Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6158239 | Desalination through gas hydrate In one embodiment, this invention pertains to desalination of seawater by eding methane into seawater at a depth generally exceeding 100 meters to form methane hydrate which rises to where it is decomposed into methane and water, and recoverig water. Meth... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6145342 | Catalyzed preparation of amorphous chalcogenides Sol-gel process conducted under an inert gas in a solvent at a temperature up to the boiling points of the solvent and by-products by reacting a chalcogen source, a glass network former-intermediate metal in the form of an alkoxide or a non-alkoxide and a... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6133593 | Channel design to reduce impact ionization in heterostructure field-effect transistors Heterostructure field-effect transistors (HFETs) and other electronic devs are fabricated from a series of semiconductor layers to have reduced impact ionization. On to a first barrier layer there is added a unique second subchannel layer having high qua... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6113451 | Atomically sharp field emission cathodes An electron emitting device characterized by a monocrystalline substrate, a plurality of monocrystalline nanomesas or pillars disposed on the subste in a spaced relationship and extending generally normally therefrom, monocrystalline self-assembled tips... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6087005 | Adhesion of silicon oxide to diamond An article includes a diamond substrate which is securely adhered to a rot layer of silica layer that cannot be scratched by a tungsten probe or delaminated from the diamond substrate by pulling on a gold wire secured to the silica layer. This aricle can... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6066028 | Polishing of copper A composition for chemical mechanical polishing of copper that includes 05% by volume of an etchant such as nitric acid, ammonium hydroxide, hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, or ammonium chloride; 0.1-1% by weight of an azole selected from benzotriazole an... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6022584 | Making large porous aggregates The process for making a porous mass containing dense aggregates or granu includes the steps of mixing powder with more than 10% by weight of a binder to form agglomerated powder, heating the agglomerated powder to remove the binder and to grow crystalli... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6015765 | Rare earth soluble telluride glasses A telluride glass with glass transition temperature above 150° C., fference between the crystallization temperature and the glass transition temperature of above 200° C., and extended transmission in the infrared region of radiation of up to 20 microns ... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6007926 | Phase stablization of zirconia Stabilized zirconia containing sintered particles of alumina and zirconia tetragonal phase at temperatures below about 1150° C. is prepared by mixing alumina particles of less than 30 nanometers with zirconia particles of less than 30 nanometers in pres... | 12/28/1999 |
