{"id":2235,"date":"2018-12-14T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:22:34","slug":"window-into-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Window into the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patents can be an interesting window into the past.\u00a0 For example on December 14, 1937, U.S. Patent No. D107425 issued to Wallace K. Harrison and J. Andre Fouilhoux on a model of an architectural unit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D105475.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2236\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D105475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The design is of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trylon_and_Perisphere\">Trylon, Perisphere, and Helicline<\/a> that became the central symbol of the 1939 New York World&#8217;s Fair, reproduced by the millions on a wide range of promotional materials.\u00a0 \u00a0and serving as the fairground&#8217;s focal point.\u00a0 The structures were\u00a0razed and scrapped after the closing of the fair, and their materials repurposed into World War II armaments, but the image and the optimism for the future they were intended to convey, persist in the records of the USPTO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patents can be an interesting window into the past.\u00a0 For example on December 14, 1937, U.S. Patent No. D107425 issued to Wallace K. Harrison and J. Andre Fouilhoux on a model of an architectural unit. The design is of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}