Trade Marks As a rule, trade marks identify goods and services of an enterprise and are its intellectual property just like patents. Strong trade marks are assets. Above all, those signs can be protected as trade marks that are suitable for distinguishing goods an/or…
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A poor student becomes a pioneer of television The ‘Nipkow disc’ For more than half a century, television was the most important medium for mankind. Today, as its importance is declining in the face of the digital revolution, it is worth taking a look at its roots.…
László Bíró DE912309B The man with the pen László Bíró, 1978 He invented one of the most produced devices in history, but hardly profited from it: László Bíró is the father of the modern ballpoint pen, which still bears his name in many countries today. The creative…
Stapler McGill´s "Device for Inserting Metallic Staples in Paper, & c.", 1879 (US 212316A) The rise and demise of a formerly indispensable office helper Today we dedicate ourselves to a species threatened with extinction: the stapler. While this device could be found…
Penicillin Blunting wonder weapon Sir Alexander Fleming Looking back, September 28, 1928 might have been one of the most important dates in the history of medicine. On this day, the Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming observed that a mould can kill bacteria. The method…
When music became preservable DE45048 Emil Berliner´s Gramophone patent Birth of the sound box: In 1887, Emil Berliner was granted a patent for his „ Verfahren und Apparat für das Registriren und Wiederhervorbringen von Tönen “ ("Method and Apparatus for the…
Mobile phone Martin Cooper with his historic prototype and a modern phone in 2009, recieving the Prince of Asturias price Communication revolution with a slow start There are only a few inventions that have really changed people's lives forever. Apart from the…
The world´s first subway Illustration from "The Engineer", July 26, 1895 The tube under the Thames It was the world's first underground transport tunnel: the Tower Subway. A rail car shuttled back and forth under the river between the banks of the Thames - a much…
Laser One of Maiman´s first lasers is on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich Shine a light And there was light - like never before: When Theodore H. Maiman switched on a flash discharge lamp wrapped around a rod-shaped ruby in Malibu on 16 May 1960, a laser…