The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7245082 | Mode seeding cathode for a relativistic magnetron A high-power relativistic magnetron wherein the cathode geometry is shaped to form a DC electric field that has a non-negligible azimuthal component causing preferential selection of the pi mode at startup (suppression of mode competition), a significant increase in... | 07/17/2007 |
| 4506339 | Method and apparatus for measuring and monitoring the rate of rotation of fast running machines An apparatus for measuring and monitoring the angular velocity of the shaft of a rotating machine. In this apparatus, a plurality of sensors is positioned adjacent the shaft of the rotating machine for generating sequential pulses with periods proportiona... | 03/19/1985 |