{"id":339,"date":"2016-01-17T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:33:21","slug":"january-17-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"January 17 Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 17, 1899, U.S. Patent No. 617,778. issued to Charles D. Seeberger on an\u00a0 escalator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-340\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160117.jpg\" alt=\"20160117\" width=\"502\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160117.jpg 502w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160117-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160117-500x248.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a>Seeberger\u00a0did not actually invent &#8220;the&#8221; escalator, as there were several earlier patents, including to Souder U.S. Patent No. 406,314 in 1889 (which was never built), to Reno U.S. Patent No. 470918 in 1892, and Wheeler U.S. Patent No. 479864 in 1892 (which was never built).\u00a0 Seeberger bought Wheeler&#8217;s patent, teamed with Otis, and in 1899\u00a0produced the first commercial escalator, which won the first prize at the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 17, 1899, U.S. Patent No. 617,778. issued to Charles D. Seeberger on an\u00a0 escalator. Seeberger\u00a0did not actually invent &#8220;the&#8221; escalator, as there were several earlier patents, including to Souder U.S. Patent No. 406,314 in 1889 (which was never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=339\">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-339","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\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}