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 |
| 5548887 | Method of making a transformer core from strips of amorphous steel This method employs a rotatable mandrel having a circular outer peripheral portion comprising a section that is removably held in place within the peripheral portion and has an arcuate outer surface forming a part of said circular outer peripheral portion... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5528817 | Apparatus for making packets of amorphous steel strip for transformer core manufacture This method of making packets of amorphous metal strip adapted to be wrapped about the arbor of a transformer-core-making machine comprises providing first and second composite strips, each comprising many thin layers of amorphous metal strip stacked in s... | 06/25/1996 |
