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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6810826 | Anchoring system for boat A device is disclosed for an anchoring system for a boat which permits the user to deploy the anchor from the side or rear of the boat, and for the anchoring point on which the anchor rope acts to travel from the side or rear of the boat to the front of the boat. | 11/02/2004 |
| 6189471 | Sailboats and methods The invention provides various improved sailboats and methods for their use. In one exemplary embodiment, a sailboat comprises a hull and a deck that is operably attached to the hull. The deck has a longitudinal axis extending along its center. A mast is ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5996519 | Sailboats and methods The invention provides various improved sailboats and methods for their use. In one exemplary embodiment, a sailboat comprises a hull and a deck that is operably attached to the hull. The deck has a longitudinal axis extending along its center. A mast is ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5988086 | Sailboat and methods The invention provides various improved sailboats and methods for their use. In one exemplary embodiment, a sailboat comprises a hull and a deck that is operably attached to the hull. The deck has a longitudinal axis extending along its center. A mast is ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5167198 | Device for hoisting a sail taut A device for hoisting the sail of a sailing boat has a track mounted on a support extending transversely across the deck of a boat. A sliding mechanism engages with the track and is slidable to and fro the length of the track. A clew of the sail is fixed ... | 12/01/1992 |
| 4969411 | Track-to-track adaptor system for genoa lead car adjustment A track-to-track adaptor system is mounted to an elongated first track fixedly mounted to and extending longitudinally or transversely along a sailing yacht. The adaptor system includes a lead car system having a relatively short length second track with ... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4719869 | Sailboat traveler car assembly with removable block An adjustable system is described for control of a genoa sheet on a sailboat. The sheet is passed through a pulley or lead block carried by a car which is slidably mounted on a track. The block and car have complementary interfitting parts to enable the b... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4688504 | Sailing craft A sailing craft has a middle float and two lateral pivotable floats joined to it via struts and their joints. The two lateral floats each have two surface regions that can be brought into contact with the surface of the water. One surface region is embodi... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4671201 | Method and apparatus of automatically controlling sailboat The present invention provides a method of automatically controlling a sailboat having at least two soft sails, including the steps of sensing the wind direction to determine an angle of sail in each of the sails, sensing tensions and/or vibrations in eac... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4570562 | Light sailing vehicle with movably mounted mast The invention relates to light, sailing vehicles equipped with at least one sail fixed on a mast and attached to a boom. The mast is supported toward its middle part at the top of a two-legged support, in the form of an inverted V, and mounted rigidly on ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4350108 | Automatic traveller tender For a sailboat, a constant force spring reel is used to balance the force in a control line used to establish the angle of the sail with respect to the boat. The spring exerts an essentially constant force on the control line whereby the sail is allowed t... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4263861 | Sailing craft In a sailing craft, in which the foot of a sail is attached to a yard pivoted on a boom, itself pivoted on the mast, this sail, provided to be of single or double-thickness, preferably comprising a sectioned front edge, restraints are provided for selecti... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4108100 | Rigging base for plural-hull sailing craft and methods for sail control An elongated spar is attached longitudinally to cross-members interconnecting the hulls of plural-hull sailing craft, which spar projects forward to provide points of attachment for the forestays and headsail tacks of the sailing craft, whereby the forces... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4013031 | Apparatus to control jib A jib sheet apparatus for sailboats which will permit a jib sheet, and thus a head sail of any size, to be trimmed from one side of a sailboat to the other, as in tacking or jibbing, by use of a continuous, closed traveller-track and fairlead apparatus sy... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3985092 | Sailboat traveler apparatus A traveler assembly used to position a boat sail includes a slider supported in a track mounted on a rigid frame of the boat. The slider consists of a base mounted in the channel-shaped track and hingedly supporting a fairlead assembly including a block, ... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3978809 | Roller traveller device A traveller device for positioning a sail and having a carrier that is moveable on rollers along a guide track. The rollers project on opposite sides of the carrier and are arranged in spaced-apart relation along the length thereof to engage with rolling ... | 09/07/1976 |
