Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6951149 | Output shaft locking device for multi-clutch transmission and locking method of same An output shaft locking device for a multi-clutch transmission in which a plurality of rotational mechanisms, each of which is formed by arranging a clutch and a shifting mechanism is series, is provided in parallel between a rotational power input shaft and a rotat... | 10/04/2005 |
| 3971995 | Wheel velocity sensor with exciter ring runout compensation A single-core wheel velocity sensor which is substantially immune to exciter ring or wheel runout is provided by a toroidal-shaped magnetic core, a winding on the core, a bias magnet placed adjacent to the core, an oscillator which supplies a high-frequen... | 07/27/1976 |
