{"id":4866,"date":"2025-07-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:41:01","slug":"july-25-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4866","title":{"rendered":"July 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 25 is National Carousel Day aka National Merry-Go-Round Day. The designation was created by the National Carousel Association (N.C.A.) as a way to mark the issuance of the first U.S. patent for a carousel — U.S. Patent No. 117,336 issued ti Willhelm Schneider of Davenport, Iowa:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Schneider’s carousel was a two-stories, with a staircase between them. As the title of the patent (Improvement in Carrousels) suggests, this was not the first carousel in the U.S. — that honor appears to go to Franz Wiesenoffer who built a carousel in the 1840’s in Hessville, Ohio. However, carousels were build and being operated at various fairs and gatherings in Central Europe since the early 18th Century..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 25 is National Carousel Day aka National Merry-Go-Round Day. The designation was created by the National Carousel Association (N.C.A.) as a way to mark the issuance of the first U.S. patent for a carousel — U.S. Patent No. 117,336 … Continue reading →<\/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-4866","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\/4866","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=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}