Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5448952 | Door driving mechanism A driving mechanism is disposed in the bottom of a door for driving the door and includes a reduction gearing and a motor fixed to the door, and a gear coupled to the reduction gearing and engaged with two shafts for rotatably supporting the wheels of the... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5058507 | Carriage drive for mobile storage system with drive chain tensioner A carriage for a mobile storage system, including a frame having an inverted U-shaped cross section, including two downwardly depending sides extending the length of the frame. A drive shaft is journaled to the frame and rotated by a prime mover. A drive ... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4940002 | Railway traction motor with skewed support bearings A railway locomotive truck provides improved mountings and/or configurations for traction motor axle support bearings to improve their wear life. These include tilting, or sloping, of the support bearing bores to more closely match the orientations of the... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4669390 | Robot carrier structure A robot carrier structure constituted by a carriage movable on rails and supported on four wheels two of which are mounted on a driven shaft and two are idle wheels. Each drive wheel has a structure adapted to ensure a high adherence to the rail, particul... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4192238 | Railway car drive system A railway car includes prime movers mounted to a car body directly connected to pairs of gear boxes to drive pairs of axles mounted on a pair of trucks, with direct connections between the gear boxes and the connections being such so as to permit independ... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4167906 | Railway vehicle bogies The drive means for each wheel set is connected via a two bar-like connecting member to an intermediate portion of the bogie frame or to a cross-member in a manner such that longitudinal forces are transferred to the vehicle body. Also, the opposite side ... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4135453 | Motorized bogie A driving bogie having at least one driving motor, a pair of driven wheel-and-axle units and an axle gear for each of the axles of the wheel-and-axle units rigidly connected with the bogie frame, is arranged with a hollow transmission shaft for the axle g... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4122779 | Dual track transfer system and a transfer car for use therewith A dual track system whereby a transfer car can be turned at least 90° in a minimum amount of space. The track system comprises a first set of parallel railroad-type rails of a standard size and cross section for the wheels of the lead truck of a transfer... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4067260 | Rack and pinion and adhesion drive locomotive Two sets of independently rotatable gear wheels are interconnected between the differential gear coupled to the motor and the two respective reduction drives coupled to the gear wheel rack and pinion drive and adhesion wheel drive. The sets of gear wheels... | 01/10/1978 |
| 3993280 | Drafting stool A drafting stool having electric motors both for moving it along the floor parallel to the forward edge of a drafting table, and for changing the elevation of the seat. Provision is made for guiding its travel along the floor, for preventing overturning t... | 11/23/1976 |
