Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4067555 | Heat-shaping apparatus This invention relates to apparatus for cutting or shaping material, as by heat-shaping, wherein the outline of a predetermined pattern is copied on the material which is to be worked on by following the pattern with a follower member whose movement is us... | 01/10/1978 |
| 3951273 | Removable attachment for automating milling machines A portable bracket assembly capable of being attached to the spindle carriage of a milling machine. A self-contained indexing table and indexing means is located on the assembly together with a transfer arm having three degrees of freedom and articulated ... | 04/20/1976 |
