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 |
| 6005811 | Method for operating a memory A memory system is able to simultaneously access multiple rows in page mode operation. The multiple page memory includes a memory array with multiple internal read registers to improve the effective page cycle time. The multiple page memory of this invent... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5906631 | Method and device for sealing vascular puncture wounds Method and device for sealing puncture wounds in a vascular walls wherein a cylinder of compliant material with a coating of hydrophilic material is placed with one end of the cylinder against the side wall of a vessel. Axial pressure is then applied to t... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5888110 | Steerable towcraft with roostertail Steerable towcraft having a buoyant body upon which a person can ride, a towline attached to body and adapted for connection to the pulling vessel, a fin on the under side of the body for guiding the body through water, and a steering line connected to th... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5885319 | System and method for processing effluvia gas to produce enriched fertilizer System and method for processing an effluvia gas containing NOX and sulfur dioxide to produce an enriched fertilizer. The gas is brought into contact with a host liquid and calcium oxide to convert the NOX to calcium nitrate and the ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5883055 | Bowling lane oil in aerosol container Bowling lane conditioning oil in an aerosol container which has a propellant for dispensing the oil through a spray nozzle in an aerosol form. The oil includes a mixture of mineral oil, a leveling agent, and an antistatic agent. The mineral oil is a combi... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5830713 | Methods for preparing synthetic repetitive DNA Methods are provided for the production of large polypeptides containing repeating sequences of amino acids utilizing biochemical techniques, specifically DNA sequences coding for the expression of the large polypeptides. Systems utilizing exogenous trans... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5817303 | Bonding together tissue with adhesive containing polyfunctional crosslinking agent and protein polymer Proteinaceous polymers having repetitive units from naturally occurring structural proteins are employed as backbones for functionalities for crosslinking to provide strongly adherent tissue adhesives and sealants. Particularly, block copolymers having re... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815661 | Platform independent object and object application loader and method A class loader downloads objects and object viewers from remote computer nodes, and invokes locally stored object viewers to view objects. When a user selects an object to view, a conventional downloading of the referenced object is initiated. The class l... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5808012 | Protein-enriched thermoplastics Thermoplastics interdispersed with a variety of functional thermostable proteins and methods for their production are provided. To prepare the subject thermoplastics, a plastic material is contacted with a thermostable polypeptide and then subjected to th... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5685647 | Single plate hydrodynamic bearing with self-balancing fluid level and fluid circulation The present invention includes four sections or partitions: two thrust bearings which are formed by the sides of a grooved thrust plate and corresponding countersurfaces, the thrust bearings designed to cause fluid flow in a single direction up around the... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5673175 | PCI expansion card double-door retainer Computers are manufactured with connectors in which are inserted at least one PCI expansion card to increase the capacity of the computer. A computer enclosure panel is formed with first opening for insertion and withdrawal of the card. The card has a cov... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5450263 | Thin film inductors, inductor network and integration with other passive and active devices The fabrication of thin film inductors on a substrate, which may include thin film resistors, thin film capacitors, and semiconductor devices. In one embodiment an inductor is fabricated initially on a substrate and then integrated with other devices subs... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5432887 | Neural network system and method for factory floor scheduling Methods are developed on a digital computer for performing work order scheduling activity in a dynamic factory floor environment, in a manner which enables scheduling heuristic knowledge from a scheduler to be encoded through an adaptive learning process,... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5412309 | Current amplifiers A novel power amplifier output stage is taught which provides rail-to-rail output voltage swings, high current source and sink capability, which is capable of class AB operation to provide low distortion amplification. The power amplifier of this inventio... | 05/02/1995 |
