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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7196600 | Low resistance shield A flat multi-layer arrangement (1; 1a–1f) of superconducting wires (4,5) with normally conducting substrate (17) and at least one fiber (16) which is electrically conductingly connected to the substrate (17) ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7026271 | Chemical pinning centers for high temperature superconductors An oxide superconductor includes a textured superconducting material including an array of defects, where the defects are a compound of two elements foreign to the superconductor, plus other elements native to the superconductor. The two foreign elements include one... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6525002 | Textured high-temperature superconductors An oxide superconductor includes a textured superconducting material including an array of defects with a neutron-fissionable element, or with at least one of the following chemical elements: uranium-238, Nd, Mn, Re, Th, Sm, V, and Ta. The array of defect... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6486393 | Magnetically shielding structure By combining magnetically shielding members of various different properties with each other, a magnetically shielding capability of a magnetically shielding structure is made to improve and a greatly reduced magnetic field, as compared to an external one,... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6153825 | Superconducting current lead A superconducting current lead includes a cylindrical support member 3, and superconducting wire material units 1 each of which is fixed onto the support member and each of which is composed of a single tape-like oxide superconducting wire material or a l... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5612291 | Superconductive device for helping shield magnetic field and manufacturing method therefor A superconductive device for helping shield magnetic field comprises at least two members; a layer containing superconductive oxide over each of said members; means for connecting said members to form a substrate; and means for connecting said layers cont... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5546261 | Superconducting fault current limiter A superconducting fault current limiter composed of an induction coil wound around a core made of a soft magnetic material such as soft iron, ferrite or the like, a cylindrical superconductive body arranged in surrounding relationship with the induction c... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5466885 | Magnetically shielding structure Magnetically shielding structure in which by combining magnetically shielding members of various qualities with each other, its magnetically shielding capability is made to improve, and the greatly lower magnetic field than an externl one can be realized ... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5359149 | Superconductive device for helping shield magnetic field A superconductive device for helping shield magnetic field comprises at least two members; a layer containing superconductive oxide over each of the members; connecting component for connecting the members to form a substrate; and connecting element for c... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5268530 | Superconductive tube for magnetic shielding and manufacturing method therefor A superconductive tube for magnetic shielding has a cylindrical substrate composed of at least two members, an intermediate medium placed upon a surface of the inner and/or the outer wall of the substrate, and a layer containing a superconductive oxide, p... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5258573 | Superconductor magnetic shield A large-area superconductor magnetic shield comprising a plurality of small superconductor unit layers stuck onto the surface of a large-area substrate, wherein the external peripheral sections of the adjacent unit layers are overlapped mutually or the en... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5202305 | Superconducting structure for magnetic shielding The superconducting structure for magnetic shielding according to the present invention comprises at least two layers of a superconducting layer and a substrate. This superconducting structure for magnetic shielding can be formed in a plate-like shape or ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5166777 | Cooling apparatus for superconducting devices using Peltier effect cooling element A superconductive apparatus including a superconductive member to be cooled, a cooling element which exhibits Peltier effect upon supply of electric power thereto such that the superconductive member is thermally coupled with a cooling portion of the cool... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5109312 | Magnetic recording apparatus and magnetic head with superconducting material A magnetic recording apparatus with a magnetic head, superconductive layers formed over at least flux generating surfaces of the magnetic head and normal conductive regions of small size for passing the flux provided in the superconductive layers, over th... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5105667 | Strain measuring device employing magnetostriction and having a magnetic shielding layer In a strain measuring device employing a magnetic permeability detector means to detect an amount of strain in a passive member as changes of magnetic permeability in a magnetostrictive layer, a magnetic shielding layer is formed on the surface of the pas... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5066637 | Gyromagnetic-effect cryogenic gyroscope for detecting angular velocity A cryogenic gyroscope for detecting the angular velocity of a rigid system without reference to an external inertial system comprises a closed rigid casing made of a sueprconducting material and kept below its critical superconducting temperature, for exa... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5061685 | Magnetic shield A magnetic shield which comprises: a plurality of metallic cylinders connected to each other in the axial direction thereof, each of the plurality of cylinders having at one end thereof an engaging section for receiving an end of an adjacent metallic cyli... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5022275 | Strain measuring device employing magnetostriction and having a magnetic shielding layer In a strain measuring device employing a magnetic permeability detector means to detect an amount of strain in a passive member as changes of magnetic permeability in a magnetostrictive layer, a magnetic shielding layer is formed on the surface of the pas... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4912408 | Distance measuring system using superconducting quantum interference device Disclosed is a distance measuring system suitably usable in a semiconductor microcircuit manufacturing lithographic apparatus such as an aligner or a stepper, for measuring the position or the distance of movement of a movable object such as a mask stage ... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4907115 | Super conducting thin-film magnetic head including a magnetoresistive element Thin-film magnetic head including a magnetoresistive element (1) and a face (9) for magnetically coupling the element with a magnetic recording medium. A magnetic yoke constituted by three layers (3, 5, 7) of a magnetically permeable material has a gap (1... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4613820 | RF shielded room for NMR imaging system A radio-frequency shielded room for a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging system has at least one electrically-conductive shield wall substantially enclosing a predetermined volume adjacent to one end of the bore formed through an imaging magnet within whi... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4612505 | Nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus A nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus comprises an electromagnetic system in which a shield of a magnetic material is arranged about the coil system for the homogeneous magnetic field. By providing the magnetic material, for example soft iron, directly a... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4595899 | Magnetic structure for NMR applications and the like Magnetic shielding of a magnet such as a first set of superconducting coils as used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications includes a second set of coils around and spaced from the first set of coils. The magnetic flux of the second set of coils... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4409579 | Superconducting magnetic shielding apparatus and method Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing magnetic shielding around a working volume. The apparatus includes a hollow elongated superconducting shell or cylinder having an elongated low magnetic pinning central portion, and two high magnetic pinni... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4221834 | Superconductive magnetic shield and method of making same A relatively thin superconductive magnetic shield, as of lead, is supported from a hollow support structure, as of aluminum or fiberglass by means of a multiplicity of spots of adhesive, as of epoxy, serving to bond the superconducting shield to the suppo... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4032959 | Shielded superconducting inductor device An inductor device having a superconducting coil winding capable of maintaining a relatively large current flowing therethrough, and a normal conducting shield winding surrounding the superconducting coil. The superconducting coil and the shield are elect... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3976934 | Method and apparatus for the continuous, contactless testing of a long conductor which consists at least partially of superconductive material A method and apparatus for the continuous, contactless testing of a long conductor which consists at least partially of superconductive material in which the conductor is moved, with the superconductive material in the superconducting state, through an ex... | 08/24/1976 |
