Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6369650 | Impedance synthesis and DC biasing method and architecture for DSL/cable line drivers A low noise, low distortion, power efficient DSL/cable line driver has a double Wheatstone impedance bridge network that functions to prevent contamination of DSL signals that are received by and transmitted from the line driver. The line driver employs a... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6154497 | Method and system for analog to digital conversion A conversion (20, 120, 220) system for converting an analog signal (18, 118, 218) to a digital signal (54, 154, 254) in a communications system (10), the conversion system (20, 120, 220) including an oversampled analog-to-digital converter modulator (24, ... | 11/28/2000 |
