{"id":4969,"date":"2025-09-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:42:43","slug":"september-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"September 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On September 29, 1914, Thomas Edison received U.S. Patent No. 1,111,999 on a phonograph record.  The patent covered both the cylindrical phonograph record and the more widely adopted disk version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-652x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-652x1024.png 652w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-768x1206.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-978x1536.png 978w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-1304x2048.png 1304w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-scaled.png 1631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Edison fans, Rutgers University maintains an <a href=\"https:\/\/edisondigital.rutgers.edu\/indexes\">archive<\/a> of Edison&#8217;s papers, which include this letter to his legal department about the above-invention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"626\" height=\"837\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-6.png 626w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-6-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 199 U.S. Patents that Edison obtained related to the phonograph, sixteen related to the records themselves: U.S. Patent Nos. 382,418, 382,462, 400,648, 406,659, 406,576, 414,759, 414,761, 430,274, 437,429, 488,191, 839,372, 1,111,999, 1,158,659, 1,158,660, 1,234,450, and 1,248,468.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 29, 1914, Thomas Edison received U.S. Patent No. 1,111,999 on a phonograph record. The patent covered both the cylindrical phonograph record and the more widely adopted disk version: For Edison fans, Rutgers University maintains an archive of Edison&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4969\">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-4969","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\/4969","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=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}