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 |
| 5881632 | Automatic cooking apparatus A computerized cooker is described which sequentially enters numerous food items into various cooking pots and introduces liquid ingredients as well. Food is cooked in accordance with a specified computer program.... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5792659 | Terminal emulator enhancer with local configurability A computer terminal is disclosed which allows enhanced local configurability by permitting the user of the terminal to display information received from a remote host in a variety of ways which may be customized by the user without any programming efforts... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5721923 | Apparatus and method of distributing call processing resources A technique for allocating resources in a call processing system is disclosed whereby different levels of resources are allocated depending upon the available headroom in the system. The technique allows advanced and better performing signal processing me... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5619391 | Disc cartridge with opposing sets of crossed ribs directly pressing wiping members into contact with both sides of disc A magnetic disc cartridge includes two sets of opposing ribs arranged on opposite sides of the cartridge so that each rib of one set of ribs is skew with respect to each rib of the other set of ribs. The ribs exert pressure on both sides of a rotating med... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5530961 | Terminal emulator enhancer with local configurability A computer terminal is disclosed which allows enhanced local configurability by permitting the user of the terminal to display information received from a remote host in a variety of ways which may be customized by the user without any programming efforts... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5517745 | Method of producing a fiber optic sign A fiber optic sign and method of making the same are disclosed. A plurality of fibers are arranged to form a design, preferably by a template, and are then bonded together into a block of glue, epoxy, rubber, or other castable liquid. Arrangement of the f... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5506885 | Method of adapting processing parameters in a call processing system A method and apparatus for utilizing DTMF tones and supervisory tones in a call processing system to adjust parameters for future tones and/or speech. The tones initially received are analyzed to determine characteristics such as signal-to-noise ratio, tw... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5499637 | Applicator for hair coloring and the like An improved applicator brush provides a tapered handle portion for lifting and separating hair, and a plurality of bristles emanating perpendicularly therefrom. In one embodiment, the brush is formed by connecting a conventional applicator brush through a... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5469903 | Method of making simulated solid wood slabs and resulting solid wood slab A method of simulating a solid wood multipanel door is disclosed. Predetermined portions of the thin sheets of wood which are typically used to construct hollow core doors are cut away. The portions are used to construct artificial door panels, which are ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5107493 | High-speed packet data network using serially connected packet and circuit switches A cross connect network is utilized in order to switch packets of information among a plurality of network nodes. Each of the plurality of network nodes generates a multiplexed data signal, where each multiplexed data signal includes several channels. The... | 04/21/1992 |
