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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7518956 | Planisphere clock A timepiece for displaying a planisphere and indicating a portion of the planisphere. Another exemplary embodiment is a clock that displays both sidereal and solar time, while indicating a portion of the planisphere at a particular time. Another exemplary embodiment... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7372781 | Watch comprising a solar time display A watch having a civil time display (12, 16), a solar time display (13, 18) and a mechanism for correction (24, 34, 36) of these displays. The correction mechanism is arranged in such a way as to allow the relative desynchronization of the civil... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357638 | Astrological horoscopes The invention provides a zodiac sign horoscope mapping device, locating the coordinate positions of the twelve zodiac signs, in a manner accurately reflecting the precession of the equinoxes. The device divides the ecliptic coordinate sphere into twelve uniform long... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359288 | Method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially activating a clock Method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially activating a clock. After manufacture of the clock and before it is purchased by the user, a basic data set, including the time and geographical region data, are input to the cl... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339856 | Clock with sports motif A novel device for displaying the correct time comprises a clock with interchangeable and attachable panels comprising decorative indicia or figures; a second hand with replaceable indicia or figures, minute hand, and hour hand; and means to drive said timing hands.... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7251198 | Moon phase wheel chart A moon phase wheel chart for determining the phase of the moon for a particular date, past, present, or future, has three wheel members adapted to rotate about a common center. The first wheel member has in its center indicia representing the phases of the moon and ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7218575 | Angular twilight clock A method and apparatus for displaying time, the day sequence for the beginning and ending of twilight, sunrise and sunset in pie-shaped section on a circular clock face. A corresponding day sequence is retrieved from a memory and presented on a circular clock face i... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7196973 | Method and device for displaying a moon image cycle, in particular for a watch In order to display images true to the real appearance of the moon during a lunation, particularly in a watch, there is provided a rotating indicator disc (8) arranged behind a circular aperture of a dial and comprising an annular region (20) subdivide... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7154415 | Celestial body communication techniques In a communication technique using the apparent distribution of stars and other celestial bodies visible from the earth to generate codes corresponding to communication characters such as the English alphabet and or Arabic numbers, the characters of a conventional k... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154815 | Astronomical timepiece The present invention concerns an electronic astronomical watch, in particular of the wristwatch type, said watch (1) being capable of indicating the position of celestial bodies in the heavens, said watch (1) including: ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146005 | Input element for a telephone An input element for a telephone for inputting data having two rotary functions in respectively opposite directions, and which also has two key functions which are independent of the rotary functions, the key functions being triggered by a movement in a plane substa... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7096239 | Trigonometry calculator A trigonometry calculator is programmed with four selectable calculations of unknown parameters of any plane triangle having three known parameters. The calculations accept known parameters of SIDE SIDE ANGLE, SIDE ANGLE SIDE, SIDE SIDE SIDE, and ANGLE ANGLE SIDE an... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092156 | Automated telescope alignment and orientation method A fully automated telescope system is able to be fully operable in both Alt-Az and polar configurations. In either configuration, the telescope aligns itself to the celestial coordinate system following a simplified initialization procedure during which the telescop... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079317 | Automated telescope with distributed orientation and operation processing An automated telescope includes an optical system and respective altitude and azimuth motor systems. Each motor system is configured to rotate the optical system about a corresponding altitude or azimuth axis. Each of the altitude and azimuth motor systems includes ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7069055 | Mobile telephone capable of displaying world time and method for controlling the same An apparatus and method for calculating and displaying local time for a plurality of cities in the world. The apparatus includes a memory for storing Greenwich mean time (GMT) information for each of the plurality of cities. The apparatus sets a reference time and c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7035169 | Event planner timepiece The present invention relates to an electronic timepiece, of the wristwatch type, for providing information relating to an event comprising a plurality of scheduled events, like for example the Olympic Games, the football World Cup, or the public holidays across the... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7025494 | Wrist-portable apparatus A wrist-portable apparatus has a case housing a rotational display member and an operational shaft for undergoing rotational movement and sliding movement relative to the case so that the operational shaft may be axially displaced between a pushed-in position, in wh... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6947351 | Watch equipped with means for determining a location longitude The invention concerns a watch equipped with means for determining a location longitude and a device for determining the sun's altitude above the horizon. Said watch comprises a mobile element (16) doing one full rotation in 12 hours and bearing a hour hand (... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6901032 | Timepiece from which sunrise and sunset time can be determined Disclosed is a timepiece from which a sunrise and sunset time along with the position of the sun can be determined. The sunrise time and the sunset time are changed according to the season and the latitude of the place where one man the time. People acquire the sunr... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6744695 | Planisphere watch A planisphere watch includes a watch case having a transparent lens. A time keeping mechanism is disposed within the case and has a time display viewable through the lens. A planisphere map of star constellations and star systems is viewable through the lens. A rota... