August Calendar -- August Calendar of Famous Inventions and August Birthdays
August Calendar
Find out what famous event happened on the August Calendar for history concerning patents, trademarks, or copyrights. What famous inventor has the same August birthday as you.
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August 11900 "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum was copyright registered.
1941 The first jeep rolled off the assembly line. Willy’s 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, jars, etc. owes its inception to this invention.
August 3
1897 The Street Car Controller was patented by Walter Knight and William Potter.
August 4
1970 POPPIN FRESH was trademark registered by the Pillsbury Company.
August 5
1997 Patent #5,652,975 for an automatic talking potty apparatus was issued to Glory Hoskin.
August 6
1935 William Coolidge obtained a patent for the cathode ray tube, a critical ingredient of TV and other electronic applications.
August 7
1906 The Flexible Flyer was trademark registered.
1944 The world's first program-controlled calculator, popularly called the Harvard Mark I was inaugurated. The machine was built by Harvard researcher Howard Aiken, supported by IBM.
August 8
1911 Patent #1,000,000 was issued to Francis Holton for a vehicle tire.
August 9
1898 Rudolf Diesel of France was granted patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
August 10
1909 The FORD trademark registered by the Ford Motor Corporation.
August 11
1942 Hedy Markey received a patent for a secret communication system.
1950 Steve Wozniak was born, the co-founder of Apple Computers.
August 12
1930 Clarence Birdseye patented a method for packaging frozen foods.
August 13
1890 A publisher copyright registered an edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."
1655 Johann Christoph Denner the inventor of the clarinet was born.
August 14
1889 "The Washington Post March" by John Phillip Sousa was copyright registered.
1984 IBM released MS-DOS version 3.0. IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft to discuss the state of home computers in 1980.
August 15
1989 President George Bush issued a proclamation commemorating the bicentennial anniversary of the 1st patent and copyright laws.
August 16
1949 Patent #2,478,967 was granted to Leonard Greene of Mineola, NY for an "airplane stall warning device."
August 17
1993 Patent #5,236,208 was issued to Thomas Welsh for a platform steerable skateboard.
August 18
1949 Plant Patent #1 was issued to Henry Bosenberg of New Brunswick, NJ, for a climbing rose.
August 19
1919 HOSTESS was trademark registered 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 The first practical adding & listing machine ( calculator) was patented by William Burroughs.
August 22
1952 The Television Show, Adventures of Superman was copyright registered.
1932 The BBS began experimental regular television broadcasts.
August 23
1977 The name Cincinnati Bengals was trademark registered.
1904 The automobile tire chain was patented.
August 24
1993 Patent # 5,238,437 for a Bubble Dispensing Doll was issued to Vowles, Barad, Smith and Stern.
August 25
1814 The British burnt Washington, D.C., however, the Patent Office was saved by the British Superintendent of Patents, Dr. William Thornton.
August 26
1902 Arthur McCurdy obtained a patent for a daylight developing tank for roll film.
August 27
1855 Clara Barton becomes the first female federal employee to achieve equal status when she was hired by the Patent Office as a clerk
August 28
1951 Oral B (the famous line of dental products) was trademark registered.
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 copyright registered.
