...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7865335 | System and methods for integrating authoring with complexity analysis for computing system operation procedures Techniques are disclosed for integrating complexity analysis with procedure authoring (design and/or documentation). By way of example, a technique for authoring a procedure associated with a computing system operation based on a complexity analysis associated with ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7565272 | System and methods for integrating authoring with complexity analysis for computing system operation procedures Techniques are disclosed for integrating complexity analysis with procedure authoring (design and/or documentation). By way of example, a technique for authoring a procedure associated with a computing system operation based on a complexity analysis associated with ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7030889 | Data display system, data display method, computer and computer program product According to the data display method of the present invention, one or more parts of the data to be displayed in a display area are displayed in full, while the other parts of the data are displayed in predetermined abridged forms representing the parts of data that ... | 04/18/2006 |