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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5228790 | Auxiliary device for typewriter right margin correction A mechanical device to be easily placed and removed over the margin rod of a key operated machine and having motion transfer levers which mechanically couple certain of its keys to other corresponding keys of the machine. The device is suitable for provid... | 07/20/1993 |
| 4733248 | Apparatus for recording graphical representations with checking of the recording area A recording apparatus capable of recording a graph according to graphic pattern data representative of a pattern of the graph, and graph data representative of values to be presented in the graph. The apparatus includes a control device for effecting and ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4350456 | Printer provided with a margin setting mechanism A printer provided with a margin setting mechanism is disclosed which has a printing head for writing information on a recording medium, a pulse motor for scan-driving the head, a detector for detecting the position of the head to put out a detection sign... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4314769 | Acoustical tone generator In an impact typewriter/printer using a daisy wheel typefont a stepper motor for rotating said daisy wheel for character selection purposes and microprocessor facilities for controlling said stepper motor, means are provided for generating tones signallin... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4273457 | Recording device for use with recording media of various widths A recording device is disclosed according to which writing information is recorded and the writing position in which the record head writes the information on a recording medium is detected. A discriminator determines the width of the recording medium loa... | 06/16/1981 |
| 3988744 | Recording device A recording device includes record means for recording information on a recording medium, a guide for feeding the recording medium to the record means, and means for moving the guide in accordance with the configuration of the recording medium.... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3981383 | Right hand margin control system A settable margin control switch is actuated when a movable carriage printer approaches the right hand margin. In the keyboard operating mode, an audible alarm is sounded and a predetermined number of character positions later, the printing of keyboard or... | 09/21/1976 |
