{"id":7398,"date":"2026-09-27T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:28:16","slug":"matchbooks-were-patented-1892-by-joshua-pusey-of-lima-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7398","title":{"rendered":"Matchbooks Were Patented in 1892 by Joshua Pusey of Lima, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25447\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25447\" class=\"wp-image-25447 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Matchbook-Patent-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matchbook Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Matchbooks were patented in 1892 by Joshua Pusey of Lima, Pennsylvania<\/strong>. He received patent number 483,166. Children can view the patent at: <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US483166A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matchbook Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matchbooks were patented in 1892 by Joshua Pusey of Lima, Pennsylvania. He received patent number 483,166. Children can view the patent at: Matchbook Patent.<\/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":[4782,1779,1780,1777,1759,1778,60,5890],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4782","tag-joshua-pusey","tag-lima","tag-matchbooks","tag-patent","tag-patent-number-483166","tag-pennsylvania","tag-september-27","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\/7398","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=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29748,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/29748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}