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...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 |
| 4730270 | Interactive foreign language translating method and apparatus A machine translation system for mechanically translating a first language into a second language which displays series of questions in the first language on a display screen of a display device. A user sequentially answers the questions for the translati... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4706212 | Method using a programmed digital computer system for translation between natural languages A computerized translation method with universal application to all natural languages is provided. With this method, parameters are changed only when source or target languages are changed. The computerized method can be regarded as a self-contained syste... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4635199 | Pivot-type machine translating system comprising a pragmatic table for checking semantic structures, a pivot representation, and a result of translation In a machine translating system wherein word units of a source language are translated to word units of a target language through pivot words of a pivot language, a pragmatic table keeps the pivot words as dominant and dependant pairs together with a rela... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4623985 | Language translator with circuitry for detecting and holding words not stored in dictionary ROM An electronic translator comprises an input device for entering a first word or words, a first memory circuit for storing the first words, a second memory circuit for storing second words equivalent to the first words, an access circuit for addressing the... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4604698 | Electronic translator An electronic translator including character input keys for inputting a first language word, a translator for translating the inputted first language word into the second language word, a retranslator for retranslating the second language word back to the... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4599691 | Tree transformation system in machine translation system A mechanical translation system is provided to obtain a sentence of target language from the tree expression of source language. The processing progresses as follows: First, a pattern which coincides with partial structure, including the highest node, of ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4551818 | Electronic apparatus for translating one language into another An electronic apparatus has a first memory storing therein a plurality of data comprising a first lingual words and a second lingual words corresponding respectively thereto, and a second memory for storing information to freely read out at least one of s... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4542478 | Electronic dictionary and language interpreter of searching and indicating a part of speech and other index information of a specific word A word information storage device is adapted to retrieve symbols for explaining the context of literal forms of translated words in a second language corresponding to a specific word in a first language. The symbols are preliminarily stored in a memory su... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4509137 | Language translator with random generation of test words during learning mode An electronic language interpreter, for enabling that a specific word in a first language be entered to obtain an equivalent translated word in a second language includes a memory specifying circuit for specifying each memory of a plurality of first memor... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4503426 | Visual communication device A visual communication device for displaying combinations of written words which are entered by manipulation of an efficiently organized keyboard. The keyboard has certain keys specifically dedicated to a set of the words recurring most frequently in comm... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4460973 | Electronic translator for marking words or sentences An electronic translator of the type having an input device for inputting words and directing the output of selected words in which a first word or words represented in a first language are retrieved in response to a second word or words represented in a ... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4439836 | Electronic translator An electronic translator comprises a first memory for memorizing a plurality of words represented in a first language, such words comprising one or more first letters which remain unchanged regardless of inflection, and one or more second letters which ma... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4193119 | Apparatus for assisting in the transposition of foreign language text A device is provided for printing a verbal composition in a text form transposed by an operator from the language form in which the source material is presented. Language character forms from different written language formats are encoded and maintained i... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4159536 | Portable electronic language translation device A portable electronic language translation apparatus including a keyboard for receiving operator entered words in one language and a memory such as a programmable read only memory controlled by a microprocessor for comparing and analyzing each letter or g... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4130882 | Language translating apparatus and methods therefor This invention is directed to language translating apparatus and methods therefor which act, under program control, to enable automatic writing systems of the type disclosed herein, to be simply and easily adapted to operate with keyboard input peripheral... | 12/19/1978 |
