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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120080397 | LATTICE MAST CRANE AND LATTICE MAST BOOM A lattice mast crane having a lattice mast boom which can be luffed up in a vertical luffing plane and which comprises a pivotal connection piece, a plurality of lattice pieces releasably connectable to one another, and a head piece, with the lattice mast boom having a ... | 04/05/2012 |
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| 20100282700 | TELESCOPIC CRANE WITH SELF-MOUNTING BRACING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MOUNTING A BRACING DEVICE The invention relates to a system for bracing a telescopic crane, in particular a mobile crane, with a bracing unit which can be mounted on the jib. The bracing unit comprises erectable bracing supports and a holding frame for securing the bracing unit to the jib. The h... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100252522 | Auxiliary Device For Installing The Lower And Upper Jib Support Of An Adjustable Auxiliary Boom On A Mobile Crane An auxiliary device for equipping the main boom of a mobile crane with an auxiliary boom, wherein a support is mounted near the head of the main boom, by means of which the lifting cable of the main boom may be run to a connection point on the auxiliary boom. The invent... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100213152 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ATTACHING AND REMOVING AN ADDITIONAL DEVICE TO AND FROM THE MAIN JIB OF A MOBILE CRANE The invention relates to a method and to a device for attaching and removing an additional device comprising individual elements to and from the main jib of a mobile crane using no auxiliary crane. In the method according to the invention, a partial piece (2.1) o... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100038333 | Telescopic Crane Boom A telescopic crane boom including a plurality of telescopically assembled tubular box sections including a base box section and an innermost box section having an open cross-section, and a boom head with a frame fixed to the outside circumference of the innermost box se... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20090159547 | BOOM COMPONENT DISPLAY APPARATUS A boom component display apparatus 1 of the present invention is provided with processing units 4, connector assemblies 6 and a display unit 5. The processing units 4 are installed on each of a plurality of unit booms 11a | 06/25/2009 |
| 20080173605 | Lattice piece for a large mobile crane and method of erecting the same This invention relates to a lattice piece for a large mobile crane, comprising four corner posts and null bars and diagonal bars connecting the same. In accordance with the invention, the lattice piece each is divided in two such that one part of the null and diagonal b... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080093321 | BOOM FOOT PIN ATTACHMENT AND DETACHMENT APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE A bifurcated connection portion is formed on one of an upper rotating body and a boom foot, a flat plate connection portion inserted into the bifurcated connection portion is formed on the other, and pin holes are provided in both the connection portions. A boom foot pi... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080069644 | PORTABLE WINCH A portable winch and method of use is shown. One advantage of winches shown includes an ability to lower a boom or boom sections into limited access exit pit for winching operations such as pipe bursting. Sectional boom designs shown provide the ability to easily raise ... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20060118506 | Crane boom for transport as container freight and a transport apparatus for transport of the boom parts of a crane boom of this type The present invention relates to a crane boom for transport as container freight which can be assembled from a plurality of boom parts which each have coupling pieces at the front face end for the putting together of the boom parts, wherein the boom parts each have at l... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20050161422 | Hoisting apparatus for use at a manhole A hoisting apparatus (10) for use at a manhole (1), comprising a supporting mast and a jib crane (14) connected at an angle to an upper end portion (16) of the supporting mast (12). The jib crane (14) has a front member (18 | 07/28/2005 |
