Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4039106 | Automobile bicycle carrier An automobile bicycle carrier including a pair of upwardly opening channels for receiving the wheels of a bicycle and mounted in relatively parallel relation on a pair of cross-frame members and having a pair of bicycle support members mounted at their lo... | 08/02/1977 |
| 3994425 | Automobile bicycle carrier An automobile bicycle carrier of the type including a pair of upwardly opening channels for receiving the wheels of a bicycle and a support frame for mounting the channels in spaced parallel relation on a vehicle and for engaging the frames of the bicycle... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3973812 | Bicycle storage locker A vertically aligned triangularly cross sectioned bicycle storage cabinet having a pyramidical top and in which the bicycle is vertically suspended in the storage cabinet from a hook mounted at the apex of the pyramidical top by engagement with the front ... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3947010 | Service clamp A device for use in securing bicycles so that they may be elevated and oriented to any desired position convenient for the repair of said bicycles, the device including means for mounting on suitable support means and means to rigidly hold bicycle frames ... | 03/30/1976 |
| 3941406 | Bicycle carrying rack A multiple bicycle carrying rack comprising a bed or base member having raised grooved tracks of alternately staggered heights onto which bicycles are rolled and handle-bargripping clamps which are lowered from an overlying support to forceably engage the... | 03/02/1976 |
