Inventor celebrities

There are some 7 million US patents from 1790 to mid-1996.

Here we dig up a few that celebs themselves created!

Be amazed …

Eddie Van Halen, Musician.

Patent #4,656,917 – Musical instrument support

Zeppo Marx, Actor/Comedian.

Patent #3,473,526 – Cardiac pulse rate monitor

Harry Connick, Jr., Musician/Actor.

Patent #6,348,648 – System and method for coordinating music display among players in an orchestra

Penn Jillette, Magician.

Patent #5,920,923 – Hydro-therapeutic stimulator (for, um, sexual stimulation)

Michael Jackson, Singer.

Patent #5,255,452 – Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion

Abraham Lincoln, President

Patent #6,469 – [Method of] Buoying vessels over shoals

Julie Newmar, Actress (Batman TV Show).

Patent #3,914,799 – Pantyhose with shaping band for cheeky derriere relief

Marlon Brando, Actor.

Patent #6,812,392 – Drumhead tensioning device and method

Lawrence Welk, Musician/Bandleader.

Patent #D170,898 – Welk ash tray (design)

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress.

Patent #4,753,647 – Infant garment

Gary Burghoff, Actor (Radar on M*A*S*H TV Show).

Patent #5,235,774 – Enhanced fish attractor device

Mark Twain, Author.

Patent #140,245 – Improvement in scrap-books

Hedy Lamarr, Actress.

Patent #2,292,387 – Secret communication system

Walt Disney, Animation Innovator.

Patent #2,201,689 – Art of animation (method of filming animation cells with a shadow on the background)

Harry Houdini, Magician.

Patent #1,370,316 – Diver’s suit

Danny Kaye, Actor/Singer/Entertainer.

Patent #D166,807 – Blowout toy or the like (design)

George Lucas, Director.

Patent #D265,754 – Toy figure (design)

Charles Fleischer, Actor (voice of Roger Rabbit).

Patent #4,219,959 – Toy egg

Prince, Musician/Singer.

Patent #D349,127 – Portable electronic keyboard musical instrument (design)

Paul Winchell, Ventriloquist.

Patent #3,097,366 – Artificial Heart

Source: Ironicsans