Famous Inventions and Birthdays in February

February is not only the month of Valentines Day, but its also when a great number of inventions were created, patented, trademarked, and copyrighted. Thats not to mention the many great scientists, scholars, and famous figures who were born in the month. Whether youre looking for someone who shares your February birthday or just want to know what historic event happened on a random February day, check out the following list of happenings during this month throughout history. Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights From the digital voicemail system to Kooky Doodles, February has celebrated the birth of many inventions and pieces of writing and art. February 1 1788 — The first U.S. patent for an improvement to steamships was issued to Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet.1983 — Matthews, Tansil, and Fannin obtained a patent for a digital voicemail system. February 2 1869 — James Oliver invented the removable tempered steel plow blade.1965 — Alfonso Alvarez received a patent for dual-vent windows. February 3 1690 — The first paper money in America was issued in the colony of Massachusetts.1952 — The first episode of the TV program Dragnet was copyrighted. February 4 1824 —  J. W. Goodrich introduced the world to the first rubber galoshes.1941 — Roy Plunkett received a patent in for tetrafluoroethylene polymers, better known as TEFLON. February 5 1861 — Samuel Goodale patented the first moving picture peep show machine. February 6 1917 — Sunmaid raisins were trademark registered.1947 — Frank Capras Its a Wonderful Life was copyrighted. February 7 1995 — Larry Gunter and Tracie Williams received a patent for a personalized interactive storybook February 8 1916 —  Charles Kettering received a patent for a self-starting automobile engine. February 9 1811 —  Robert Fulton was granted a patent for the practical steamboat. February 10 1976 — Sidney Jacoby was granted a patent for a combination smoke and heat detector alarm. February 11 1973 — The National Inventors Hall of Fame was founded. February 12 1974 — Stephen Kovacs received a patent for a magnetic heart pump. February 13 1979 — Charles Chidsey received a patent for a solution to male baldness. February 14 1854 — Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson patented a firearm. February 15 1972 —  William Kolff obtained a patent for the soft shell, mushroom-shaped artificial heart. February 16 1932 — James Markham received the first fruit tree patent. It was for a peach tree. February 17 1827 — Chester Stone patented a washing machine. February 18 1879 — Auguste Bartholdi was granted a design patent for the Statue of Liberty. February 19 1878 — Thomas Edison received a patent for the phonograph. February 20 1846 — John Drummond was granted a patent for molds for the manufacturing of candles.1872 — Luther Crowell patented a machine that manufactured paper bags. February 21 1865 —  John Deere received a patent for plows. February 22 1916 — Ernst Alexanderson was issued a patent for a selective radio tuning system. February 23 1943 — The song As Time Goes By from the movie Casablanca was copyrighted. February 24 1857 — The first perforated United States postage stamps were delivered to the government.1925 —  His Masters Voice  was trademark registered. February 25 1902 — John Holland was granted a patent for a submarine. February 26 1870 — The first New York City subway line opened. This short-lived line was pneumatically powered.1963 — Hobie surfboards trademark registered. February 27 1900 — Felix Hoffman patented acetylsalicylic acid, better known as  aspirin. February 28 1984 — Donald Mauldin received a patent for a knee brace. February 29 1972 — Kooky Doodles were trademark registered. February Birthdays Many famous inventors and scientists were born in February. Against all odds, a few were even born on Leap Day, which falls on the 29th of February, every four years. February 1 1905 — Emilio Segre, an  Italian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for the  atomic bomb  used on Nagasaki1928 — Sam Edwards, a Welsh physicist who studied condensed matter physics February 2 1817 — John Glover, an English chemist who discovered sulfuric acid1859 — Havelock Ellis, an American physician and sexologist who wrote The Psychology of Sex1905 — Jean-Pierre Guerlain, a pioneer in the invention of cosmetics February 3 1821 — Elizabeth Blackwell of Bristol England, the first accredited female physician February 4 1841 — Clement Ader, a French inventor who was the first to fly a heavier-than-air craft1875 — Ludwig Prandtl, a German physicist who is considered the father of aerodynamics1903 — Alexander Oppenheim, a mathematician who wrote the  Oppenheim conjecture February 5 1840 — John Boyd Dunlop, a Scottish inventor who invented pneumatic rubber tires1840 —  Hiram Maxim,  inventor of the automatic single-barrel rifle1914 — Alan Hodgkin, a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1963 for his work on the central nervous system1915 — Robert Hofstadter, an  American atomic physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1961 for his work on electron scattering in atomic nuclei1943 — Nolan Bushnell, the founder of  Atari  and the creator of  Pong February 6 1879 — Carl Ramsauer, a German research physicist who discovered the Ramsauer-Townsend effect1890 — Anton Hermann Fokker, an  aviation  pioneer1907 — Sam Green, a noted industrialist and inventor1913 — Mary Leakey, a  British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first Proconsul skull, which belongs to a species of extinct ape that may be an ancestor of humans February 7 1870 — Alfred Adler, an  Austrian psychiatrist who first wrote about the inferiority complex1905 — Ulf Svante von Euler, a Swedish physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1970 February 8 1828 — Jules Verne, a French writer who wrote From the Earth to the Moon and is considered the father of  science fiction1922 — Joeri Averbach, a noted Russian chess grandmaster February 9 1871 — Howard T. Ricketts, an American pathologist who studied typhus fever1910 — Jacques