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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| 6470827 | Nest pads In an egg production facility for producing eggs for hatcheries, having a plurality of nests adjacent a conveyor belt for transporting freshly laid eggs from the nests, a nest pad having a tongue extending outwardly thereof and overlaying the conveyor bel... | 10/29/2002 |
| 5562067 | Egg harvester An egg harvester has hingedly connecting nesting boxes resting on an elongate belt fixed at each end and along which a shuttle is pulled by a drive cable. The belt and a second conveyor define two slots which pass under the nesting boxes. The eggs and lit... | 10/08/1996 |
