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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D649079 | Surface ornamentation for watches and watch dials | 11/22/2011 |
| D635876 | Watch dial | 04/12/2011 |
| D604189 | Front face of an electronic water timer | 11/17/2009 |
| D604190 | Front face of an electronic water timer | 11/17/2009 |
| D588486 | Timepiece face | 03/17/2009 |
| D584182 | Watch dial | 01/06/2009 |
| 7426344 | Electronic apparatus provided with a rotating-operation member and the rotating-operation member An electronic apparatus provided with a plurality of rotating-operation members, in which respective disk sections of the plurality of rotating-operation members are arranged to be at least partially overlapped, to thereby enable it to achieve space-saving. As the e... | 09/16/2008 |
| D542166 | Wrist watch | 05/08/2007 |
| D534824 | Face display for a timepiece | 01/09/2007 |
| D516931 | Clock face | 03/14/2006 |
| D515961 | Clock display | 02/28/2006 |
| D511706 | Surface configuration of an instrument display for a vehicle | 11/22/2005 |
| D496295 | Watch face | 09/21/2004 |
| 6753068 | Decorative plate, and decorative article and timepiece using the same In carving a decorative groove (7) formed in V-shape cross section extending from inside to outside on a dial plate (2) of a timepiece as a decorative plate, the slant angle of an inner slanted side (7A) forming the V-shape of the decorative gro... | 06/22/2004 |
| 5201372 | Wing fold implement with hydraulic mode indicator A gage connected to the rod end of the wing cylinder on a multi-section implement senses rod end pressure at the output of the hydraulic wing control (HWC) valve. The HWC valve is engaged or disengaged using the selective control valve (SCV) in the tracto... | 04/13/1993 |
| 4853908 | Timing mechanism with tide indicator A timing mechanism having a tide indicator including a window in its dial. Under the dial is placed a flat annular wheel fitted with two signs or indicator markings which appear in turn in the window. Around the edge of the window are additional indicator... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4488818 | Watch with an analog display device the dial of which is formed by a liquid crystal display cell A watch display comprises time display hands (3, 4) and a reflecting digital display (5) which acts as dial for the hands, the display being transparent under the effect of an electric field and opaque in the absence of the field.... | 12/18/1984 |
