Did You Know...
...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6565895 | Bismuth compounds for the treatment and prevention of mucositis The invention relates to the unexpected discovery that bismuth-containing compounds are effective in the treatment of oral mucositis in a mammal. Thus, the invention relates, in one aspect to a method of treating oral mucositis comprising administering an... | 05/20/2003 |
| 5946711 | System for locking data in a shared cache In a multi-threaded computing system, a locking system is utilized to cooperatively manage a shared cache between a plurality of user threads and a paging manager thread. To manage the locks, the paging manager maintains pointers between a process memory ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5666297 | Plant simulation and optimization software apparatus and method using dual execution models A software system simulates and optimizes a processing plant design. The software system includes a plurality of equipment models for simulating each piece of equipment in the processing plant design. A sequential modular simulation routine executes the e... | 09/09/1997 |
