"What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense."
Napoleon Bonaparte ; When told of the Robert Fulton steamboat
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7055250 | Machine tool for cutting plate and sandwich panels A machine for cutting plate-shaped workpieces, incorporates a tool guide (7), an operating handle (13), and a cutting tool (6) which revolves along the tool guide (7). By moving the operating handle (13), the tool guide (7) ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6733216 | Hand-held milling machine A hand-held milling machine (1) has a cutting tool (9, 10) which protrudes from a machine support (3) on the side facing the workpiece. A screw-type clamping mechanism allows the cutting tool (9, 10) and the machine support (3) to ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 5044080 | Hand held nibbling machine A hand-held nibbling machine has a manipulatable housing containing a motor and a transmission assembly for converting rotary motion to reciprocating linear motion. A tool assembly includes a housing portion, a ram reciprocatable in a passage in the housi... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4757596 | Rivet A rivet has a head and an elongated shank of generally circular cross section extending axially therefrom. The head has a periphery including a multiplicity of spaced portions projecting radially outwardly of the periphery of the shank and at least three ... | 07/19/1988 |