August 1

1900 – “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum was copyrighted.

1941 – The first Jeep rolled off the assembly line, and Willys Truck Company was the first company to create a Jeep.

August 2

1904 – A patent for a “glass shaping machine” was granted to Michael Owen. The immense production of glass bottles and jars today owes its inception to this invention.

August 4

1970 – “Poppin Fresh” was trademarked by the Pillsbury Company.

August 7

1906 – The Flexible Flyer was trademarked.

1944 – The world’s first program-controlled calculator, popularly known as the Harvard Mark I, was inaugurated. Harvard researcher Howard Aiken built the machine, with support from IBM.

August 8

1911 – A patent was issued to Francis Holton for a vehicle tire.

August 9

1898 – Rudolph Diesel of France was granted a patent Number for an “internal combustion engine” now known as the Diesel engine.

August 10

1909 – The Ford Motor Company registered the Ford trademark.

August 12

1930 – Clarence Birdseye patented a method for packaging frozen foods.

August 13

1890 – A publisher registered the copyright for an edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.”

August 14

1889 – “The Washington Post March” by the first conductor of the U.S. Marine Corps Band, John Phillip Sousa, was copyrighted.

1984 – IBM released MS-DOS version 3.0. In 1980, IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft to discuss the state of home computers.

August 17

1993 – A patent was issued to Thomas Welsh for a platformed steerable skateboard.

August 18

1949 – Plant Patent issued to Henry Bosenberg of New Brunswick, NJ, for a climbing rose.

August 19

1919 – Hostess was trademarked by William B. Ward.

1888 – The first world beauty contest was held in Belgium; an 18-year-old West Indian woman won.

August 20

1930 – Philo Farnsworth patented a television.

August 21

1888 – William Burroughs patented the first practical adding-and-listing machine (calculator).

August 22

1952 – The Television Show “Adventures of Superman” was registered for copyright.

1932 – The BBS began experimental regular television broadcasts.

August 23

1977 – The name Cincinnati Bengals was trademarked.

August 24

1993 – A patent for a Bubble Dispensing Doll was issued to Vowles, Barad, Smith, and Stern.

August 25

1814 – The British burned Washington, D.C

August 26

1902 – Arthur McCurdy obtained a patent for a daylight developing tank for roll film.

August 27

1855 – Clara Barton became the first female federal employee to achieve equal status when the Patent Office hired her as a clerk

August 28

1951 – Oral-B (the famous line of dental products) was trademarked.

August 29

1893 – Whitcomb Judson received a patent for the zipper.

August 30

1968 – The song “Hey Jude” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney was copyrighted.

1994 – IBM announced it would not oppose Microsoft’s attempt to trademark the name “Windows”.

August 31

1897 -Edison patented a kinetographic camera.