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 |
| 7490859 | Device for retaining a boot on a snowboard A binding for a boot includes a platen (4) which is manually mountable to a snowboard in a selected angular position. The platen includes a central hole (4a) and a circular array of upwardly facing teeth (4c). A base (9), mo... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7419179 | Snow skis A snow ski board (1) such as a ski, monoski, or a snowboard, with a vertical plane of general symmetry (P) includes a body or base (2) that includes at least in a binding zone (3) two hollow lateral recesses (8a, 8b) ... | 09/02/2008 |
