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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100291525 | Moon Gazers' Wheel Chart An educational field chart used for observing the Moon. The two-piece chart has an indicator wheel joined with a background chart that depicts the Sun, Earth and the Moon in orbit. The pieces rotate to locate a moon phase illustration that matches the Moon in the sky. O... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100124735 | HAND-HELD PERSONAL PLANETARIUM Method and apparatus are provided for a hand-held planetarium which displays a sky pattern comprising graphical representations of one or more celestial objects. A sensing system comprising one or more sensors provides information about an orientation of the device. A c... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20080261190 | APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS FOR THE CONTROLLED ILLUMINATION OF A CONVEX SURFACE Illumination provided to the interior of a convex surface can be controlled using a plurality of internal barriers separating light sources such as light emitting diodes. Such controlled illumination can simulate phases of the moon using logic which can be limited to ye... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080131856 | Capturing apparatus with a star observing function and a star observing method A capturing apparatus with a star observing function and a star observing method is disclosed. The user obtains a constellation photo from the constellation database by using the satellite time and the longitude and the latitude information at which the user is using th... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20070117078 | Celestial compass A celestial compass. The celestial compass includes a camera with a wide angle lens suitable for viewing a large portion of the sky and a many-pixel sensor for collecting images of celestial objects such as stars, planets, the moon and the sun. The compass also includes... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20050250086 | METHOD OF MODELING GRAVIMETRIC FLOW AND PLOTTING LAGRANGE POINTS A method of creating a model of gravimetric flow around two, three and four dimensional representations of masses such as celestial bodies having overlapping gravity fields and plotting the Lagrange points at the correct positions in space between the bodies includes th... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050250085 | Viewing and display apparatus A celestial object location and identification device. ... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050118559 | Posteinstein-bohr definitive end and development of new physics with consequences as superaccelerators and direct electricity transformation into light After spectacular End of classical genial Einstein-Bohr Physics (PCT/IB00/00843, Exemplary Search: “PCT Gazette” April 2001), this development of New Physics (combined PCTIFR0211308; /2583; 12709) crushes definitively ridiculous Construction of Humanity Impass for c... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050089833 | Educational globe-like structure for teaching colors The invention provides an educational globe-like structure for teaching colors and the relationship between different colors, the globe-like structure being arranged to display the interrelationship between colors simultaneously in both longitudinal and latitudinal dire... | 04/28/2005 |
