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...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7378490 | Cyclic peptides and aids vaccines Cyclic peptides comprising, as a constituent chain or chains, one or two amino acid sequences selected from the groups consisting of the amino acid sequence Glu-Ala-Asp-Asp-Arg and the amino acid sequence Ser-Gln-Lys-Glu-Gly, and AIDS vaccines containing the cyclic ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 6943233 | Cyclic peptides and aids vaccines Cyclic peptides which comprise, as a constituent chain or chains thereof, one or two amino acid sequences selected from the amino acid sequence Asn-Val-Ser-Glu-Ala-Asp-Asp-Arg-Tyr-Ile and the amino acid sequence Arg-Ser-Gln-Lys-Glu-Gly-Leu-His-Tyr-Thr, and AIDS vacc... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6846453 | Housing of immunochromatography apparatus A housing for an immunochromatography apparatus capable of detecting the concentration of an analyte contained in a sample even if it is relatively low in concentration is provided. In the housing 1 of immunochromatography apparatus having an observation wind... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6451545 | Monoclonal antibody specific to anti-human fibrin monomer, process for producing the same, hybridomas, and immunoassay method Provided are a monoclonal antibody making it possible to detect a native fibrin monomer, which is produced at the initial state of blood coagulation, and soluble fibrin; a hybridoma; and an immunoassay for detecting the initial stage of blood coagulation ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6448001 | Analytical method, kit, and apparatus Providing an assay method capable of simultaneously determining the presence or absence of one or more species of biological substances or assaying the amounts thereof with a single assay device, a kit therefor and an assay device thereof. The amount ther... | 09/10/2002 |
| 5789165 | Method and reagent for simultaneously assaying one or more ligands in a group of preselected ligands The assay reagent and kit of the present invention suppress non-specific binding of a labeled substance onto a solid phase, and can assay one or more species of antibodies or one or more species of antigens by means of a single reagent in a simple manner.... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5756363 | Liposome reagent for immunoagglutination and immunoanalytical method An immunoagglutination reagent includes liposomes, as a carrier, with a covalently bound antigen or antibody immobilized thereon. The reagent is used to assay an antibody or an antigen on the basis of agglutination. The assaying can be done at a high sens... | 05/26/1998 |
