The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5455591 | Precision high speed perspective transformation from range-azimuth format to elevation-azimuth format A high speed and high precision coordinate transformation process for transforming image data in range-azimuth coordinates to horizontal-vertical display coordinates. The process is comprised of the following steps. Recursion initialization parameters and... | 10/03/1995 |
| 4596987 | PPI display apparatus A PPI display apparatus allows a radar image or bearing marker to be displayed on a circular CRT screen through sweeping on the basis of a plan position indicator system. In the apparatus, the generation of a radar antenna angle signal, generation of a be... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4281327 | Range corrector circuit for a bistatic passive radar display The range corrector circuit uses two counters, one for the apparent range (Ra) and one for the correct range (Rc), and a random access memory (RAM). The Rc counter is continuously incremented linearly and the Ra... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4023166 | High power low loss nonresonant filter system A radar system using a resonant circuit pulsed generator such as a magnetron with a nonresonant filter using directional couplers to split the power output of the generator into two signal channels and to directionally recombine the channels after the cha... | 05/10/1977 |