Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5046450 | Apparatus for interior coating of cavities An apparatus for the interior coating of cavities, particularly of an automobile body, comprising a spray gun having a nozzle probe plug-in coupling and spray shot trigger means and comprising nozzle probes connected to the spray gun, each thereof being a... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4686925 | Rotary boat repair apparatus An apparatus for repairing boat hulls comprising a rack mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis. A beam is cantilevered outwardly from the rack, and a hoist mechanism is mounted for travel on the beam. A boat resting on a trailer is moved partially w... | 08/18/1987 |
