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 |
| 6235337 | Soybean milk, soybean milk pack and process for producing the same and process for manufacturing tofu by using the same A process for producing a soybean milk and soybean milk pack includes cooking ground soybeans with the use of superheated steam containing no or little oxygen, thus extracting soybean proteins to give a cooked bean juice of the soybeans; separating a soli... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6131504 | Boiling pot The caldron of the invention comprises a cylindrical caldron main body having a raw material charge port for charging a water-added raw material to be boiled and a discharge port for discharging a boiled raw material, both ports being disposed near to bot... | 10/17/2000 |
