Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7210276 | Wooden floor The invention relates to a wooden floor, consisting of a hardenable adhesive (12) which is painted onto a floor base (10) in a continuous layer, and covering elements (16) consisting of wood or a wood material that are joined to the adhesive in ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 6602973 | Method for producing one-component sealing and coating compounds with a polyurethane base A method for producing a one-component sealing and coating compound with a polyurethane base. The method provides a simpler means of production as well as guarantees improved storage stability of the compounds produced, and comprises the following steps: ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6077884 | Aqueous dispersion of epoxy resin and blend of epoxy resin-polyoxyalkylene amines A blend of epoxy-amine adducts are useful as emulsifiers of aqueous epoxy resin dispersions comprises (A-1) one or more epoxy-amine adduct(s) obtained by the reaction of (i) one or more aromatic, cycloaliphatic or novolac epoxy compound(s) and (ii) one or... | 06/20/2000 |
