Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| 5276797 | Dynamically extending selection choices An extended selection field for use in selecting one or more choices from a list on an information system display. The extended selection field exhibits the behavior and appearance of a standard single choice field, with the additional capability to switc... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5261045 | Method of exchanging entries from a plurality of different electronic calendars based on interactively entered criteria A method of exchanging date and time slot usage between calendar users. A date and time map structure is configured in a common way to allow the accessing of the map information using an algorithm and then responding to the provided information. The respo... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5122972 | Help provision in a data processing system Help is provided to the user of a data processing system having a work station, including a display, and input means including a visible on-screen indicator and a selection means, in response to a request from the user, information on the current state of... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5060146 | Multilingual indexing system for alphabetical lysorting by comparing character weights and ASCII codes A sorting technique which relies on the operating system collating weights of characters to the extent that a collating weight difference exists in any of the pairs of corresponding characters of two different strings of characters being compared. While t... | 10/22/1991 |
