Patent Greeting Cards

Text on the reverse side: The English inventor Henry Mill had patented a similar machine long ago in 1714, which never seems to have gone into prod...

Text on the reverse side: The first digital camera was developed by Kodak in 1975. It was dropped due to fears that it would threaten their photogr...

Text on the reverse side: With the absence of gears, old fashioned bikes relied on having bigger wheels to propel a bigger push from the pedals for...

Text on the reverse side: Isaac Merritt Singer came from humble beginnings. Working in a machine-shop in Boston in 1851, he was given a sewing mach...

Text on the reverse side: Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum. The Grand Café, in Oxford, is the site where Engla...

Text on the reverse side: The first record player was commercially released to the masses back in 1895. The 60s and 70s became the golden age of vi...

Text on the reverse side: The earliest written record describing a palette is by the Dukes of Burgundy in the late 1460s as 'trenchers of wood for ...

Text on the reverse side: The first fountain pen with a built in reservoir was produced in 1844. The first nibs were made of gold alloys. They were...

Text on the reverse side: The record for the most number of people (3,083 people) knitting together took place in September 2012 at the Royal Alber...

Text on the reverse side: The Star Wars astromech droid, often referred to as R2, served several masters over his lifetime. With independence and a...

Text on the reverse side: In Armidale Australia, 777 couples, totalling 1,554 participants, took part in the largest human wheelbarrow race. The ea...

Text on the reverse side: The first stethoscope was invented in 1816 by French doctor René Laënnec. Prior to this invention, physicians would carry...

Text on the reverse side: The first motion pictures were introduced back in the late 1800s, although it usually consisted of a single scene that la...

Text on the reverse side: One percent of people are born with a thirteenth rib called a cervical rib. For the reason that this could potentially ca...

Text on the reverse side: Adults have 206 bones of which 106 of them are in our hands and feet. We are born with almost 100 more bones as babies. T...

Text on the reverse side: The first American steam locomotive was originally imported from England in 1830, and it was not until later that year th...

Text on the reverse side: Quill pens were used as a writing tool before other pens were invented. Made from a flight feather of a large bird, they ...

Text on the reverse side: With railroads in North America wanting to run trains at night, the first recorded solution before electric headlights, w...

Text on the reverse side: Watercolour paint is a mix of pigment (natural or synthetic) that are ground together and held together with a water-solu...

Text on the reverse side: C-3PO, the Star Wars droid was programmed primarily for etiquette and protocol. Impressively, he was fluent in over six m...

Text on the reverse side: The TIE/LN starfighter or TIE/line starfighter from Star Wars, often called TIE Fighter or T/F, is often seen in huge num...

Text on the reverse side: The starfighter can be identified by their distinctive S-foils resembling the High Galactic script's character "X" in att...

Text on the reverse side: In the 19th century, pocket watches dominated the industry, and the wristwatch primarily were made for women who did not ...

Text on the reverse side: Louis Vuitton, after an apprenticeship in Paris, opened his own box-making workshop in 1854. The iconic monogram canvas w...

Text on the reverse side: Although digging the soil is a labour intensive part of gardening, it is an essential preparation filled with benefits fo...

Text on the reverse side: The world’s largest camera was built in 1899, commissioned by Chicago & Alton Railway, to take the largest photograph...

Text on the reverse side: The advancement of technology has made video recording more accessible and affordable. In the mid 1950s, video recorders ...

Text on the reverse side: The oldest surviving terrestrial globe was made in 1492 by Martin Behaim (1459–1537). A6 size (148mm x 105mm) Luxury pe...

Text on the reverse side: The term "watering pot" was first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1580. Early versions were made of copper, ...

Text on the reverse side: Although today, linen, wool, silk and cotton yarns are mostly used, early sewers used thread made from leather thongs, gu...

Text on the reverse side: A dress form is a model of the torso used for fitting clothing in the process of it being designed or sewed. Some call th...

Text on the reverse side: First established in 1903, Harley-Davidson created their first motorcycle in a humble ten by fifteen wooden shed. Their v...

Text on the reverse side: Early tea bags were hand-sewn fabric bags, with patents dating as early as 1903 with their first commercial appearance ar...

Text on the reverse side: Blank audio cassettes saw record sales in 1996 of over 2 billion. Although there are no precise figures, it is estimated ...

Text on the reverse side: The most expensive guitar sold for $2.8million at an auction to raise money for victims of a 2004 earthquake. It feature...

Text on the reverse side: First models of bicycles were called velocipedes, which were created in France, but its modern design was born in England...