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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5323720 | Revegetation method Surface mined lands are reseeded by dispensing grass, forb and shrub seed from a seed drill with seed-dispensing boxes connected to plural dispensing tubes which drop seed on the earth's surface and wherein at least one seed box is operable to dispense co... | 06/28/1994 |
| 4901655 | Cultivator A special cultivating machine, lawn care apparatus and process are provided to properly prepare, efficiently condition, and gently cultivate the soil, turf and lawn in a uniform manner without uprooting, ruining, or damaging existing healthy plants and gr... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4821655 | Lawn seeding machine A machine for slicing and seeding a lawn includes a number of seed distributing discs which are arranged as a bank that is freely pivotable on a vertical axis, to automatically follow in grooves made by slicing blades mounted forwardly in the machine. Wei... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4562779 | Foldable drill implement A foldable drill implement has a supply hopper mounted on a center frame section and a rearwardly mounted broadcast hopper extending onto wing frame sections. Various augers connect the supply hopper to the broadcast hopper and maintain a level of fill in... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4359952 | Planter quick attachable granular chemical hopper assembly A planter having a frame, a drive train supported from the frame and having a forward end adapted to be connected to a drive and the other end having drive structure rotatably supported on the frame, the frame also having a pair of laterally spaced horizo... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4300461 | Grass seed planter having fluid injection soil opener A mobile grass seed planter having mounted thereon a frontal line of spaced water nozzles, and behind each nozzle, in a second or back row, is a row of outlets through which seed is directed under air pressure. In operation, as the planter is moved over t... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4266489 | Double crop planter, sprayer and topper A high ground clearance tractor during one pass through rows of a standing crop, such as corn, opens a small furrow for a second crop, such as beans, plants the second crop, sprays suitable chemicals on the new crop, and trims the tops of the existing or ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4234105 | Hopper and feed wheel assembly for a fertilizer spreader A hopper and feed wheel assembly for a fertilizer or pesticide spreader is described. This assembly includes an open topped storage bin or hopper having a concave or "V"-shaped bottom with a flat center plat being disposed along the center or lower most p... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4231305 | Soil cultivating machine A cultivating machine includes a forward row of subsoil tools and a plurality of elongated cultivating rollers having support plates to which soil penetrating T-section bars or knife edged bars are attached. To the rear of the cultivating rollers, a trail... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4155315 | Mobile spreader A mobile spreader of the type drawn by a tractor includes a hopper mounted on a roller. The roller is provided with a jarring strip which imparts a jolt to the hopper on each revolution of the roller. This jolting action prevents bridging of the material ... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4145980 | Seeder for planting seeds at precise intervals An automatic seeder for planting tiny seeds at a consistent depth and at evenly spaced intervals, utilizing a vehicle carrying a novel seed dispersing means operationally disposed a short, preascertained distance above a seed bed. A ground sensing arrange... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4015549 | Herbicide tank trailer A trailer for towing behind a wide multi-row earth working farm implement coupled behind a farm tractor is provided and includes a wheeled frame, a large capacity liquid herbicide tank supported from the frame and centered in a front-to-rear extending dir... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3955513 | Combined cultivating and particled material applying gardening tool A device in which a single elongate shaft serves to support a tined structure for the cultivation of ground, a hopper for holding a quantity of a particled material such as fertilizer or the like that will have a beneficial result when applied to the soil... | 05/11/1976 |
