...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3953800 | Tuning indicator for a radio frequency receiver A radio or television receiver is selectively tunable to one of a number of carrier frequencies transmitted from distant broadcast stations and has a tuning indicator for displaying the frequency of a selected station. The indicator includes a station fre... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3952277 | Combined variable resistor assembly provided with position indicator means There is provided a combined variable resistor assembly provided with position indicator means for indicating positions of individual variable resistors by respective bright spots adapted to be moved by manipulating the associated variable resistors. This... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3948209 | Indicator apparatus There is provided, in accordance with this invention, an indicator apparatus comprising a sign board which is free to rotate and has a plurality of light transparent portions each being formed in a sign shape, a display board which has display perforation... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3936795 | Combined variable resistor assembly provided with tap position indicator means There is provided a combined variable resistor assembly provided with position indicator means for indicating positions of individual variable resistors by respective bright spots adapted to be moved by manipulating the associated variable resistors. This... | 02/03/1976 |
| 3936752 | Device for presetting a television program and the like A device for use with a television receiver or the like, in which the time of receiving a telecast and the channel number of the telecast are preset, whereby the telecast of the preset channel can be automatically received at the preset time.... | 02/03/1976 |