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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| 7449060 | Low dust wall repair compound A wall repair compound useful for filling and repairing cracks, holes, and other imperfections in a wall surface includes a conventional filler material, a conventional binder material, and a dust reducing additive which reduces the quantity of airborne dust particl... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7204658 | Light-accumulating luminous road marking material and road structure A photoluminescence road marking material which is useful for a marking of a lane of a road, has a high photoluminescence performance along with a required wear resistance and weather resistance, can find an application not only in a white line, but also various typ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 5340392 | Method and product of calcium sulfate dihydrate as filler in aqueous polymer dispersions This invention relates to a method and composition for the incorporation of gypsum as a filler material in aqueous polymer dispersions by means of the addition of a detergent selected from the group consisting of ammonium lauryl sulfate, sodium lauryl sul... | 08/23/1994 |
| 4375987 | Additive combination for hydraulic cement compositions The low temperature stability of an additive product for imparting desirable properties such as water repellency, set-retardation, etc., to hydraulic cement compositions and Portland masonry cements in particular, is improved by the addition of a small am... | 03/08/1983 |