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6650596 | Method of calculating religious Hijri calendar A method for calculating a Hijri religious calendar based on the visibility of a crescent moon. The method comprises using a camera and/or weather reports to determine the weather conditions in a region. Preferably, the camera view and the weather report ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6625085 | Universal timepiece from which latitude and longitude can be determined A universal timepiece from which a latitude and a longitude can be determined. A bottom plate which has the names of the main cities in the world, scales and the relative longitudes according to the real longitudes of the cities on the circumference there... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6580663 | Celestial timepiece assembly A timepiece and combined astrological display assembly including a casing which may be sized to resemble a wristwatch, PDA or a variety of other structures and including a display assembly mounted on the casing. The display assembly is responsive to a pro... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6411567 | Drug delivery management system A system for managing delivery of pharmaceutical drugs is formed of a blister package that includes a plurality of cells arranged in a grid. Each of the cells is sealed by a breakable wall and holds a unit-dose of medication. A user gains access to the me... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6272076 | Astronomic watch The invention concerns astronomic watches capable of indicating the position of heavenly bodies of the solar system with respect to the Earth and to the zodiac. The watch according to the invention is an electronic watch including: a time base (1) for gen... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6222796 | Astrological watch The concept of an astrological watch is that of a watch which provides a daily horoscope based on ones astrological sign. The astrological watch matches up with a birth sign. The watch contains a computer chip that provides daily horoscopes for the sign o... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6202035 | System for determining time or direction for prayer The present invention relates to a device for determining a time and/or direction for prayer, comprising: receiving means for receiving signals indicative of a position on or above the earth; computing means for computing a time for prayer on the basis of... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6108277 | Celestial timepiece assembly A timepiece and combined astrological display assembly including a casing which may be sized to resemble a wristwatch and a display assembly mounted on the casing and viewable through a display face. The display assembly is responsive to a processor sized... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5701678 | Space-time tracker A space-time tracker for announcing the time and tracking the celestrial bodies on the spot of observation comprises a clock mechanism with clock hands on a dial of 24 hours and a synchronic motor for driving a star atlas and a plurality of planet driving... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5590093 | Digital sundial A digital sundial displays the current solar time in digits, words, or pictures. Two closely-spaced parallel masks project different images depending on the angular position of the sun in the following way: The first mask, a regular array of thin vertical... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5519673 | Clock with constellation display A clock is formed by a front frame (11) for forming a clock body, a back frame (35) fixed with the former, a transparent dial plate (17) fixed with the front frame and having scale marks on the periphery for representing month and day, a constellation dis... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5508979 | Timepiece with indication of the part of the earth visible from the moon This timepiece is provided to indicate the phases of the earth as they would be perceived by an astronaut contemplating the heavens from the moon.... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5457663 | Astronomical time clocks An astronomical time clock has a clock face divided into twelve segments representing the months of the year and a centrally positioned light which represents the sun. A globe representing the Earth rotates by a drive means around the light and is positio... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5367504 | Timepiece with improved display advancing and resetting mechanisms This invention concerns a timepiece of the mechanical and/or electromechanical type. Such piece comprises a first display mechanism (1), in particular a date display, a second display mechanism (2) such as a moon phase display, rapid correction means (4) ... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5345429 | Astronomic timepiece having a visible element simulating the displacement of a star The earth ring (8) bears the lunar disc (9) which pivots in a hollow of the surface (8a). On its outer periphery it possesses teeth (17) for driving it from the final wheel set (15) of the stepping transmission gear train (15,24,12). The driving wheel set... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5269065 | Compass including means for displaying constellation data A compass wherein positional information regarding a predetermined terrestrial location is stored; present time, corresponding to the terrestrial location whose positional information is stored, is measured and displayed; and constellation data is stored.... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5253225 | Compass watch of the mechanically or electromechanically driven type and bezel specifically intended for such a watch This invention concerns a compass watch as well as a bezel specifically intended to fit out such a watch. The invention comprises at least one time indicating element (4) kinematically driven in rotation by a mechanical or electromechanical horometric mov... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5208790 | Astronomical data indicating device An astronomical data indicating device is provided with a memory for storing location data representing a location on the earth. In the present device, before calculation of astronomical data such as hour angle data of moon and moon phase data, at first h... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5023849 | Astronomic timepiece and disc intended for use therein The invention concerns an astronomic timepiece enabling a simple display of the daily value of an astronomic magnitude having an annual cycle. The timepiece comprises a month disc (13), at least a portion of which is visible through an opening (19) provid... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4933920 | Sidereal clock The sidereal clock comprises a digital clock portion having a 60-Hz pulse source operating at line frequency of 60-Hz. It contains a means for periodically changing logic state at the 50/60-Hz select input of the prescale counter so that the digital clock... | 06/12/1990 |
