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...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8023437 | Methods, systems and program products for a distributed communications configuration One example embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for communicating streaming data between a plurality of users participating in a real-time communications event over a packet based data network. One example method comprises steps of a source identifyi... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7516671 | Sensor chip and apparatus for tactile and/or flow sensing A sensor chip, comprising a flexible, polymer-based substrate, and at least one microfabricated sensor disposed on the substrate and including a conductive element. The at least one sensor comprises at least one of a tactile sensor and a flow sensor. Other embodimen... | 04/14/2009 |
| D534549 | Air compressor shroud | 01/02/2007 |
| 5692059 | Two active element in-the-ear microphone system The herein described invention relates to an ear mounted, in-the-ear compound microphone system which simultaneously uses both an accelerometer, or vibration transducer, to sense bone conducted low speech frequencies and a microphone with controlled frequ... | 11/25/1997 |
