Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5171702 | Method for forming a thick base oxide in a BiCMOS process A BiCMOS structure and a method for making the same is disclosed, where the dielectric layer between the emitter electrode and the base region is formed of a deposited dielectric. After definition of the bipolar and MOS moat regions, a layer of polysilico... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5120672 | Fabricating a single level merged EEPROM cell having an ONO memory stack substantially spaced from the source region An electrically, programmable read-only memory cell is formed at a face (10) of a semiconductor layer (12). This cell comprises a doped drain region (36) and a doped source region (38) that are spaced from each other by a gate region (40). An ONO memory s... | 06/09/1992 |
