Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7192754 | -origin ecdysteroid 22-oxidase and molt hormone inactivation system with the use of the same A material and a system are provided that efficiently inactivate a molting hormone by means of a protein having ecdysteroid 22-oxidase activity. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 5899168 | Synthetic diet for rearing the hymenopterous ectoparasitoid, catolaccus grandis An improved artificial diet or growth medium for rearing the insect parasitoid Catolaccus grandis is disclosed. The growth medium is composed of amino acid, mineral, vitamin, lipid, and carbohydrate fractions which are present in amounts and proportions e... | 05/04/1999 |
| 3994259 | Method of making cocoons with a sounding object A manufacturing method in which the life cycle of a silkworm, particularly the cocoon forming stage of the silkworm is utilized to insert a sounding object such as a bell in a cocoon formed by the silkworm and thereby to produce a material which is partic... | 11/30/1976 |
