Did You Know...
...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3965610 | Construction units, some with corresponding pinion wheels mounted in meshed relation A toy comprising a base and means on the base rotatably mounting a plurality of pinion wheels in interengaging relationship one with another so that different patterns of the pinion wheels may be created.... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3958386 | Building structural system A building structural system having a plurality of preformed elongate structural elements each with a plurality of angularly-related planar surfaces and provided with integral fastener-receiving and locking devices and a plurality of connecting members fo... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3953948 | Homohedral construction employing icosahedron Homohedral construction is a building and truss system based on the regular icosahedron. It is analogous to the standard building or truss system based on the cube, which is characterized by 90° corners and edges on its struts and planar surfaces.... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3950888 | Homohedral module The module is a geometric toy block that is designed to imitate the icosahedron's unique ability for three-dimensional intersection with another icosahedron so that a pentangular co-planar line segment that defines the convex pentangular co-planar edge on... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3940877 | Construction toy having stuffed parts of soft materials A stuffed toy designed to simulate a composite real-world object having a number of constituent parts. Each part is formed as a separate element of cloth enclosing a resilient stuffing material. At least one of the elements has a plurality of loops affixe... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3939581 | Organic molecular model assembly A color coded molecular model assembly kit is provided for representing organic molecular structures and shapes comprising two basic and complementary construction units capable of being interlocked. The first basic construction units are color coded plas... | 02/24/1976 |
