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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5636927 | Method and apparatus for thermally printing on linerless media without a platen roller/surface A method of printing on a print face of a linerless media with the printing face of a printhead without a platen member opposite the printing face. The method comprises the steps of, guiding the print face of the media to a point close adjacent and slight... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5413529 | Multi-component housing A multi-compartment outer housing, positioned in an ambient fluid having an ambient pressure P, has a compressor developed fluid flow through the outer housing compartments. A multi-chamber inner housing is positioned in a housing compartment having a flu... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5157462 | Split-gain multimode ring laser gyroscope output optics detection system A rotational sensing system for a split gain, multi-mode ring laser gyroscope is disclosed herein that can operate with a simple upright symmetric optics mechanism, where the required signal separation is performed fully electronically. In a preferred emb... | 10/20/1992 |
| 4960331 | Faraday rotator assembly Disclosed herein in a side mounted aperture and a Faraday rotator assembly useful in conjunction with an out-of-plane multi-oscillator ring laser gyroscope. The aperture and Faraday rotator assemblies contain components which are optically contacted to on... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4884283 | Ring laser gyroscope mirror orientation system and method A method and system of ring laser gyroscope mirror orientation is disclosed which provides minimal backscatter within the closed optical pathway as a result of analysis and manipulation of the speckle pattern associated with each of the mirrors defining t... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4423700 | Apparatus for coating plastic pipe In certain composite plastic pipe manufacturing operations it is necessary to provide an adhesive coating between the core pipe and the fiber glass reinforced layer, especially if the core pipe is a thermoplastic and the fiber glass reinforced material is... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4398726 | Pipe section including a gasketed spigot end and method of making the same Certain pipe sections require an annular sealing gasket to be permanently positioned on the spigot portion. This is especially desirable with pipe sections formed with helically preceding reinforcing ribs. Disclosed is pipe section including a spigot end ... | 08/16/1983 |
