{"id":3996,"date":"2026-04-08T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:22:03","slug":"inventions-and-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"Inventions and Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fire escape was patented in England in 1766<\/strong>. The system included a wicker basket on a series of pulleys and chains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fire escape ladder was invented in 1879 by\u00a0J. R. Winters.<\/strong>\u00a0He received patent number 214,224. Children could view his patent at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US214224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US214224<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margarine was patented by Alfred Paraf in 1873<\/strong>. The New York resident received patent number 137,564. Children could read about his process at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US137564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US137564<\/a>. They\u00a0could do some research to see which is healthier, margarine or butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire escape was patented in England in 1766. The system included a wicker basket on a series of pulleys and chains. Fire escape ladder was invented in 1879 by\u00a0J. R. Winters.\u00a0He received patent number 214,224. Children could view his patent at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US214224. Margarine was patented by Alfred Paraf in 1873. The New York resident received patent <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3996' 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":[2451,5462,2448,2450,2452,2449],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-alfred-paraf","tag-april-8","tag-fire-escape","tag-margarine","tag-patent-number-137564","tag-wicker-basket-on-a-series-of-pulleys-and-chains","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\/3996","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=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22202,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/22202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}