Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| 6450997 | Absorbent articles having a bellows for circulating fresh air An absorbent article having a repeatably deformable bellows to force airflow through the absorbent article. The bellows expands and contracts, utilizing biomechanical motion of the wearer to draw air into a bellows chamber at one end and to expel the air ... | 09/17/2002 |
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