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 |
| 4052737 | Method and apparatus utilizing Baudot code for categorizing and selectively distributing information to a plurality of utilization units Disclosed is a method and apparatus for selectively distributing on a multiple channel television system information previously transmitted and received in the Baudot code. The transmitted information is encoded into a sequence of Baudot characters to inc... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4028695 | Data terminals having interactive keyboards and displays and data processing apparatus incorporating such terminals The data terminal is manually operable and is intended for communicating with a data processor. The terminal has a keyboard having a plurality of manually selectable keys, each of which represents a respective message to be communicated to the processor. ... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4026555 | Television display control apparatus Keyboard-controlled apparatus for producing video signals for standard television receivers includes a random access memory having a multiplicity of storage positions each of which corresponds to a preselected discrete portion of the TV raster. Data store... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4025899 | Circuit arrangement for data input and output in data processing devices A circuit arrangement for data processing devices including an input keyboard with keyboard contacts disposed at the points of intersection of a conductor matrix and a multiposition data output device. The data is fed into the data processing device in su... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4016542 | Electronic notebook for use in data gathering, formatting and transmitting system A data gathering and transmitting system includes a portable data gathering device having a keyboard and an input/output connector, each operable for entering data into, and for providing access to data previously entered into, a random access memory. Dat... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4016365 | Readout for recording typewriter A recording typewriter of the type including a memory arranged to record codes corresponding to typed characters as they are typed, and to drive the typewriter to type characters corresponding to stored codes. A single line readout is provided, preferably... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4007443 | Hand-held interactive terminal An interactive terminal which is capable of complete hand-held operation with total freedom of position and location is provided. The terminal incorporates a self contained full 128-character keyboard, a 20-character alphanumeric readout, and a 1000-chara... | 02/08/1977 |
| 3999179 | Display panel for running characters with optical phase shift A display terminal comprises a running or scanning character display together with a keyboard. The display may comprise a gas panel having a plurality of orthogonal conductors disposed in a gas filled envelope, the intersection of these conductors definin... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3984638 | Processor for use between keyboard telephone set and television set Processor for use between an earpiece of a keyboard telephone set serving to interrogate a computer by means of multi-frequency code interrogation signals and to receive from said computer digital serial answer words beginning with a start signal and freq... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3974493 | Cursor find system for the display of a word processing system In a keyboard entry word processing system, text is stored in a recirculating refresh memory along with a carriage return code at the end of each line. The text is displayed on a CRT screen. A cursor symbol, also displayed on the screen, may be moved by k... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3974496 | Data entry systems This invention relates to the presentation of at least two different sets of information to an observer simultaneously and in the same location, one superposed upon the other, one set of information concerning characters inscribed on a source carrier or d... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3974497 | Display device The present invention relates to display devices used as terminal devices for an electronic computer or the like, and more particularly to digital displays in a specific display region on a display device having character display functions. In digital dis... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3962698 | Visual display and remote control panel system A remote control and display panel system suitable for eating establishments, for example, wherein the orders as to item and quantity per item, for a succession of customers, may be fed into a composite memory system and displayed on the display panel so ... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3962700 | Alphanumeric gas display panel with modular control A modular control system is provided for a gas panel of the type having an array of row wires and column wires that form light emitting cells at their crossover points. A row counter and a column counter provide selection signals for entering characters s... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3956745 | Programmable keyboard arrangements A programmable keyboard of the kind in which a member presents a plurality of discrete areas to a co-operating probe, each of which areas produces a unique signal when addressed by the probe, is provided with a liquid crystal display to identify the curre... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3953846 | Encoding device A keyboard-operated encoding device for use in translating an alphabetic word into an alpha-numeric code in which the word or name is divided into phonic sounds, and assigned a digital number in accordance with a pre-established pattern classifying the ph... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3943505 | Automatic information system for the organization of gymnastic competitions An automatic information system applicable in the organization of gymnastic competitions is intended to collect and process the individual scores awarded by the judges to each competitor, to facilitate and accelerate the judging procedure, to keep the rec... | 03/09/1976 |
