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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4838070 | Method and apparatus for dry testing water-immersible acoustic transducers A method of testing piezo-electric transducers includes locating one end (11) of a rod (10) of solid material over the active head (20) of the transducer, the rod (10) simulating the normal acoustic impedance presented to the transducer by the normal medi... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4810960 | Measuring adjacent channel power A signal source from a transmitter is down-converted by being mixed with a locally generated signal so that a desired adjacent channel band is converted to base band and the adjacent channel power measured after filtering by a low pass filter. To eliminat... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4582491 | Training apparatus An apparatus for training a user in contamination surveillance. The contamination may be from a nuclear, bacteriological or chemical explosion or leak, for example. The apparatus is portable and can be carried by the user to various points of an exercise ... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4112340 | Control devices A manually rotatable control knob is coupled to a d.c. ironless motor which maintains rotation of the knob once it is initially spun by hand. The initial back e.m.f. of the motor is sensed and is used via a feedback loop having a particular time constant ... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4107585 | Control devices A control device which is suitable for use with electronic apparatus is used to scan a range of signal or data values, such as a frequency spectrum, and to cease scanning when a selected parameter is found. The scanning operation is driven by a d.c. ironl... | 08/15/1978 |
