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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6816281 | Storage of labels in a printing device A printing device is described, predominantly for printing labels on a tape. The printing device has a display and input means for inputting characters to be printed by the printing device. Using the input means, a cursor on the display can be controlled. The printi... | 11/09/2004 |
| 5462371 | Indexing planetary gear train for a printer An indexing double planetary gear train forms a portion of a feed system for accurately advancing a print media sheet through a printer. The planetary gear train has primary and secondary rings coupled to a sun gear by a series of planet gear clusters. Ea... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5380106 | Single motor scanning-head printer An apparatus for a scanning-head printer in which a single motor is used to provide movement to a print head carriage and to advance the paper along a paper path. The single motor is coupled to the print head carriage to provide movement of the carriage b... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5018886 | Recording apparatus In a recording apparatus including a feed knob for manually feeding a recording sheet, a torque limiter is provided for preventing transmission of a torque more than a predetermined value from the feed knob to a recording sheet feeding portion.... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4958949 | Drive element for platens of typewriters or similar office machines The present invention relates to a drive element of typewriters or similar office machines where the movement of the platen is derived from the movement of the carriage. In the past numerous drive elements have been required in devices of this type, which... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4739316 | Structure of portable electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus such as a compact computer, a compact information processor, and a compact word processor comprises a pivotal cover carrying a display. The pivotal cover is closed on a keyboard of the electronic apparatus. The display is secured o... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4591882 | Printer electromagnetic clutch drive A printer such as a thermal printer includes a reversible motor, a paper feed driver angularly movable through a desired angle in response to operation of the motor, a paper feeder rotatable for feeding a sheet of paper, and an electromagnetic clutch oper... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4239405 | Form aligning knob In a printing device, including a drive means such as a stepping means and a driven shaft for advancing a form, a form aligning mechanism comprises a generally cylindrical hollow knob mounted concentrically with the driven shaft by a mounting means which ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4167345 | Printing apparatus with selectively movable printing heads Apparatus for printing characters on at least one data carrier comprising a printing head movable along the data carrier, a line advance device for feeding the data carrier substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the printing head, an ink r... | 09/11/1979 |
