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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| 7206009 | Heating head for erasing a printed image on re-writable media A heating head which functions as an erase head for quick operation can be turned off while not in use yet it can turn on when it is used (on-demand operation) and operates stably without over-heating even for the long operation, re-writable media record erasing equ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7113623 | Methods and systems for display and analysis of moving arterial tree structures Methods and systems for reconstruction of a three-dimensional representation of a moving arterial tree structure from a pair of sequences of time varying two-dimensional images thereof and for analysis of the reconstructed representation. In one aspect of the invent... | 09/26/2006 |
| 6895019 | System for recovering lost information in a data stream by means of parity packets Data which is transmitted over the internet or other transmission networks is first divided up into individual information packets, transmitted and then reassembled into useful data after reception. Parity packets are included in with the information packets in the ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6868459 | Methods and structure for transfer of burst transactions having unspecified length Methods and associated structure for providing a substitute, predetermined, fixed length when transferring burst transactions from one device to another through a bridge device where the burst transaction has an indefinite length specified. In one exemplary preferre... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6246551 | Overscan helical scan head for non-tracking tape subsystems reading at up to 1X speed and methods for simulation of same A helical scan drum design for use in non-tracking tape devices which assures 70% coverage of a track to be read by overscanning with at least two read heads at approximate 1× speed. The present invention further provides a simulation method for evaluati... | 06/12/2001 |
