Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090293938 | PHOTO CELL WITH SPACED ANTI-OXIDATION MEMBER ON FLUID LOOP A fluid tube routes a fluid adjacent to a source of heat to heat the fluid. The heated fluid is passed adjacent to cells which receive infrared radiation from the heated fluid. An anti-corrosion member is positioned on a portion of the tube adjacent to the cells. The an... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20070131267 | Device for converting thermal energy into electrical energy A current source and method of producing the current source are provided. The current source includes a metal source, a buffer layer, a filter and a collector. An electrical connection is provided to the metal layer and semiconductor layer and a magnetic field applier m... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20060185153 | Method of making crystalline to surround a nuclear-core of a nuclear-cored battery A method of manufacturing a crystalline that is a ceramic phosphor material having a structural defect such that the ceramic material within the ceramic phosphor material is used to shield and absorb the radiation emitted by a nuclear core while the phosphors are excite... | 08/24/2006 |
