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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
Simon Newcomb, astronomer ; Said in 1902, less than two years before the first flight at Kitty Hawk
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7016308 | Digital return path for hybrid fiber/coax network A hybrid fiber/coax network is provided. The network includes a head end with at least one optical distribution node coupled to the head end over at least one fiber optic link. A plurality of coaxial cable links are coupled to each of the at least one optical distri... | 03/21/2006 |
| 5369259 | Chip card reader A chip card reader comprises a contact support and a card receiver. The card receiver can be moved back and forth in the contact support so that, when a chip card is inserted in the card receiver, the card receiver is moved (lowered), together with the ca... | 11/29/1994 |
| 4535204 | Telephone dialling system A telephone dialling system uses a hand-held wand to read telephone numbers represented in bar-code form. The coded numbers are converted to electrical signals, stored and then dialed out in impulse or tone signalling form. A microprocessor implementation... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4215621 | Target marker placement for dive-toss deliveries with wings nonlevel An apparatus for positioning the target marker in a toss-bombing display to allow toss-bombing when the wings of the bombing aircraft are not level.... | 08/05/1980 |
| 3995144 | Banked bombing system Method and sighting apparatus for aerial bombing from a curved approach path in a plane other than a vertical plane. Computer calculates and drives proper lead angle for sight which includes a reticle for target tracking with freedom to move in two dimens... | 11/30/1976 |
