, creating the modern-day process of canning foods.

David H. Burrell

There he invented a seamless cheese bandage, silos for the preservation of ensilage, the Burrell-Simplex Link Blade "Simplex" Separator, milk pasteurization systems, churns, butter workers, milk testers and coolers, gang presses, and a universally accepted, patented, BLK milking machine.

Dugald Clerk

In 1877 the Otto cycle was patented, immediately recognized to have a significant practical value.

Duma Optronics

Secondly, the use of Knife Edge type analyzers, a unique state-of-the-art technology (patented), enabling a knife edge profiling the beam at various intersection angles, followed by a Tomographic reconstruction algorithm, generating the spatial intensity distribution map at the intersection plane.

Duramold

The Fairchild Aircraft Corporation patented the process, designing and constructing the AT-21, (NX/NC19131) as the first aircraft made using the Duramold process.

Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield

He gave his name to the Inglefield clip, a device he patented in 1890 for quickly attaching signal flags.

Engine efficiency

Others before Corliss had at least part of this idea, including Zachariah Allen, who patented variable cut off, but lack of demand, increased cost and complexity and poorly developed machining technology delayed introduction until Corliss.

ESS speakers

They were one of the only manufacturers of the patented Air Motion Transformer (AMT) speakers designed by Oskar Heil.

Eugene O'Conor

O'Conor had 'several useful inventions patented' and lectured on his opinion that Francis Bacon (Baconian theory) was the author of Shakespeare's plays.

Extrusion

In 1797, Joseph Bramah patented the first extrusion process for making lead pipe.

Ferranti Computer Systems

It owes its name to its original founder Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, an electrical engineer, born in Liverpool in 1864, who, at the age of 13, invented the arc light for street lighting and, when 16, built and patented an electrical generator (the Ferranti dynamo).

Flowboarding

Known technically as the WaveLoch FlowRider and the FlowBarrel, these sheet waves are the patented constructions of Wave Loch Inc, which is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

GE Lighting

In 1911 GE was found to have acquired three quarters of the National Electric Light Association, an association of lighting product companies through which GE had licensed its patented products; this trading arrangement was the subject of an antitrust investigation, and as a result the association was dissolved.

Hot air engine

It is likely that Robert Stirling's air engine of 1818, which incorporated his innovative Economiser (patented in 1816) was the first air engine put to practical work.

Human power

The modern clockwork radio was designed and patented in 1991 by British inventor Trevor Baylis as a response to the AIDS crisis.

Hypex Electronics

The Class D audio modules employ a control method called UcD, invented by Bruno Putzeys and patented by Philips Electronics.

Kylchap

The Kylchap steam locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by French steam engineer André Chapelon, using a second-stage nozzle designed by the Finnish engineer Kyösti Kylälä and known as the Kylälä spreader; thus the name KylChap for this design.

Lucien Stephen Crandall

The Crandall Typewriter was patented in 1881 and manufactured by the Crandall Machine Company of Groton, New York.

Mattingly Sports

Mattingly Sports is a baseball and softball equipment company launched by Don Mattingly in 2005, based primarily around the patented V-Grip baseball and softball bats.

Miller cycle

The Miller cycle was patented by Ralph Miller, an American engineer, US patent 2817322 dated Dec 24, 1957.

Nansen bottle

The Niskin bottle is a development of the Nansen bottle patented by Shale Niskin in March 1966.

Nigusil

Nigusil is a patented metal alloy created by Moto Guzzi for motorcycle cylinder liners.

Nikolaus Otto

According to recent historical studies, the Italian inventors Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci patented a first working efficient version of an internal combustion engine in 1854 in London (pt. Num. 1072).

Peter Strauss Ranch

In the early 20th century, the automobile manufacturer Harry Miller, famous for his patented master carburetor featured at the Indianapolis 500, purchased the ranch as a weekend retreat from his factory and residence in Los Angeles.

Picric acid

In 1885, based on research of Hermann Sprengel, French chemist Eugène Turpin patented the use of pressed and cast picric acid in blasting charges and artillery shells.

Raoul Grimoin-Sanson

In 1897, he patented the Cinéorama, a panoramic film projection system involving ten synchronized projectors.

Razor

The first electric razor was patented in 1928 by the American manufacturer Col. Jacob Schick.

Reaper

Obed Hussey in Ohio patented a reaper in 1833, the Hussey Reaper.

Rollei 35

Waaske's little camera was presented at Photokina in 1966 as Rollei 35, with a better lens – the Zeiss Tessar 3.5/40mm lens, a state-of-the-art Gossen CdS-exposure meter and a precision-made diaphragm shutter made by Compur, using Waaske's patented shutter design.

Sanitary napkin

In order to meet the need for achieving an inexpensive solution to tackle unsanitary and unhygienic practices in countries like India, Arunachalam Muruganantham from rural Coimbatore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India developed and patented a machine which could manufacture low-cost sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost.

Scuba set

After having travelled to England and discovered William James' invention, the French physician Manuel Théodore Guillaumet, from Argentan (Normandy), patented in 1838 the oldest known regulator mechanism.

Sony Alpha 550

The Sony Alpha a550 incorporates Sony's patented SteadyShot INSIDE stabilisation system which works with any attached lens.

Stanley Macomber

Stanley Macomber (1887–1967) designed and patented the open web joist floor system, and founded the Massillon Steel Joist Company of Massillon, Ohio, and the Macomber Steel Company of Canton, Ohio.

Steyr Mannlicher M1901

According to the Steyr factory records this arm, patented in 1898, was originally introduced as the "Model 1900" and used a special 8 mm cartridge.

Stirling cycle

This includes the original Stirling engine that was invented, developed and patented in 1816 by Reverend Dr. Robert Stirling with help from his brother, an engineer.

Term of patent in the United States

The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Hatch-Waxman Act) of 1984 provides patent holders on approved patented products with an extended term of protection under the patent to compensate for the delay in obtaining Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

Tier-3

Tier-3 invented and patented a technique called Behavioural Anomaly Detection (BAD) which allows a normal baseline of system and network activity to be learnt, against which anomalous patterns of activity, which could indicate a security attack or case of misuse, to be detected.

Uniflow steam engine

The uniflow engine was first used in Britain in 1827 by Jacob Perkins and was patented in 1885 by Leonard Jennett Todd.

VDX

Virtual Desktop Extender, a patented technology by RES Software that enables reverse seamless windows in remote desktop environments.

Vendor lock-in

The K-Cup single-use coffee pod system is patented and licensed by Keurig, which is a subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

Wendel Bollman

Only one of his patented "Bollman truss" bridges survives, the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge in Savage, Maryland.

Xtraview Encryption System

Xtraview Video Encryption System refers to the now-defunct patented "encryption" system used on Xtraview and a number of other Top Up TV services, including Setanta Sports, Television X and Red Hot TV.


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