@article{12636, note = {Originally published as: Historical first patents : the first United States patent for many everyday things. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994.}, author = {Brown, Travis,}, url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/12636}, title = {Popular patents : America's first inventions from the airplane to the zipper /}, abstract = {Contains more than eighty stories of America's first inventions, among them the AC induction motor, glass bottles, bottle cap, helicopter, and submarine.}, recid = {12636}, pages = {vii, 21 pages ;}, }