Who Invented The Fly Swat?
Who Invented The Fly Swat? 2. John Jackson of Clinton, Iowa patented the first device called “fly swatter” (U.S. patent No. 1,124,138, 15 January 1915). Who invented mosquito swatter? A Taiwanese inventor, Tsao-I Shih, is often credited with inventing the modern mosquito racket; he filed for a patent for an “electronic insect-killing swatter” in 1996.