Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4723855 | Compact printer A compact printer has a type drum having at least one row of types, the types, including at least one space, being arranged on the periphery of the drum at regular intervals. The type drum is rotated by a stepper motor and a hammer member is provided for ... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4494885 | Compact printer A compact printer having a typefont belt constituting a typefont wheel maintained under tension on a support, wherein the platen is rendered displaceable in a direction away from the typefont wheel after the completion of the printing operation, and the f... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4363268 | Drum type bar code line printer A drum type bar code line printer of the type has groups of predetermined kinds of bar code printing types which are arranged along the circumference of a printing drum in predetermined rows which are distributed along the axial direction of the drum. In ... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4345846 | Impact printer with dual helix character print elements An impact printer is provided with a print member which comprises a first helical element having a first font of type characters arranged around its periphery; this first helical element is rotatably mounted so as to be linearily movable along an axis adj... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4138942 | Printing device for printing on a continuously moving form The present device is a means for printing multi-lines of characters simultaneously on a continuously moving print receiving medium or form and in a manner eliminating the need for indexing the form line by line and column by column. Multiple type fonts a... | 02/13/1979 |
| 3993180 | Drive mechanism for an asynchronous printer A tabulation drive mechanism is described for use with an asynchronous printer mechanism of the sort including a rotating type wheel which has its characters arranged thereon along a helical path. The wheel is rotated continuously about the axis of the he... | 11/23/1976 |
