Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20090173589 | System and Method for Generating Electricity from Automobile Traffic A system and method for generating electricity from the movement of vehicles over a traveling surface is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a stator having a plurality of windings, a rotor configured to rotate and configured to be mounted adjacent the trav... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090166142 | TUNNEL TYPE POWER GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING POWER USING THE SAME Provided are a tunnel type power generating apparatus and a method of generating power using the same capable of converting residual kinetic energy caused by movement of vehicles into electric energy and storing the converted electric energy to be used. The tunnel type ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090101419 | VEHICLE CONTROLLER There is provided a vehicle controller that is mounted in a box-shaped manner beneath the floor or on the roof of a vehicle so as to supply electric power to vehicle apparatuses. The vehicle controller is configured with a plurality of functional modules 4; each ... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20070000744 | Monitoring system for electrical vehicles drawing current from conductors A current collector comprises one or more Fibre Bragg Grating sensors mounted on or in the current collector. Such collector can be used in a system in which:—i) detector means in the collector indicates a current collector condition and/or damage signal at a predeter... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060283681 | Groove follower for a shift drum of a multi-step transmission A groove follower (70; 90) for cooperating with a shift groove (48) of a shift drum (44) of a multi-step transmission for a motor vehicle, the groove follower (70; 90) having a vertical crowning and a longitudinal crowning, and the shift groo... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060060441 | Hybrid vehicle slip prevention apparatus A vehicle slip stop device which can always and reliably prevent slip of the vehicle. It includes a plurality of different types of slip stop means for increasing the frictional resistance relative to the road surface, i.e. first slip stop means 1 for scattering ... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20050082133 | Rail based electric power distribution network A train including a multi-phase electrical distribution network permitting easy detection and location of ground faults, and a method of detecting a ground fault on such a train are disclosed. Net current tapped at each of the cars is sensed. In the event the net curren... | 04/21/2005 |
