{"id":5271,"date":"2026-07-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2026-07-07T06:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:14:20","slug":"july-7-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5271","title":{"rendered":"July 7, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On July 7, 1914, Charles Lowell Howard received U.S. Patent No. 1,102,270 on a Pneumatically Operated Display Device:<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to Mr. Howard’s invention “provided a flag pole whereby “air under pressure
is admitted to a hollow body, such as a flag pole, and issues from orifices in said body
onto an object, such as a flag, so as to give said object such motion as is produced by
a natural current of air.” In simpler terms, the flag waves even where there is not a breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the wonderful thing about inventors — they are working tirelessly to solve problems we didn’t even know we had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On July 7, 1914, Charles Lowell Howard received U.S. Patent No. 1,102,270 on a Pneumatically Operated Display Device: According to Mr. Howard’s invention “provided a flag pole whereby “air under pressureis admitted to a hollow body, such as a flag … 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-5271","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\/5271","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=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}