Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4791550 | Higher order language-directed computer A higher order language-directed computer architecture particularly adaptable for fourth generation program languages. The computer includes a memory which stores package modules and task modules for programs, each of which includes a control segment repr... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4766536 | Computer bus apparatus with distributed arbitration A bus apparatus for interconnecting a plurality of nodes is disclosed. The nodes may comprise processors, input/output subsystems, or the like. Each node maintains a unique priority number; the priority numbers are determined independently by each node. S... | 08/23/1988 |
