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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7775218 | Tobacco cartridge particularly for use with narghiles A tobacco cartridge for use with a narghile or other smoking appliance having a tobacco bowl for receiving tobacco includes a quantity of tobacco enclosed within an enclosure having a lower end configured for applying the cartridge to the tobacco bowl of the smoking... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7404405 | Portable hookah system and hookah containment device Disclosed is a hookah containment device that allows a user to smoke a prepared hookah while engaging in foot traffic. A portable hookah system includes a hookah and the hookah containment device tailored to mate with the hookah in a fashion to vertically stabilize ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 4944317 | Tobacco portion A tobacco portion (7) intended to be smoked in a pipe and comprising a metal-foil cup (9) whose outer shape corresponds substantially to the shape of the cavity of the pipe bowl. In order to ensure that the tobacco retains its moisture content and aromati... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4836225 | Shredded tobacco leaf pellet and production process thereof A shredded tobacco leaf pellet is composed of tobacco leaf shreds bound together with a resin binder while retaining air permeability. The shredded tobacco leaf pellet is produced by applying a polyol and a polyisocyanate to tobacco leaf shreds and then r... | 06/06/1989 |
| 3990458 | Pipe and tobacco pack A dual purpose pipe and tobacco pack, such that the invention results in two effects: (1) providing a tobacco pack for the pipe, and (2) providing a modified pipe, therefore, one may clean out the ashes after smoking easily and always keep the pipe clean.... | 11/09/1976 |
