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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7112120 | Feeder assembly for particle blast system A particle blast system includes a feeder assembly having a rotor with a plurality of pockets formed in the peripheral surface. The transport gas flowpath includes the pockets, such that substantially all transport gas flows through the pockets. The seal adjacent th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7065940 | Product delivery system A product delivery system is provided wherein consumer products are delivered in bulk to the retail site and can be dispensed to individual containers at the retail site. The consumer products can include products in concentrated form that may be diluted prior to di... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6685029 | Bedding separator A tool designed for separating manure, loose hay and wet bedding from the stall of an animal. The tool comprises a rectangular frame supporting a plurality of spaced parallel rods. The rods extend downwardly at an angle from a wall of the stall such that ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6401937 | Apparatus and method to separate corrugated paper from commingled waste An apparatus and method for separating recyclable corrugated paper from a stream of commingled waste. Commingled waste is loaded onto a conveyor with two alternating sets of jogger beams. A motor drives the jogger beams out of phase with respect to one an... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6220452 | Table tennis ball-sorting device and table tennis apparatus In a table tennis ball-sorting device, a plurality of rails are disposed side by side in substantially a horizontal direction along the side of at least one playing surface of a table tennis table at intervals that are capable of having passed therethroug... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6112906 | Ball separator system This invention is directed to a device for separating deformed balls from normal spherical balls prior to washing as is common in the ball pen industry. The device comprises an L-shaped tunnel which defines a slot on its lower surface. The slot feeds into... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5927513 | Apparatus for recovering reusable wood shavings from animal stalls A portable shaker frame that is particularly adapted for separating irregularly-shaped wood shavings used in animal stalls as bedding materials from manure contained in the bedding material. The wood shavings are recovered for reuse and the manure is sepa... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5685435 | Method and apparatus for automatic bulk vending An automatic bulk vending machine is described including specific details as to various aspects of accurate volumetric dispensing, the separation of small broken pieces or fines from the dispensed product, and the easy and sanitary loading of such a machi... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5609173 | Device for prewashing and sorting golf balls A prewasher for sorting and soaking golf balls prior to entry into a ball washer has a tub for receiving the balls, a standpipe in the tub through which a stream of water moves the balls up out of the tub to deposit them in a track that carries only round... | 03/11/1997 |
| 4997566 | Inclined static filter for separating solids from liquids A structure placed in a stream of liquids, carrying undissolved solids, that separates the solids from the liquid and disposes of the solids. Two channels or conduits for carrying the liquid are positioned at different elevations and the structure is angu... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4933074 | Article singulating system and method Elongated articles (16) to be singulated are conveyed in bulk into a conveyor (30) which by a shaking motion conveys the articles (16). The bed (80) of the conveyor (30) includes longitudinal channels (100) causing the articles (16) to be aligned lengthwi... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4822106 | Golf ball dredge A golf ball dredge which comprises a shallow draft, buoyant support vessel in the form of a pontoon boat that provides a floating platform from which the dredging apparatus is supported. The pontoon boat has a small outboard motor mounted at its bow for p... | 04/18/1989 |
