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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6517474 | Method for making a miniature kite 13A miniature, highly decorative kite that flies indoors or outdoors is made by cutting a small piece of tissue paper into any preselected shape, including the shape of a standard diamond-shaped kite. Very finely cut bamboo sticks serve as the frame of th... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6059708 | Method of making a foldable pinata An innovative method of making pinatas utilizes pre-cut and scored cardstock designed with tab and slot closures. Once the shapes are folded and secured, the pinatas can be decorated using traditional or innovative methods. By designing the tab/slot closu... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5807226 | Foldable die cut cards A foldable card and method of making has multiple panels connected by fold lines which are placed laterally inward from free peripheral edges of end panels such that the card can be die cut in a folded configuration around an entire periphery of the card ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5725469 | Toy for decorating articles A tool for providing cup-shaped, three-dimensional ornamentations for various items, such as, pictures, jewelry, or three-dimensional objects. The various tool embodiments include a power- or manually-driven plunger that engages a section of deformable ma... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5676988 | U.F.O. pop The U.F.O. Pop consists of a sucker-type candy with a candy stick inserted into an aperture at the top of a clear plastic upper housing. The clear plastic upper housing is connected to the plastic lower housing with a toy creature inside. The top of the p... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5662508 | Toy building blocks A toy building block is constructed by folding an integral paperboard blank. The toy building block includes locking tabs and complementary-shaped openings, with the tabs of one toy building block received in the openings of another toy building block.... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5630781 | Paper airplane folding device The present invention relates to a device for folding a sheet of paper into an aerodynamic configuration. The device can be described as a forming implement with a plurality of wing and tail folding surfaces. The device includes an entrance end and an exi... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5492584 | Method for making a pleated ornament A decoration is formed by feeding a flat sheet of material between a pair of rotating rollers having intermeshed teeth which produce a series of pleats in the sheet. The pleats are gathered together by placing the pleated sheet between a pair of parallel,... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5162010 | Cardboard toy A cardboard toy or the like formed from a pattern in-the-flat and method. The pattern includes a plurality of panels each defined by a combination of straight fold lines and edges. Adjacent and parallel to each edge is an elongated slot defining a flap or... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5151078 | Method for folding pieces of paper into letters of the alphabet A method for folding paper into letters of the alphabet. The method has defining a rectangular piece of paper with an X-axis paralel to a width thereof and a Y-axis parallel to a length thereof, folding the piece of paper into the shape of an alphabetic l... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5112290 | Pop-out slide and method of making same A pop-out slide and a method of fabricating the same from a single continuous web of material. The method comprises cutting a web of material to define a through slot and a cutout, such that the cutout in turn defines a pop-out member superimposable with ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4779401 | Arrangement for manufacturing and packaging cards, especially playing cards A manufacturing and packaging arrangement for cards, especially playing cards, includes a sheet cutting and card stacking station, two corner punching stations, and a packaging stations which are connected with one another by a conveyor arrangement that i... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4551127 | Toy structural member roller A toy for rolling flexible material into structural members which may be assembled into any of a number of desired structures. The apparatus includes a base having bearing means formed on either end to support a tube assembly over which structural members... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4508526 | 3-D Glasses and method for producing same A plurality of 3-D glasses are produced by cutting a sheet of material to provide first and second parallel series of eyeglass cutouts therein, each of the series of eyeglass cutouts including first and second eye cutouts, first and second ear cutouts and... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4468020 | Method and apparatus for producing pop-up booklets A booklet containing an integral pop-up is formed from a continuous web of paper in an in-line process on a single apparatus.... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4429486 | Construction and method for models with interlocking tab/slot assembly A construction set for model houses and other enclosures formed of cooperating components of cardboard or similar material is disclosed wherein a combination of cooperating tabs and slots that interlock are provided on the components to produce simple and... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4366961 | Method and apparatus for constructing pyramid Apparatus for constructing a pyramid. The apparatus comprises a circular piece of material having a circular front face; a circular back face; and a plurality of fold lines formed on at least one of the faces. The fold lines include diameter lines each tr... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4329808 | Paper-airplane-making and launching device A tubular member holds a paper, tubular fuselage above a paper wing supported by a plate and below a folding die from which a fuselage presser depends; whereby the fuselage may be attached to the wing and the edges of the wing may be folded into an aerody... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4327516 | Foldable structure A manipulatable structure that contains a series of linked units. Each unit contains a plurality of rhombic-shaped panels that are hinged along their oblique edges to create a collapsible enclosure that can be used to create two dimensional patterns when ... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4290763 | Method for producing enclosed multipaneled envelopes A method for producing an enclosed, multipaneled envelope from webs of material in a manner such that the desired multipaneled shape of the envelope can be formed by a single peripheral application of a platen sealing device to positioned webs comprising ... | 09/22/1981 |
