{"id":14830,"date":"2026-07-31T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14830"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:41:51","slug":"first-us-patent-was-approved-in-1790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14830","title":{"rendered":"First US Patent Was Approved in 1790"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14832\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14832\" class=\"wp-image-14832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/First-US-Patent-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"First US Patent\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First US Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>First United States patent was approved in 1790.<\/strong> Inventor Samuel Hopkins received patent X000001 for his potash process. The patent office had not even been created yet, so President George Washington, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph signed the document. Children can visit a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>GREAT<\/strong><\/span> website, filled with activities, about the patent process at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/kids\/build.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United States patent was approved in 1790. Inventor Samuel Hopkins received patent X000001 for his potash process. The patent office had not even been created yet, so President George Washington, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph signed the document. Children can visit a GREAT website, filled with activities, about the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14830' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4548,940,5746,942,943,941],"class_list":["post-14830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4548","tag-first-united-states-patent","tag-july-31","tag-patent-x000001","tag-potash-process","tag-samuel-hopkins","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14830"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29594,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14830\/revisions\/29594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}