...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6061709 | Integrated hardware and software task control executive A method and system for permitting a software-based executive to execute concurrently with a hardware-based executive. The software-based executive allocates hardware executive tasks, hardware executive interrupts, software executive tasks, and software e... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6047038 | System for, and method of, regulating the amount of power provided by battery in a processing apparatus A first device provides a repetitive count of time. A second device indicates in each successive count of time by the first device during the processing apparatus operation whether the processing apparatus has processed data for at least a first particula... | 04/04/2000 |