1994 IBM announced it would not oppose Microsoft's attempt to trademark the name " Windows."
August 31
1897 Thomas Edison patented a kinetographic camera.
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August Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same August birthday as you. The eigth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.August Birthdays 1st to 10th
August Birthdays 11th to 20th
August Birthdays 21st to 31st
August 1
1849 George Mercer Dawson was a famous Canadian scientist
1889 John F Mahoney who developed a pencillin treatment for syphillis
1936 Yves Saint Laurent is considered the greatest French fashion designer of the 20th century
August 2
1834 Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was the French sculptor who patented the Statue of Liberty
1835 Elisha Grey was an inventor who invented an early telephone
1926 Betsy Bloomingdale founded the famous department store
August 3
1959 Koichi Tanaka was a famous Japanese scientist
August 4
1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte invented the modern pencil
1859 Knut Hamsun was an Norwegian writer who won the Nobel Prize in 1920
August 5
1540 Joseph Justice Scaliger invented Julian dating
1802 Niels H Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who invented Abel's Comparisons
1904 Kenneth Thimann was a famous botanist
1906 Wassely Leontief was a Russian-American economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1973
August 6
1859 J Arthur S Berson was a famous Austrian meteorologist who made famous hot air balloon flights over the Amazon
1867 James Loeb was a famous American businessman
1908 Sol Adler famous economist who invented Sinophile
August 7
1779 Carl Ritter was the cofounder of the modern science of geography
1783 John Heathcoat invented lace-making machinery
1870 Gustav Krupp was a famous German businessman
1880 Ernst Laqueur was a famous who discovered sexual hormones
1886 Louis Hazeltine was the inventor of the neutrodyne circuit that made radio possible
1903 Louis Leakey was a famous anthropologist who won the 1964 Richard Hooper Medal
August 8
1861 William Bateson was a famous English biologist who invented the term "genetics"
1901 Ernest Lawrence was a famous scientist and inventor who invented the Cyclotron and won the Nobel Prize in 1939
1902 Paul Dirac was a famous English physicist who invented quantum mechanics and won the Nobel Prize in 1933
1922 Rudi Gernreich was a famous designer who invented the first women's topless swimsuit and the miniskirt
1931 Roger Penrose was a famous English physicist
August 9
1819 William Thomas Green Morton was a dentist that invented the used of ether in dentistry
1896 Jean Piaget was a famous Swiss developmental psychologist and zoologist
1897 Ralph Wyckoff was a pioneer of x-ray crystallography
1911 William A Fowler was a famous astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983
1927 Marvin Minsky was a famous computer scientist at MIT who made inventions related to artifical intelligence
August 10
1861 Almroth Wright was a famous English bacteriologist
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August Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same August birthday as you. The eigth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.August Birthdays 1st to 10th
August Birthdays 11th to 20th
August Birthdays 21st to 31st
August 11
1858 Christian Eijkman was a famous bacteriologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1929
1926 Bernard Ashley was a famous English fashion designer who founded Laura Ashley
1950 Steve Wozniak was a computer inventor and the co-founder of Apple Computers
August 12
1930 George Soros was a famous Hungarian businessman
August 13
1655 Johann Christoph Denner was the inventor of the clarinet
1814 Anders Jonas Engstrom was a Swedish physicist who co-invented the spectroscope
1819 George Gabriel Stokes was a famous physicist and mathematician who co-invented the spectroscope
1888 John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor of a television system
1902 Felix Wankel was a German inventor who invented the Wankel rotary-piston engine
1912 Salvador Luria was an Italian-American biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
1918 Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1958 and 1980
August 14
1777 Hans Christian Oersted was a famoud Dutch physicist and chemist who wrote "View of Chemical Law" and was an early experimentor in the field of electromagnetism
1861 Bion Joseph Arnold was a famous electrical engineer and inventor
1883 Ernest Just was a famous biologist who pioneered cell division
1903 John Ringling North was a famous circus director who co-founded the Ringling Bros
August 15
1794 Elias Fries was a famous Swedish botanist who invented the system mycologicum
1892 Louis-Victor prince of Broglie was a French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1929
1896 Leon Theremin was an electronic musical instrument inventor who invented the Theremin which was named after the inventor
August 16
1845 Gabriel Lippmann was a famous French physicist who invented the first color photographic plate and was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for this process.
