Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7372054 | Radiator module Radiation module for thermal or UV irradiation processing procedures with a large number of radiation sources essentially adjacent and parallel to one another for electromagnetic radiation whose main effective range is in the UV spectrum, visible spectrum, and/or ne... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7238920 | Modular bat warming system Disclosed is a baseball and/or softball bat warmer system. Each individual bat heater includes an elongated outer tubular member having a closed bottom surface. An inner tubular member is spaced inwardly from the outer tubular member forming a space therebetween. A ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7077547 | Shuttered lamp assembly and method of cooling the lamp assembly An ultraviolet lamp assembly includes an elongate lamp bulb, a central reflector mounted above the bulb and side reflector panels mounted on opposite sides of the central reflector panel. A first air gap is located between the first side reflector panel and the cent... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7046921 | Radiant heating element reflective bracket with ventilation openings A reflective bracket for a radiant refrigerator defroster includes a channel fabricated from a reflective material and a plurality of ventilation openings through the sides and bottom of the channel. The ventilation openings reduce the operating temperature of the h... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6337466 | Toaster oven with lowered support rack and reflector diffuser An electric toaster oven having a housing, a heating element connected to the housing, a reflector connected to the housing, and an object supporting rack connected to the housing and forming an article receiving area between the rack and the housing for ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 5805856 | Supplemental heating system A heating system includes an electric heater having coupled thereto a temperature controller and a power activation relay switch coupled to the temperature controller and a meter system coupled to a power terminal on the electric heater to provide an inte... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5665258 | Vertical electric-heating oven A vertical electric heating oven is provided which includes an oven body incorporating a shell, a reflecting container, a door, a base, and an electric heater, a driver, a rotary rack, and a vertical rack assembly. The electric heater is located verticall... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5434990 | Method for serially or concurrently addressing n individually addressable memories each having an address latch and data latch A method for reading data from an n-way, set associative cache. n individually addressable memory units are provided, with each of the units storing a plurality of data elements. All n of the units are concurrently addressed to transfer a data element fro... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5218702 | System for selecting request for a resource before decoding of requested resource address and validating selection thereafter An arbitration system and method are provided for arbitrating access to a system resource such as a memory, wherein the address decode and arbitration portions of the arbitration cycle occur simultaneously thereby reducing the overall arbitration cycle ti... | 06/08/1993 |
| 4292500 | Modular, constructional heating unit A modular, constructional heating unit, useful, e.g., for the fabrication of interior partitions, is comprised of a panel member provided with at least one elongate rectilinear cavity, the longitudinal axis of such cavity being parallel to a face surface ... | 09/29/1981 |
