In several parts of the world, an Inventor's Day is celebrated.

Argentina

The Inventors' Day (Spanish: Día del Inventor) in Argentina has been celebrated since 1986 and is held yearly on September 29, the birthday of the inventor of the ballpoint pen, László József Bíró. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Disposable ballpoint pen, disassembled (top) and complete (bottom) A ballpoint pen, also eponymously known in British English as a biro (pronounced bye-row in Britain but sometimes bee-row elsewhere, depending on location), is a modern writing instrument. ... Ladislao Laszlo Josef Biro (Bíró László József, September 19, 1899 - November 24, 1985) is considered the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen. ...

Europe

The Inventors' Day (German: Tag der Erfinder) in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland is celebrated on November 9, the birthday of the inventor and Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr whose main invention was the Frequency-hopped spread spectrum. November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian/Jewish-American actress and communications technology innovator. ... An invention an object, patent, process, or technique which displays an element of novelty. ... Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) is a spread-spectrum method of transmitting signals by rapidly switching a carrier among many frequency channels, using a pseudorandom sequence known to both transmitter and receiver. ...

The day was proclaimed by Berlin inventor and entrepreneur Gerhard Muthenthaler. According to the website of the organisation it intends to pursue the following goals: Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by an Irish economist named Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. ...

• Encourage people towards their own ideas and for a change to the better
• Remind people of forgotten inventors

United States

In recognition of the enormous contribution inventors make to the nation and the world, the Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 (Public Law 97 - 198), has designated February 11, the anniversary of the birth of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison who had over 1,000 patents, as National Inventors' Day. An inventor is a person who creates or discovers new methods, means, or devices. ... Congress in Joint Session. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which...

External links

• Inventors-Day.com
• Proclamation 5013 (United States)