...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6909322 | Stage of a power generator of high frequency current Output amplifier stage (1) of a high frequency generator (1) with tube (2) operating in class B or C has its output (5) looped back on the input (4) by means of a coaxial line (31) with a length equal to approximately the wa... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6788161 | Integrated oscillator circuit that inhibits noise generated by biasing circuitry Disclosed is an oscillator circuit (1A) for use in a local oscillator of an RF communications device (100) that communicates over an RF channel. The oscillator circuit includes an oscillator circuit portion (2) and a bias circuit portion (3 | 09/07/2004 |
| 4574257 | Crystal resonator oscillator having circuitry for suppressing undesired crystal harmonics Oscillator circuit comprising an amplifier arrangement being connected to a reference level an output and an input thereof being coupled via a single signal-carrying terminal to a resonant network which is connected to the same reference level as the ampl... | 03/04/1986 |