Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7591328 | Drilling and anchor setting tool A drilling and anchor-setting tool (1) for mine, tunnel, and underground works for setting an anchor (5) in a borehole and provided with a core bit and with single-or multi-component adhesive mass (6), with the tool including a housing (2... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7055630 | Erection of signs using a single vehicle A truck mounted crane is equipped with an earth boring bit apparatus which can be attached to the end of a crane boom to excavate holes prior to the erection of signs or other elevated pole mounted structures. The earth boring bit apparatus includes a earth boring b... | 06/06/2006 |
| 5392869 | Anchor bolt drilling and setting device For inserting anchor bolts in the region of the tunnel side wall up to near to the face, in addition to anchor bolt drilling and setting devices for the roof in the front region of the road-driving machine additional anchor bolt and setting devices are mo... | 02/28/1995 |
| 4067397 | Hand-operated device for drilling blast-holes The perforator body is provided with a built-in pulling winch whose drum is wound with a wire rope. The winch axle mounts a worm wheel meshing with the perforator box whose external surface is made in the form of a worm. The wire rope is secured to the ro... | 01/10/1978 |