Monod, a  French biochemist who  won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for his work on enzyme and virus synthesis1923 — Norman E. Shumway, a pioneer in cardiac transplant surgery1943 — Joseph E. Stiglitz, a noted American economist1950 — Andrew N. Meltzoff, a noted developmental psychologist February 10 1880 — Jesse G. Vincent, an engineer who designed the first V-12 engine1896 — Alister Hardy, a  British scientist who was an expert on the marine ecosystems of everything from zooplankton to whales1897 — John Franklin Ender, a microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his research on polio1920 — Alex Comfort, an English physician who wrote The Joy of Sex1941 — Dave Parnas, a Canadian computer scientist who pioneered information hiding in modular programming February 11 1846 —  William Fox Talbot, a pioneer photographer and inventor1898 — Leo Szilard, a  Hungarian physicist who worked on the A-Bomb and later became a peace activist1925 — Virginia Johnson, an American psychologist and part of the noted medical team of Masters and Johnson1934 — Mary Quant, an English fashion designer who invented the mod look February 12 1809 — Charles Darwin, an  English scientist who proposed the  theory of evolution  and wrote the Origin of Species1813 — James Dwight Dana, an American scientist who pioneered the study of volcanic activity and theorized on the formation of continents1815 — Edward Forbes, a British scientist who wrote extensively on marine biology1948 — Ray Kurzweil, an American inventor who invented the flatbed scanner, the Kurzweil reading machine, the Kurzweil 1000 OCR software, the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary  speech-recognition  software, and the Kurzweil 250 Music Synthesizer February 13 1910 — William Shockley, an American  physicist who co-invented the transistor and won the Nobel Prize in 19561923 — Chuck Yeager, an American test pilot and the first man to break the sound barrier February 14 1838 — Margaret Knight,  inventor of a method of making paper bags1859 — George Ferris,  inventor of the  Ferris wheel (which is why the F is always capitalized in its name!)1869 — Charles Wilson, an English physicist who invented the  Wilson cloud chamber  and won the Nobel Prize1911 — Willem J. Kolff, an  American internist who invented the artificial kidney1917 — Herbert A. Hauptman, an  American X-ray crystallographer who won the Nobel Prize in 1985 February 15 1809 —  Cyrus Hall McCormick,  inventor of a mechanical reaper1819 — Christopher Sholes, inventor  the  typewriter1834 — William Preece, an English electrical engineer who was a pioneer in wireless technology1934 —  Niklaus Wirth, a  Swiss computer programmer who invented the computer language PASCAL February 16 1740 — Giambattista Bodoni, an  Italian printer who invented typeface designs February 17 1781 — Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe  Laennec, a  French inventor who created the  stethoscope1844 — Aaron Montgomery Ward, founder of the mail-order business Montgomery Ward1867 — William Cadbury, the English chocolate manufacturer who founded  Cadbury1874 — Thomas J. Watson, the American businessman credited with establishing  IBM February 18 1743 — Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist who invented the  voltaic  pile, the  first battery1898 — Enzo Ferrari, the car manufacturer who invented the Ferrari February 19 1473 — Nicolaus Copernicus, who  was famous for formulating a model of the universe with the sun at its center rather than Earth1859 — Svante August  Arrhenius, a  Swedish physicist and chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 19031927 — Rene  Firino-Martell, a  Cognac manufacturer who invented several types of Cognac February 20 1844 — Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, an  Austrian physicist who is considered the father of statistical mechanics1901 — Rene Jules Dubos, a microbiologist who wrote Health and Disease1937 — Robert Huber, a  German biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1988 February 21 1909 — Helen O. Dickens Henderson, a noted American physician and gynecologist February 22 1796 — Adolphe Quetelet, a noted mathematician, astronomer, and statistician1822 — Adolf  Kuszmaul, a German physician who invented the stomach pump and discovered Kuszmaul disease1852 — Pieter K. Pel, an internist who discovered Pel-Ebstein fever1857 — Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides1857 — Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist who was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves and helped to invent radar technology1937 — Samuel Whitbread, a noted English brewer1962 — Steve Irwin, the Australian biologist, zoologist, and nature TV show host February 23 1898 — Reinhard Herbig, a German archaeologist1947 — Colin Sanders, a British computer engineer who invented Solid State Logic1953 — Sallie L. Baliunas, an astrophysicist who studied global warming and ozone depletion February 24 1955 —  Steve Jobs,  co-founder of  Apple Inc. February 25 1904 — Adelle Davis, author of Lets  Stay Healthy February 26 1852 — John Harvey Kellogg, creator of the  flaked-cereal  industry and founder of Kellogg Cereal1866 — Herbert Henry Dow, a pioneer in the chemical industry and founder of the Dow Chemical Company February 27 1891 — David Sarnoff, founder of the RCA Corporation1897 — Bernard F.  Lyot, a French astronomer who invented the Lyot filter1899 — Charles Best, who co-discovered  insulin February 28 1933 — Geoffrey Maitland Smith, founder of Sears1663 — Thomas Newcomen,  inventor of an improved  steam engine1896 — Philip Showalter Hench, an  American physician who discovered cortisone and won the  Nobel Prize1901 — Linus Pauling, a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1954 and 19621915 — Peter Medawar, an English zoologist and immunologist who won the Nobel Prize in 19531930 — Leon Cooper, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 19721948 — Steven Chu, an  American scientist who co-won the Nobel Prize  for  Physics in 1997 February 29 1860 —  Herman Hollerith,  the inventor of the first electric tabulating machine