...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322594 | Draw coupling arrangement A draw coupling arrangement (1) for a vehicle including a coupling jaw (2) and a coupler (4) which can be lifted by a lifting device (5). The coupler is intended for coupling together with a towing eye on a towed vehicle, and where the co... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7127960 | Tripping and re-cocking mechanism An apparatus (20) for testing the co-efficient of friction of a road surface (78) of a road (79) including an electronic digital device (22) that senses through its sensor (75) the speed of a toothed sprocket wheel (71) and ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 4998483 | Bogie steering system A bogie unit including at least one wheeled axle pivotally movable about a central vertical axis, a drawbar pivotally secured to a pivot point, and a control device connected to the axle and engaged with the drawbar, the control device being movable, at l... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4893717 | Trailer hitch for use with a railroad car A hitch (10) for releasably connecting a double stack trailer to a road railer car having a tongue (14) having an opening (15) includes a top wall (16), bottom wall (24) and first and second walls (28) and (30) cooperatively connected to form a housing (1... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4311244 | Automatic coupler to connect convertible rail-highway vehicles end to end A coupler to connect rail-highway vehicles end to end including a female member at the end of one vehicle into which extends a sensing member, a male member at the end of an adjacent vehicle adapted to enter the female member, the male member including a ... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4202454 | Coupler to connect convertible rail-highway vehicles end to end A coupler to connect convertible rail-highway vehicles end to end to achieve train configuration to carry vertical loads of about 25,000 pounds and at the same time provide limited rolling, pitching and yaw actions between the coupled vehicles. The couple... | 05/13/1980 |