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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6802500 | Systems and methods of providing inserts into envelopes The present invention provides exemplary mail processing systems and methods, including systems and methods for retrieving paper sheets, statements, inserts and/or cards, and inserting same into an envelope. In one embodiment, an apparatus (200) includes a pa... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6494661 | Device and method for providing a cover for a book A method for covering a book includes delivering a book into a pocket, delivering an inverted cover for the book into the pocket, the cover having a first side and a second side, the first side of the cover contacting a side of the book in the pocket, and... | 12/17/2002 |
| 4537391 | Rotary collating and/or inserting machines and method of collating and/or inserting sheet material In a rotary collating and/or inserting machine where individual sheets are peeled from the bottom of a plurality of stacks of sheets arranged spaced around a circle on a table and are moved down through one or more radial slots in the table, the separatio... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4042233 | Installation for collecting identically shaped, large and different types of sheets from a plurality of dispensing stations at a collating station An installation for the collation of identically-shaped, large, and particularly, different types of sheets from a plurality of dispensing stations at a collecting station. In the installation, sheets stored at a plurality of dispensing stations are conve... | 08/16/1977 |
