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Napoleon Bonaparte ; When told of the Robert Fulton steamboat
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7134252 | Retrofit hurricane and earthquake protection Retrofit connectors that secure together the outside sheathing and underlying structural members of wood-frame or masonry houses, preventing damage when subjected to lateral stresses from a hurricane, or transverse loads from an earthquake. The connectors have speci... | 11/14/2006 |
| 4779298 | Foldable cable-supported ramp A portable foldable ramp for bridging the space between ground level and a raised level such as the bed of a pickup truck, to permit the passage of the wheels of all-terrain vehicles and like products. The ramp has a pair of generally U-shaped ramp sectio... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4761847 | Folding ramp A portable folding ramp used for ascending or descending an object or platform. The ramp is comprised of a plurality of rectangular panels, respective ones of adjoining panels being pivotably hinged along adjacent sidewalls such that the ramp may be folde... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4730701 | Stepladder assembly A stepladder assembly has step assemblies mounted to its front rails using a bracket at each end of each step. Each bracket has truss anchor pocket means therein. Each truss rod is headed at both ends. The brackets are pre-assembled with a truss rod to a ... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4317504 | Telescopic aerial ladder The invention relates to a telescopic aerial ladder, especially intended to be mounted on a transportation vehicle. Said ladder comprises a number of ladder members superposed on each other, each member consisting of two trapezoidal lateral wings connecte... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4021875 | Pivotable and extensible tension post for a cable bridge structure This invention relates to bridge sections and is particularly concerned w bridge sections of the type which incorporates tensioned cables to reinforce the structure of the bridge sections. The cables are tensioned to provide a bowstring truss section in ... | 05/10/1977 |
