{"id":203,"date":"2026-11-04T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:01:29","slug":"three-interesting-patents-were-awarded-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Three Interesting Patents Were Awarded Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/artificial-leg-e1762217909523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/>Artificial leg<\/strong> was patented by Benjamin Franklin Palmer in 1846. His invention received patent number 4,834. Children can read about Palmer and his invention at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/reform\/jb_reform_artificial_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cash register <\/strong>was patented in 1879 by James Ritty and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. They invented the cash register, called \u201cRitty\u2019s Incorruptible Cashier,&#8221; because they felt employees were stealing money from them. Children can see the patent at the Google patent site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/about?id=Zb1cAAAAEBAJ&amp;dq=221360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cash Register Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refrigeration apparatus<\/strong> was patented by Thomas Elkins in 1879. He received patent number 221,222. Children can see his patent at the Google patent site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US221222?dq=221222&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=FxZeUIeWDOq10AHth4DQBw&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refrigeration Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial leg was patented by Benjamin Franklin Palmer in 1846. His invention received patent number 4,834. Children can read about Palmer and his invention at: Palmer. Cash register was patented in 1879 by James Ritty and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. They invented the cash register, called \u201cRitty\u2019s Incorruptible Cashier,&#8221; because they felt employees were <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=203' 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":[5993,5994,5992,5995],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-artificial-leg-patent","tag-cash-register-patent","tag-november-4","tag-refrigeration-apparatus-patent","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\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30353,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/30353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}