Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5638756 | Rope traction device A rope traction device includes a sheave having an annular rope receiving groove and being driven and rotated with a traction rope received in the rope receiving groove to cause the traction rope to be wound on the sheave and the rope traction device ther... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5626081 | Rope traction device A rope traction device includes a sheave having an annular rope receiving groove and being driven and rotated with a traction rope received in the rope receiving groove to cause the traction rope to be wound on the sheave and the rope traction device ther... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5172640 | Overhead cable transport installation having two successive sections The hauling-carrier cable of a gondola lift or chair lift is subdivided in two endless cable loops operating together. These cable loops are linked by a technical relay including two bull wheels or a bull wheel with two grooves, one for each cable loop. T... | 12/22/1992 |
| 4671184 | System for propelling two-wheeled golf carts along a track A golf cart propelling system includes a rail formed by a plurality of channel members, each having a U-shaped cross section defined by spaced side walls joined at lower ends thereof by a bottom wall. The side walls have at upper ends thereof flanges exte... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4608930 | Cableway with transport path having one or more lateral inflection points A cableway-type transportation system has an endless cable looped under tension about two reversing pulleys between which its two substantially parallel runs are supported by sustaining rollers yieldably overlain by retaining rollers. At an intermediate p... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4592284 | Automatic transportation apparatus making use of underground cable An automatic transportation system and the vehicles thereof for use, for example, in transporting golf clubs and related equipment around a golf course. The system includes U-shaped channel members embedded end-to-end in the ground provided with pulleys t... | 06/03/1986 |
