...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6552669 | Automated air-traffic advisory system and method A method and apparatus for automatically providing advisories to pilots in a monitored airspace comprises monitoring weather conditions and air traffic in an airspace and then generating and broadcasting advisories over a radio channel in response to rele... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6380869 | Automated air-traffic advisory system and method A method and apparatus for automatically providing advisories to pilots in a monitored airspace comprises monitoring weather conditions and air traffic in an airspace and then generating and broadcasting advisories over a radio channel in response to rele... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6181260 | Automatic weather monitoring and adaptive transmitting system A method for automatically providing weather advisories for an airport to pilots comprises monitoring weather conditions at the airport and then generating weather advisories in response to these weather conditions. The broadcast traffic on a common traff... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5434565 | Automatic weather monitoring and adaptive transmitting system A method for automatically providing weather advisories for an airport to pilots comprises monitoring weather conditions at the airport and then generating weather advisories in response to these weather conditions. The broadcast traffic on a common traff... | 07/18/1995 |