Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7340889 | Method and apparatus for treating exhaust gases from combustion sources A method and apparatus for removing contaminant emissions from the exhaust stream of a combustion device, comprising increasing the dew point of the exhaust gases; reducing the velocity of the exhaust stream; reducing the temperature of the exhaust stream such that ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 6102990 | Multistep gas scrubber apparatus A multiphase scrubber for the wet scrubbing of gases in several different phases comprises at least three separate basic scrubbing units so that the scrubbing of the gas is carried out in at least three, advantageously six, successive steps. The droplet s... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5178653 | Multigas scrubber The invention relates to an appparatus where the wet scrubbing of several different gas flows is carried out in at least three scrubbing towers, and the droplet separation of scurbbed gases takes place in a cyclonic, uniform droplet separator constructed ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 4943007 | Spray generators A spray generator for producing a spray of liquid droplets of a narrow size spectrum in which a substantially uniform cyclic disturbance is imposed on fluid energing at a nozzle. Such a disturbance can be produced by a fluidic bistable oscillator or by al... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4152126 | Equipment for removing dust particles from an air stream Apparatus for removing dust particles from an air stream includes a tubular housing having an inlet end and an outlet end; a plurality of Venturi tubes having open inflow ends and open outflow ends supported side-by-side within the housing, with their axe... | 05/01/1979 |
