Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4660628 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger (10) for indirectly heating, drying and cooling materials comprises a hollow rotor (40) having an inlet (46) of heating and cooling medium and an outlet (47) of the medium or its condensate, a casing mounted on the hollow rotor, a plurali... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4653198 | Plant for drying animal or vegetable material A plant for heat treating animal or vegetable material comprises apparatuses for two-stage or multi-stage heat treatment. A heat medium which is used in a second heat treatment apparatus (2), which follows a first heat treatment apparatus (1), consists of... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4593614 | Apparatus for the production of fodder and fat from animal raw materials The apparatus for the production of fodder and fat from animal raw materials such as slaughter house waste includes a heating apparatus for heating the raw material, a pressing apparatus for separating the heated material into a solid material phase and a... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4565124 | Screw presses Screw press with one or more screws having a sieve surface. The screw is fabricated to have a reinforced construction by way of a rigid main stem portion disposed radially inwards of a rigid sieve-forming surface portion and reinforcing ribs disposed betw... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4438691 | Screw press arrangements Screw press arrangement having two or more screw threads arranged side-by-side in a relatively tightly fitting press basket having openings for the drainage of fluid from the material which is fed into the press. At the feeding-in portion the core of the ... | 03/27/1984 |
