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 |
| 6970946 | System management information processing method for use with a plurality of operating systems having different message formats A controller connected to computers analyzes messages from the computers and converts the analyzed messages into a different format. The controller also generates correspondence information for the message. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966014 | Method for system obstacle correspondence support To generate a command for dealing with error message from accumulated information and transmit the command to information processing as transmission place, a process analyzes error message received by a communication process, searches file based on analysis of the e... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6563258 | Color cathode ray tube having an improved electron gun electrode A color cathode ray tube has a phosphor screen and an electron gun. The electron gun includes an electron beam generating section for emitting three in-line electron beams toward the phosphor screen and an electron beam focusing section for focusing the e... | 05/13/2003 |
| 5993953 | Laminated paper for cushioning material A laminated paper, including a water soluble polyvinyl alcohol layer of 15-40 μm thickness having an air permeability of 800,000 seconds/100 ml or higher, a total thickness of 40-100 μm and a lengthwise softness of 50 g or less. The laminated paper has ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5557736 | Computer system and job transfer method using electronic mail system In an electronic mail associated type computer system network equipped with a computer system for executing a job and a general-purpose electronic mail system, a user of an electronic mail can freely recognize a condition of an execution result of a job p... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5537543 | Electronic mail drive type computer system and file operation method having a mail terminal operating independently of a computer system connected thereto In an arrangement of a mail terminal 1, an electronic mail system 2, a job control terminal 4, and a computer system 3, a user makes a proposal of a file operation via a mail by way of the mail terminal 1. The electronic mail system 2 stores therein the p... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5408334 | Method and apparatus for having a processor execute a job utilizing an electronic mail system A job control terminal creates a unit configuration table indicating the configuration of units connected to each of a plurality of processors in a multi-processor system. The job control terminal also creates an operating state table indicating an operat... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5394550 | System for affecting recompilation of source code In compiling a source program by a compiler and sequentially generating an intermediate code, the intermediate code is managed by referencing it to the corresponding statement of the source program. When an error is detected during the compiling operation... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5172378 | Error detection method and apparatus for processor having main storage In an information processor having a central processing unit, a main storage which is accessed by the central processing unit, and an input/output processing unit which controls transfer of information between the central processing unit as well as the ma... | 12/15/1992 |
