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...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6772697 | Arrangement of service positions for maintenance apparatuses on a textile machine The invention concerns an arrangement of service positions for maintenance apparatus, which can travel on a guide rail along a multiplicity of similar workstations on a first side of a textile machine, wherein a maintenance apparatus in a first service position at t... | 08/10/2004 |
| 5423267 | Pocket rerailer A rerailing device for rerailing a wheel of a railcar or the like which has been derailed due to a spread rail comprising an L-shaped metal bar member including a vertically disposed bar portion and a horizontally disposed bar portion which extends horizo... | 06/13/1995 |
| 4840022 | Process and device for the servicing of work stations of spinning or doubling machines by means of a plurality of service units capable of travelling alongside the work stations In order to service work stations of either spinning or doubling machines of the type having several service units travelling alongside their work stations, whenever an inspection of a given service unit becomes necessary, the given service unit to be ins... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4324186 | Convertible rail-highway lateral track set off apparatus A railroad set-off apparatus includes vertically movable running gears and an auxiliary track extending transversely to the railway carriage on which it is mounted, the auxiliary track having two rails for the running gears, each of the auxiliary track ra... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4306504 | Railroad rerailer A stationary railroad rerailing apparatus for rerailing derailed cars while the train is moving, including V-shaped centering rails between the track rails, an inclined pad of a cushioning, penetrable material, such as asphalt-aggregate material, for rais... | 12/22/1981 |
