Did You Know...
...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 |
| 4976292 | Weft end tensioning and detecting devices for shuttleless loom A weft end treating device for a shuttleless loom comprises a yarn holding device which holds the free end of an inserted weft and tensions the weft in synchronism with the beating motion, and pushing dents for pushing the free end of the weft into the ya... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4009737 | Filling thread stop motion device for a loop A filling thread stop motion device for a loom which, upon failure of delivery of a filling thread during the weaving operation, the device shuts down the loom.... | 03/01/1977 |
