...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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| 7337087 | Circuit analyzing apparatus, circuit analyzing method and circuit analyzing program A circuit analyzing apparatus for analyzing operation characteristics of a circuit unit in which, on a substrate, circuit devices are arranged, has a part for automatically obtaining a value of a substrate parameter concerning the substrate for an operating frequenc... | 02/26/2008 |
| 6981634 | Keystroke trapping system, keystroke trapping method and keystroke trapping program A false act of a clerk at a store is monitored at a host computer under utilization of a communication network by detecting a false key operation in reference to a count which can be flexibly set in an item sales register or the like. The sales processing unit reads... | 01/03/2006 |