Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| 6440522 | Method and device for producing a security element and a corresponding security element A method of producing a security element for electronically securing an object, a device for producing the security element and the security element itself form aspects of the present invention. The security element includes a strip element embedded in sh... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6019662 | Brassiere frame members An underwire for an underwire brassier has a metal wire bow provided at one end with a stitching flange and preferably formed at the other end with an elastomeric tip. A double-cup frame for the underwire brassiere has an inverted U-shaped bridge piece wh... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5401203 | Method of matching brassiere wire or stay to a brassiere cup A method of making a brassiere wire for a particular underwire brassiere cup utilizing a set of brassiere wires having rectilinear markings where excess of the wire can be cut away with rounding of the resulting end portions to form the brassiere wire.... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5219311 | Brassiere wire or stay A brassiere wire has a body adapted to fit into a channel in a brassiere to extend beneath a breast cup of a brassiere, the brassiere wire having a semicircular body lying in a plane and of flattened cross section, and a rectilinear flexible portion on at... | 06/15/1993 |
| 4626311 | Cloth product having an antitheft device and method of making same A launderable cloth product having an antitheft device attached thereto, antitheft device for such product, and method of making each are provided in which the device is capable of interrupting magnetic a sensing field upon passing the product with its at... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4169753 | Method for automatic shirt collar stay applying The method of stiffening the ends for shirt collars or the liner therefore is achieved by first forming an elongated polyester stiffening element or stay to be attached to the collar or collar liner. At least one side of the stay is coated with a polyeste... | 10/02/1979 |
