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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7003886 | Inner cutter unit and outer cutter unit for an electric shaver An electric rotary or reciprocating shaver including an inner cutter unit, with which inner cutter blades that make a sliding contact with the blade surface of an outer cutter, being provided with recesses that is filled with a synthetic resin. The outer cutter of a... | 02/28/2006 |
| 4989324 | Hair clipper blade set Disclosed herein is a hair clipper blade set comprising a lower blade including a forward edge with a series of teeth extending therealong, upper and lower surfaces extending from said forward edge, and a threaded bore extending between the upper and lowe... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4577408 | Hair-cutting device A hair-cutting device comprises a stationary cutter; and a drivable cutter reciprocatingly movable with respect to the stationary cutter, each cutter being provided with teeth extending substantially at right angles to the driving direction. Each tooth of... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4458417 | Hair clipper blade set A hair clipper blade set including a spring member for supporting a upper blade against a lower blade and for linear movement of the upper blade and the lower blade parallel to their forward edges. The spring member is comprised of a forward end positionable a... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4075760 | Battery operated shears There is disclosed herein a battery operated power grass shear wherein a fixed blade and a superimposed laterally oscillating movable blade have forwardly projecting, laterally spaced cutting teeth, the planes of said blades being tilted convergently rela... | 02/28/1978 |
| 3934340 | Cutting blade edge construction for mechanically actuated shears Pairs of planar cutting blades with angularly related cutting edges such as are used in grass shears, and the like, and which are mechanically actuated to move relative to each other and to cut by a scissors-like action are formed in a manner such that du... | 01/27/1976 |
