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 |
| 5316049 | Locking mechanisms for selective retention of oscillating levers engaged by knives in a dobby In a heavy closed-shed dobby of a weaving machine having oscillating levers which are selectively connected to one of two oppositely movable actuation knives by rocking double hooks mounted thereto so as to control the movement of heddle frames to which t... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5131436 | Mid closing dobby A dobby for a weaving loom including a series of actuation elements which depend on a weaving program incorporated in a reading device and which are coupled to traction levers connected by a drawing system to the heddle frames, wherein, between the tracti... | 07/21/1992 |
