Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 20080105133 | SPEED COOKING OVEN WITH IMPROVED RADIANT MODE A speed cooking with improved gas flow by-pass mechanism for radiant cooking mode. A speed cooking oven with radiant mode is disclosed comprising a cooking cavity, a controller, thermal heating source, blower assembly, air directing means, a vent assembly and a single d... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080105135 | SPEED COOKING OVEN WITH SLOPED OVEN FLOOR AND REVERSING GAS FLOW A speed cooking oven with sloped oven floor and reversing gas flow is disclosed comprising a cooking cavity, a controller, thermal heating source, blower assembly, air directing means, and a sloped oven floor that directs air flow from the oven side walls to oven center... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080066624 | SOUS VIDE COOKER WITH INTEGRATED IMMERSION CIRCULATOR A sous vide cooking appliance which holds the cooking liquid and vacuum packed food, circulates the liquid, heats the liquid, and regulates the temperature of the liquid. ... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080060528 | FRYER FILTRATION ARRANGEMENT A fryer filtration arrangement utilizes certain automated components. ... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080063768 | QUICK CHILLING OF FRY OIL UNDER MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE Systems and methods improve the useful life of fry oil by inhibiting or eliminating factors that degrade the oil. A flow of gas in contact with the oil provides efficient cooling of the oil that was heated but is for a temporary period of time not needed to be kept hot.... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080060527 | Apparatus for Rapid Cooking of Edible Pasta A machine for rapid cooking of pasta includes: a measuring device (A) to deliver a predetermined amount of pasta and insert it into a steam cooking chamber (B) equipped with an inlet and an outlet ball valves (40, 28) placed respectively at its upper and lower en... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20070272675 | Oven and Its Communication with a Steam Module The invention relates to an oven (1) comprising a preparation space and a device for heating the content thereof, and further provided with means for releasably connecting steam module (18) to the heating device. In this way a convection oven may be conver... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20060185522 | High temperature, oil saving, rapid cook fryer system A deep fat fryer able to quickly cook food items, in about one-third to one-half of a typical cook time in the art for corresponding food items, includes a high powered, preferably high efficiency heating unit utilized to establish a cooking oil temperature in the order... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060032381 | Fully automatic rice cooker The present invention is made for the purpose of providing a full automatic rice cooking apparatus that can automatically carry out all of the steps from rice measuring to rice boiling and further washing of a rice kettle after use. This purpose is achieved by an automa... | 02/16/2006 |
