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Napoleon Bonaparte ; When told of the Robert Fulton steamboat
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8138875 | Inductively powered apparatus An inductive power supply system for providing power to one or more inductively powered devices. The system includes a mechanism for varying the physical distance or the respective orientation between the primary coil and secondary coil to control the amount of powe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7639110 | Inductively powered apparatus An inductive power supply system for providing power to one or more inductively powered devices. The system includes a mechanism for varying the physical distance or the respective orientation between the primary coil and secondary coil to control the amount of powe... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7336157 | Illuminated wind indicator An illuminated wind indicator that provides visual indication of wind motion even at night. One or more chime members and a pendulum assembly are suspended from a support or housing, and arranged so that the chime members and the pendulum assembly are capable of col... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7233222 | Inductively powered apparatus An inductive power supply system for providing power to one or more inductively powered devices. The system includes a mechanism for varying the physical distance or the respective orientation between the primary coil and secondary coil to control the amount of powe... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7126450 | Inductively powered apparatus An inductive power supply system for providing power to one or more inductively powered devices. The system includes a mechanism for varying the physical distance or the respective orientation between the primary coil and secondary coil to control the amount of powe... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6831542 | Micro-electromechanical inductive switch A micro-electro mechanical (MEM) switch capable of inductively coupling and decoupling electrical signals is described. The inductive MEM switch consists of a first plurality of coils on a movable platform and a second plurality of coils on a stationary platform or ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6512437 | Isolation transformer An isolation transformer is provided having primary and secondary cores (2, 4) and primary and secondary coils (3, 5) with the primary coil and the secondary coil being disposed with a gap G provided therebetween. Each of the primary coil and the secondar... | 01/28/2003 |
| 4754180 | Forceless non-contacting power transformer A transformer for coupling electrical power from a stationary location to a moving location with a minimum of disturbance forces between the stationary and moveable components. The transformer is particularly adapted to coupling power to a magnetically su... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4455555 | Control transducer An inductive displacement transducer includes a primary and at least two secondary coils with a movable coupling member for varying the amount of mutual coupling therebetween as a function of the displacement of a movable member. The secondary coils are w... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4223300 | Electro mechanical position indicator using relatively moveable coils An electromechanical positioner indicator is provided which comprises first and second relatively movable parts, the first part including two oppositely facing surfaces which are everywhere equidistant and the second part including two surfaces which are ... | 09/16/1980 |