{"id":5002,"date":"2025-11-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:50:27","slug":"november-8-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5002","title":{"rendered":"November 8, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 8, 1910, U.S. Patent No. 974785 on an Electric Insect Destroyer issued to William M. Frost:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"847\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png 519w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However electric bug zappers go back even further. 20 years earlier, on April 1, 1890, Francois Scherer received U.S. Patent No. 424729 on an Electric Trap:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4.png 556w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 8, 1910, U.S. Patent No. 974785 on an Electric Insect Destroyer issued to William M. Frost: However electric bug zappers go back even further. 20 years earlier, on April 1, 1890, Francois Scherer received U.S. Patent No. 424729 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5002\">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-5002","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\/5002","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=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}