...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6067580 | Integrating distributed computing environment remote procedure calls with an advisory work load manager Distributed computing environment (DCE) remote procedure calls (RPCs) are integrated with an advisory work load manager (WLM) to provide a way to intelligently dispatch RPC requests among the available application server processes. The routing decisions a... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5889654 | Advanced chip packaging structure for memory card applications Integrated circuit chips (18, 42, or 56) are packaged within openings formed in a substrate such as PCMCIA Card (20, 40, or 54), thus allowing compliance with overall width dimension requirements for standardized electronic components. The arrangement has... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5889321 | Stiffeners with improved adhesion to flexible substrates A stiffener (34 or 52 or 72) includes a pathway which allows gases and fluids, such as air, to be vented from the interface between surface bonding regions (35 or 60 or 74) of the stiffener and an adhesive (38 or 56 or 80) on a flexible substrate (36 or 5... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5881308 | Computer organization for multiple and out-of-order execution of condition code testing and setting instructions out-of-order Computer system with multiple, out-of-order, instruction issuing system suitable for superscalar processors with a RISC organization, also has a Fast Dispatch Stack (FDS), a dynamic instruction scheduling system that may issue multiple, out-of-order, inst... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5875464 | Computer system with private and shared partitions in cache The traditional computer system is modified by providing, in addition to a processor unit, a main memory and a cache memory buffer, remapping logic for remapping the cache memory buffer, and a plurality of registers for containing remapping information. W... | 02/23/1999 |