...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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7158559 | Serial cancellation receiver design for a coded signal processing engine A novel serial receiver for a wireless communication system is provided. The communication system comprises: a receiver for receiving a signal y having data parameters; a control processor; the control processor for receiving the signal y and the data parameters; at... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6828893 | Transformer circuit arrangement A transformer circuit arrangement has a first transformer (201) with a first lower limit frequency (fu1) and a first upper limit frequency (fo1), and a second transformer (202) with a second lower limit frequency (fu2) and a second... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6741700 | Low insertion loss current sense circuit A current sense circuit for sensing a current in a subscriber loop comprising a transformer having a first and second winding coupled for sensing a differential current in a loop, a sense winding for producing a sense current in response to a magnetic flux induced i... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6356759 | Resource allocation mechanism in packet radio network In a packet radio system (e.g. a GPRS), a network (BSS) has two different alternatives for allocating a radio resource to a mobile station (MS). In a first allocation alternative the radio resource is allocated using an uplink counter block identifier (US... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6175561 | Method and apparatus for acquiring a pilot signal in a CDMA receiver A searcher receiver (114) includes a sample buffer (202) which stores signal samples loaded using a real time clock. A real time linear sequence generator (RT LSG) (206) stores an initial state and is clocked using the real time clock. The contents of the... | 01/16/2001 |
| 4336422 | Toll restrictor There is provided a telephone toll restrictor which is adapted to split the telephone line into two separate circuits for isolating the instrument from the central office during dialing. A dialing tone sensor provides signalling information to a programme... | 06/22/1982 |