...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| 7248890 | Channel power balancing in a multi-channel transceiver system A transceiver according to some embodiments of the present invention receives data from a plurality of frequency separated transmission channels from a complementary transmitter of another transceiver and adjusts the power output of certain channels in a transmitter... | 07/24/2007 |
| 5734711 | Telecommunication system with energy-saving mode In a program-controlled telecommunication system (KS), at least sub-areas (SLM1..n) are controlled into an energy-saving mode with reduced energy consumption using a central controller (ZS) and additional controllers (SM) given the presence of energy-savi... | 03/31/1998 |