...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6995091 | Process for chemically mechanically polishing wafers The invention relates to a process for chemically mechanically polishing and grinding wafers. The CMP slurry that is used for grinding is analyzed using slurry atomic absorption spectroscopy. This allows rapid and sensitive analysis of the slurry constituents, in pa... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6844553 | Absorption spectroscopy apparatus and method An absorption spectroscopy apparatus having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The apparatus includes a sample cell including an axis, a side wall having at least one curved reflective surface arrayed about the axis and facing inwardly with respect to the cell such t... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6686999 | Method of using an aerosol to calibrate spectrometers Using a nebulizer gas, sub micron and micron size particulates can be generated from a solution containing salts covering a broad range of elements. The fractional concentration of elements can be determined by bubbling the aerosol through aqueous acid an... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6361956 | Biospecific, two photon excitation, fluorescence detection and device A method for measuring the end point and for monitoring the real time kinetics of a bioaffinity reaction in biological fluids and suspensions, employing microparticles as bioaffinity binding solid phase, biospecific reagent labelled with a fluorescent lab... | 03/26/2002 |