...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 |
| 3946821 | Balance Balances having a reference mass and means for compensating for thermally induced errors such as shift of the zero-point and change of steepness in the characteristic of the balance. Bimetallic members are fastened to movable parts such as levers or other... | 03/30/1976 |