{"id":17139,"date":"2026-03-11T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:09:32","slug":"samuel-mulliken-received-four-patents-in-1791","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17139","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Mulliken Received Four Patents in 1791"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Samuel Mulliken received four patents in 1791.<\/strong> The Philadelphian was granted patents for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a machine to thresh grain and corn &#8211; Patent X7<\/li>\n<li>a device to break hemp &#8211; Patent X8<\/li>\n<li>a strategy to cut and polish marble &#8211; Patent X9<\/li>\n<li>a device to raise a nap on cloth &#8211; Patent X10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These patents were the last of the first ten patents issued in the United States. Unfortunately, a fire in the temporary building housing early patents destroyed all the early patents, so Mulliken&#8217;s documentation has been lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Mulliken received four patents in 1791. The Philadelphian was granted patents for: a machine to thresh grain and corn &#8211; Patent X7 a device to break hemp &#8211; Patent X8 a strategy to cut and polish marble &#8211; Patent X9 a device to raise a nap on cloth &#8211; Patent X10 These patents were <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17139' 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":[4514,3723,5380,3722],"class_list":["post-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4514","tag-four-patents","tag-march-11","tag-samuel-mulliken","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\/17139","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=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26357,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions\/26357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}