Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5219550 | Production of low boron lithium carbonate from lithium-containing brine The present invention relates to a novel process for producing, from a lithium-containing brine, a low boron lithium carbonate compound. This compound is particularly useful for conversion to a highly pure lithium chloride for the production of lithium me... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5196138 | Preparation of mixed lithium amide reagents A method for preparing a poorly soluble lithium amides in greater concentration by preparing a mixture of lithium amides wherein one of said lithium amides is soluble and another lithium amide is less soluble, and the reagent compositions formed thereby.... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5173209 | Stable lithium cycloalkylimides A composition of at least one lithium cycloalkyl imide of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R' each represent a hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and x and y are integers of 1 to 3.... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5149457 | Stable mixed lithium amide reagent compositions A method for preparing lithium amides in a monocyclic aromatic solvent and the reagent compositions formed thereby.... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5068368 | Stabilized lithium acetylide and reactions therewith A process for the preparation of ethynyl carbinols of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R" is hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon, R'" is a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon or R" and R'... | 11/26/1991 |
| 4980136 | Production of lithium metal grade lithium chloride from lithium-containing brine The present invention relates to a novel process for producing, from a lithium-containing brine, a substantially pure lithium chloride product. This product is particularly useful for the production of lithium metal by electrolysis.... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4867956 | Active oxygen-rich compound and preparative method There is provided a novel active-oxygen rich lithium, boron, oxygen compound having the empirical formula and a method for making the same.... | 09/19/1989 |
