1. INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED HISTORY Telegraph Cotton gin Telephone

2. PATENT http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/op a/kids/index.html The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the government agency responsible for examining patent applications and issuing patents. A patent is a type of property right. It gives the patent holder the right, for a limited time (20 years), to exclude others from making, using, offering to sell, selling, or importing into the United States the subject matter you were a granted a patent. The USPTO determines whether a patent should be granted. 3. INVENTORS Directions- Read about one inventor and review the movie clip of that person. Go to the blog and comment on: Why that invention was important. How did the invention help the industrial world. 4. First Patent The First U. S. Patent issued and signed by George Washington in 1790. 5. ELI WHITNEY March 14, 1794 6. ELI WHITNEY Cotton Gin Patent 7. ELI WHITNEY 8. THOMAS EDISON He improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1879, using lower current electricity, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe, he was able to produce a reliable, long-lasting source of light. 9. THOMAS EDISON 10. GEORGE EASTMAN 11. GEORGE EASTMAN 12. SAMUEL MORSE Morse developed 'lightning wires' and 'Morse code,' an electronic alphabet that could carry messages. The patent was applied for in 1840. A line was constructed between Baltimore and Washington and the first message, sent on May 24,1844, was 'What hath God wrought!' In 1861 the two coasts of the United States were linked by telegraph. 13. SAMUEL MORSE 14. Abraham Lincoln Lincoln was a congressman from Illinois in 1849 when he was issued Patent No. 6,469 for a "manner of buoying vessels. Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to receive a patent. 15. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16. HENRY FORD 1908 Model T sold for $825 Henry Ford and his first car the Quadricycle was built in 1896 17. HENRY FORD 18. WRIGHT BROTHERS 12/17/03 19. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL March 10, 1876 20. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 21. GUGLIELMO MARCONI In 1895 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the equipment and transmitted electrical signals through the air from one end of his house to the other, and then from the house to the garden. These experiments were, in effect, the dawn of practical wireless telegraphy or radio. 22. MARCONI 23. ANDREW CARNEGIE Andrew Carnegie is the classic American success story. He rose from a $1.20 a week job for a thread company to the head of a company that sold for the equivalent of $12.5 billion! Believing that "a rich man who dies rich dies in disgrace," he worked as hard at giving his wealth away as he did to earn it. 24. ANDREW CARNEGIE 25. JOHN D. ROCKFELLER In 1870, Rockefeller teamed with his brother William, Henry M. Flagler, and Samuel Andrews (inventor of an inexpensive means of refining crude oil) to establish the Standard Oil Company. He also gave money to help refurbish Colonial Willamsburg. He accumulated assets in the range of $1 billion. 26. JOHN D ROCKFELLER