Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7192516 | Desulfurization of petroleum streams using metallic sodium The invention is a method of removing sulfur from a hydrocarbon feed using the steps of dissolving metallic sodium in a solvent and combining the sodium/solvent solution with a liquid hydrocarbon feed containing an organosulfur species. The pressure of combination i... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7167471 | Network processor with single interface supporting tree search engine and CAM A method and system for identifying a data structure associated with a packet of data. A processor internal to a packet processor may extract one or more fields in a packet header field of a received packet of data to generate a search key. The internal processor ma... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158887 | Fluids chain-of-custody A method of assuring the collection of reliable and quality fluid sample includes the steps of acquiring a fluid sample at a point of acquisition, analyzing physical and chemical properties of the fluid sample at the point of acquisition; recording the point of acqu... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7070754 | Ropes of single-wall carbon nanotubes This invention provides a method of making single-wall carbon nanotubes by laser vaporizing a mixture of carbon and one or more Group VIII transition metals. Single-wall carbon nanotubes preferentially form in the vapor and the one or more Group VIII transition meta... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6761870 | Gas-phase nucleation and growth of single-wall carbon nanotubes from high pressure CO The present invention discloses the process of supplying high pressure (e.g., 30 atmospheres) CO that has been preheated (e.g., to about 1000° C.) and a catalyst precursor gas (e.g., Fe(CO)5) in CO that is kept below the catalyst precursor decomposition ... | 07/13/2004 |
| 5871340 | Apparatus for cooling high-pressure boost high gas-fraction twin-screw pumps Apparatuses are described for cooling the rotors of, improving the sealing of, and improving the power efficiency of twin-screw pumps. Such methods include (1) injecting liquid onto the rotor and into the rotor chambers at the point of greatest temperatur... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5731079 | Diamond cutting tools Single hard particles or single point cutting tools having the particles bonded thereto are coated with a modulated or layered composition of transition metal compounds or with titanium compounds to decrease mechanical failure of the particles. Titanium a... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5652083 | Methods for fabricating flat panel display systems and components A method is provided for fabricating a display cathode which includes forming a conductive line adjacent a face of a substrate. A region of amorphic diamond is formed adjacent a selected portion of the conductive line.... | 07/29/1997 |
