...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050012989 | Three-dimensional confocal microscope system The present invention is characterized in that it is possible to provide a three-dimensional confocal microscope system configured so that an objective lens can be scanned in the optical-axis direction using an actuator to obtain sliced confocal images of a sample, wher... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050013478 | Microscope system A CPU executes a process for building an image, which is projected on three planes such as XY, YZ, and XZ planes mutually intersecting in three-dimensional space, of a three-dimensional image obtained by stacking in a direction of an optical axis a plurality of two-dime... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050012994 | Stereoscopic microscope Stereoscopic microscope comprising an optical inverter system (21a, 21b) for erecting a pseudo-stereoscopic image and reversing the viewing beams thereof, wherein the inverter system comprises at least one deflector element (21a... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050012993 | Scanning laser microscope A scanning laser microscope of the present invention comprises at least one laser light source, a plurality of modulating sections for adjusting each laser light emitted from each laser light source, storage section for storing delay time information on an input/output ... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050012991 | Stereoscopic microscope Microscope, especially stereoscopic microscope, with a main objective (2), a magnification system (8, 7) disposed thereafter, and a supplementary optical system (30, 32a) for carrying out intraocular surgery, wherein the supplementary optical... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050012990 | Microscope A well plate holding a specimen to be observed is placed on a fixed stage, and the specimen is observed through an objective lens disposed below the well plate. A well set on the optical axis is illuminated through transmitted illumination provided by a transmitted illu... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050007660 | Optical microscope comprising a displaceable objective An imaging device for microscopic imaging of an object using an objective, which is set up for generating an object image in infinity, and a fixed tube optic, which is set up to generate an intermediate image from the object imaged, are described, the objective being si... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050002092 | Total internal reflection illumination apparatus and microscope using this total internal reflection illumination apparatus A total internal reflection illumination apparatus applied to a microscope which illuminates a sample through an objective having a numerical aperture enabling total internal reflection illumination, comprises a first total internal reflection mirror which is arranged i... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050002091 | Confocal microscope A disk unit for a confocal microscope has a rotary disk having many confocal openings, a rotary drive portion, which rotates the rotary disk, a holding member, which holds the rotary disk and the rotary drive portion, a drive portion, which is allowed to insert into and... | 01/06/2005 |