{"id":5229,"date":"2026-06-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:02:47","slug":"june-26-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5229","title":{"rendered":"June 26, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 26, 1797, U.S. Patent X177 on a plough, issued to Charles Newbold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-9.png 957w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-9-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-9-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-9-500x294.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the first U.S. patent on a plough, and was followed a steady stream of improvements in agricultural technology.  One of the more peculiar of which was the combination plow and cannon, patented by French &amp; Fancher in 1862 (U.S. Patent No. 36600), which must have made the plow-horse very nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-10.png 552w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-10-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 26, 1797, U.S. Patent X177 on a plough, issued to Charles Newbold. This was the first U.S. patent on a plough, and was followed a steady stream of improvements in agricultural technology. One of the more peculiar of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5229\">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-5229","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\/5229","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=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}