How many U.S. presidents have registered patents?
Just one U.S. president has registered patents Abraham Lincoln.
He secured patent 6469 for a plan to buoy steamboats over shoals.
Twenty people on President Richard Nixon’s enemies list were named in the 1971 memo released to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973. There were 200 additional enemies on a separate list. The memo proposed the use of “federal machinery,” including IRS audits and litigation, to “screw our political enemies.” The top 20 enemies included Ed…
Over the course of publication (1732-57), Benjamin Franklin’s Almanack sold on average 10,000 copies per year.
Duke University was founded in 1838 as the Union Institute and Randolph College, and renamed Trinity College in 1851. The Durham, North Carolina, institution became Duke University in 1924 in commemoration of a $40 million donation from tobacco mogul James B. Duke.
There are 13 stars, arrows, olive leaves, and olives in the Great Seal of the United States, symbolizing the original 13 colonies. The design of the seal was approved by Congress in 1782. As seen on the back of the dollar bill, the seal consists of an eagle holding olives and arrows in its talons,…
The New Orleans Opera, which made eight tours to New York and other cities between 1827 and 1845, was America’s first resident opera company. Specializing in French opera, the company’s reputation made New Orleans as synonymous with opera in the 19th century as it was with jazz in the 20th.
Visa began in 1965 as the Bank of America’s BankAmericard, backed by a group of banks able to exchange funds nationally. It received its current name, Visa, in 1977, to promote its international image and acknowledge the cooperation of banks in other countries. MasterCard began in 1966 as the Interbank card issued by another consortium…