Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5574905 | Method and apparatus for multimedia editing and data recovery A specialized linked-list editing structure is used to order multimedia file segments in a multimedia file to be edited. Each multimedia file segment is comprised of a number of contiguous data units, which may preferably be bytes, that are portions of th... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5530762 | Real-time digital audio reverberation system A software reverberator system produces a sequence of "reverberated" samples from an input digital word sequence where each word in the input sequence comprises a digitized sample of an original analog audio signal. The invention generates the reverberate... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5528514 | Luminance transition coding method for software motion video compression/decompression An digital video image processing system employs codes of various lengths to encode the luminance information within the digital video images. The inventive method and apparatus divides a video image into non-overlapping regions containing a plurality of ... | 06/18/1996 |
