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...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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| 20050071784 | Successively displaying panels in a computer user interface Successively displaying panels in a computer user interface. A method includes displaying a first panel of a plurality of panels. Each of the panels includes different information. The computer user interface has a plurality of navigation controls by which a user can na... | 03/31/2005 |
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| 20050050471 | Methods of displaying resources of overlapping but separate hierarchies A method of using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to display relationships amongst resources of a system can include illustrating at least two overlapping but separate hierarchies in the same mosaic-like graphic, each hierarchy representing one or more of the relations... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050044505 | Creating an opaque graphical user interface window when a display unit is in an off state According to some embodiments, an opaque graphical user interface window is created when a display unit is in an off state. ... | 02/24/2005 |