1848 Francis Darwin was a famous English scientist and the son of Charles Darwin who carried on his work
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg was a football pioneer and the inventor of the tackling dummy
1892 Harold Foster was a famous cartoonist who invented "Prince Valiant"
1897 Robert Ringling was a circus master who co-founded the Ringling Bros
1904 Wendell Stanley was a famous biochemist and the first to crystallize a virus. He won the Nobel Prize in 1946
August 17
1870 Frederick Russell invented the first successful typhoid fever vaccine
1906 Hazel Bishop was a famous chemist and cosmetics manufacturer who invented the first indelible or smear-proof lipstick
August 18
1834 Marshall Field founded the Marshall Field Department Store
1883 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was a famous French fashion designer who invented the house of Chanel
1904 Max Factor, Jr. was the CEO of Max Factor Cosmetics and son of the founder and inventor Max Factor
1927 Marvin Harris was a famous American scientist
August 19
1785 Seth Thomas invented the mass production of clocks
1906 Philo T Farnsworth was the inventor of electronic TV
1919 Malcolm Forbes was a famous publisher who founded Forbes Magazine
August 20
1908 Kingsley Davis was a sociologist who invented the term population explosion
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August Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same August birthday as you. The eigth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
August Birthdays 1st to 10th
August Birthdays 11th to 20th
August Birthdays 21st to 31st
August 21
1660 Hubert Gautier was an engineer who wrote the first book on bridge building
1907 Roy Marshall was a well-known scientist who narrated the Nature of Things
August 22
1860 Paul Nipkow was a German TV pioneer and inventor
1920 Denton Cooley was a heart surgeon who performed the first artifical heart transplant
August 23
1926 Clifford Geertz was a famous cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, who described culture as a system of symbols and actions which convey meaning
1928 Vera Rubin was a famous American scientist who discovered dark matter
1933 Manfred Donike was a famous chemist who invented drug testing
August 24
1880 Joshua Cowen was an inventor who helped invent the flashlight and invented the electric toy train
1898 Albert Claude was a Belgian cytologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1974 for for discoveries of cell structure and function
1918 Ray McIntire was the chemical engineer who invented styrofoam
August 25
1841 Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon and thyroid specialist who won the Nobel Prize in 1909
1916 Frederick Robbin was an American bacteriologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1954
August 26
1740 Joseph Montgolfier was a French aeronaut who invented successful hot air ballooning
1743 Antoine Lavoisier was a famous French scientist who invented the term oxygen
1850 Charles Richet was a French physiologist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1913
1906 Albert Sabin, Russian-American microbiologist who invented the oral polio vaccine
1951 Edward Witten was a famous American mathematician and theoretical physicist who won the 2008 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics. He helped develop string theory, and developed mathematical processes to solve the multi-dimensional equations of string theory.
August 27
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and inventor
1874 Karl Bosch was a German chemist and the founder of BASF who won the Nobel Prize in 1931
1877 Charles Stewart Rolls was a British auto manufacturer and founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd who invented the Rolls-Royce.
1890 Man Ray was an American artist and photographer who invented the dada movement
August 28
865 Rhazes was a famous ground-blazing Persian physician
1878 George Hoyt Whipple was an American astrophysicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1934
1917 Jack Kirby was a famous cartoonist who co-invented the X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Thor[/lik]
August 29
1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus was an German mathematician, who invented trigonometry
1876 Charles Kettering was an American inventor who invented the auto self-starter or ignition
1904 Werner Forssman was a German urologist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1956
1959 Stephen Wolfram was an English computer scientist, who invented the computational software Mathematica.
August 30
1852 Jacobus Henricus was a Dutch physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1901
1884 Theodor Svedberg was a Swedish chemist who worked with colloids and won the Nobel Prize in 1926
1912 Edward Purcell was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1952
1927 Geoffrey Beene was an American dress designer who won 8 Coty Awards
August 31
1663 Guillaume Amontons was a famous French physicist
1821 Hermann von Helmholtz was a famous German physicist
1870 Maria Montessori was a famous Italian educator, who invented the term spontaneous response
1889 A Provost Idell invented modern volleyball
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