...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 |
| 7100550 | Two-stroke engine transfer ports A two-stroke internal combustion engine including a cylinder; and a piston movably mounted in the cylinder. The cylinder includes an exhaust port and transfer ports. The transfer ports include a first pair of the transfer ports disposed closer to the exhaust port th... | 09/05/2006 |
| 5862781 | Two-stroke internal combustion engine In a two-stroke internal combustion engine with a crank slide mechanism and a plurality of working cylinders which, have bases and are divided by a piston into a lower and an upper cylinder chamber, the lower cylinder chamber being used substantially for ... | 01/26/1999 |
| 4813387 | Internal combustion, reciprocating piston engine The present invention relates to an internal combustion, reciprocating pin engine with a piston which, on its up-stroke, sucks air or a fuel-air mixture via a flap valve or a similar device into the space beneath its base and, during the down-stroke, sen... | 03/21/1989 |