Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4467768 | Electronic fuel injection device for an internal combustion engine The device comprises a control system (100) commanded by sensing means consisting of at least one optic fibre transmitting a radiation to at least one radiation detector, said sensing means co-operating with a rotating element driven by the engine, which ... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4369747 | Method of and apparatus for preparation of a combustion mixture for engines with divided combustion space Method of and apparatus for preparation of a combustible mixture of different mixing ration for a main combustion chamber and for a subsidiary combustion chamber for an internal combustion engine. In such apparatus there are a main suction channel termina... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4111177 | Internal combustion engine A stratified charge, internal combustion engine having a cylinder, a piston reciprocally disposed within the cylinder, a head secured over the cylinder, a chamber in the head above the cylinder, an air pocket adjacent the chamber and extending radially be... | 09/05/1978 |
