...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7893325 | plant resistant to the fungus (blackleg) The invention relates to fungal disease resistance, in particular to resistance to blackleg disease caused by Leptosphaeria maculans. Provided are Brassica plants and seeds comprising a fragment of chromosome 8 of a wild B. rapa accession in the... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7598365 | Targeted DNA insertion in plants Methods and means are provided to improve targeted DNA insertion in plants using rare-cleaving “double stranded break” inducing enzymes. Also provided are improved I-SceI encoding nucleotide sequences. ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 6855873 | Recombinant plant expressing non-competitively binding Bt insecticidal cryatal proteins Plants made resistant to insects by transforming their nuclear genome with two or more DNA sequences, each encoding a different non-competitively binding B. thuringiensis protoxin or insecticidal part thereof, preferably the toxin thereof. ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6818807 | Herbicide tolerant cotton plants having event EE-GH1 The invention pertains to transgenic cotton plants, plant material and seeds, characterized by having the EE-GH1 transformation event, particularly by the presence of a gene encoding a protein that confers herbicide tolerance, at a specific location in the cotton ge... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6483013 | Method for agrobacterium mediated transformation of cotton This invention relates to improved methods for the production of transgenic cotton plants, comprising cocultivating Agrobacterium cells comprising a DNA fragment of interest operably linked to at least one T-DNA border with cotton embryogenic callus in th... | 11/19/2002 |