On 12 February 1884, he registered his design under patent number 160267.

It was granted on August 3, 1874 as Canadian patent number 3,738.

Nobel received the American patent number 78,317 for his dynamite in 1867.

This is the serial number of the gun, and not the patent number.

The patent number was 146801 and was filed November 24, 1873.

Patents issued between 1790 and 1975 can be called up only by patent number or classification code.

But the invention itself is at least as noteworthy as the patent number it received.

The patent number cannot be reliably used to determine how old the dispenser is.

Listed below are the patent numbers under which the device is manufactured.