Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4893953 | Printer for normal line feed by a carriage return Disclosed is a printer having memory means for storing the vertical print position movement data so as to print a super-script or sub-script character. When the carriage is returned after printing in a nonstandard row position, the print position is moved... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4572686 | Apparatus for making labels An apparatus for forming labels from paper that has a label forming layer and a transfer carbon layer. The label layer has marks thereon having a known relationship to the intended edges of the label. A photoelectric detector activates a label cutting mec... | 02/25/1986 |
| 3952122 | Printing paper with a leader element attached to the end thereof The present invention has for its object a device for loading paper in a printing machine. The printing paper formed by a strip of white paper and a strip of carbon paper wound together bears a lead-in end made of thin cardboard, preferentially having the... | 04/20/1976 |
