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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7177671 | RF coil, RF signal transmitter receiver, RF signal receiver, and magnetic resonance imaging system for the inferior abdomen For the purpose of providing an RF coil that enables satisfactory imaging of the prostate, the RF coil is composed of a first saddle coil and a second saddle coil. The first saddle coil has two loop portions opposed to each other so that they can sandwich the inferi... | 02/13/2007 |
