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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| 6473703 | Method for controlling a manufacturing process utilizing control charts with specified confidence intervals The invention discloses methodology for qualitatively extending and exploiting the utility of presently known manufacturing control charts. The method introduces a separate control mechanism comprising establishing confidence intervals to already existing... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6397380 | Computer-program compilers comprising a program augmentation capability A method for optimizing and transforming a compiler program in a computer system. The method comprises the steps of constructing a compiler comprising a program augmentation capability; and, locating this capability in association with phases of a standar... | 05/28/2002 |
