Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4926162 | High security communication line monitor A communication line monitor for use in a security or fire detection system of the type including a central alarm station and a communication line. A remote transmitter is coupled to the communication line at the remote end thereof and is assigned one una... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4823122 | Local area network for digital data processing system A local area network for interconnecting terminals and other users and data processing systems and other service providers over a communications link. The users and providers connect to the communications link by means of interface units each of which may... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4754428 | Apparatus and method of distributing documents to remote terminals with different formats A method and apparatus are described for the electronic delivery of a document, originated at a local site by a source which has a printer output that normally is connected to a printer, to one or more remote locations having printers or display devices w... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4658243 | Surveillance control apparatus for security system In a polling type surveillance control apparatus for a security system, inherent addresses are assigned to respective terminal devices such as smoke detectors, temperature sensors, gas leakage detectors, fire partitions and smoke dampers. When a self addr... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4093084 | Freight-transportation system with road/rail transshipment A rail network serving a given territory has a multiplicity of transfer stations for the transshipment of freight containers between local truck routes and scheduled freight trains, as well as between trains traveling to different destinations, each train... | 06/06/1978 |
