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 |
| 6914350 | Switching arrangement A solid state switching arrangement includes a transmission line which acts as a primary transformer loop and acts with secondary windings carried by switching modules to apply triggering signals to the switches. The arrangement may include greater than sixty module... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6071998 | Polyhydroxyalkanoate molding compositions Molding compositions including polyhydroxyalkanoates are provided. The use of polyhydroxyalkanoates as a binder in molding compositions provides improved binder removal in the finished molded product, and offers a wide range of physical properties suitabl... | 06/06/2000 |
| 4500411 | Automatically operated polarographic analyzer The present invention relates to an automatic cell for polarographic analysis. According to the invention said cell comprises a vessel (14) containing a nebulizer (3) for deaerating the sample to be analyzed, the deaerated sample being accumulated into a ... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4204243 | Polarity indicating and reversing unit A polarity indicating and reversing unit for connecting a power supply line to a load line, the unit having a polarity indicating lamp for indicating a reverse polarity condition at the load and and a polarity reversing switch for reversing the polarity o... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4142944 | Apparatus and methods for effluent stream analysis An effluent delivery tube directs effluent from below mercury drops formed by a mercury drop electrode in a vertically upward direction coaxial to the vertical axis of the mercury drop to provide turbulent free flow of effluent about the drops. A method o... | 03/06/1979 |