Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110268922 | BONDED PRODUCT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE THEREFOR Disclosed are a bonded product, and a manufacturing method and manufacturing device therefor. To obtain a bonded product formed of a solidified material of a molten metal which has been poured into a forming mold with a workpiece, all or part of which is already held th... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20100044003 | INSERT MOLDING A method and apparatus involve positioning an insert within a cavity of a mold, heating an insert wall within the cavity of the mold, and casting a molten metal into the cavity adjacent the insert. A surface of the insert absorbs heat from the molten metal to melt and f... | 02/25/2010 |
