Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| 7673864 | Folding device and printing system A folding device for folding continuous paper, which is previously provided with fold lines at given intervals, along the fold lines in a zigzag pattern. The folding device comprises a feeding member of the continuous paper, a swinger fin that swings using its one e... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7621969 | Mounting system A mounting system is provided with a substrate loader section, a chip mounting section, and a substrate unloader section for sequentially taking out substrates whereupon chips are mounted. The mounting system is characterized in that the substrate loader section is ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7614338 | Piston, method of producing the piston, and pump having the piston A piston 1 which is to be movably supported in a cylinder 11 of a pump 10 to be reciprocally driven is formed by a fluororesin so that it is not impaired by a corrosive liquid. A cylindrical outer peripheral portion 2 of the piston 1 | 11/10/2009 |
| 7591899 | Applicator device An applicator device comprises a reservoir tank trapping embrocation, a stage holding a substrate, a ferrule having a slit-shaped opening section above the stage, a fluid transfer pump guiding the embrocation within the reservoir tank to the ferrule, a first opening... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7573387 | Continuous paper processing system A continuous paper processing system comprises a post-processing device for continuous paper equipped with at least one RFID tag, an RFID reader for reading electronic information written in the RFID tag, storage device that stores check information to be checked ag... | 08/11/2009 |
