Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360289 | Apparatus for milling a surface The present invention provides an apparatus for use on a roof or the like which incorporates an insulation material. The invention allows workers to shave the insulating layer to smooth, remove high spots, or create slopes, valleys or sumps, in order to achieve posi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7037531 | Energy bar An energy multi-saccharide food product including: a saccharide component including 5 to 20% w/w galactose; to 25% w/w creatine; and optional further ingredients selected from: carbohydrate, fibre ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6957934 | Wallboard rasp A wallboard rasp having an expanded metal blade mounted to a molded plastic handle. The handle is configured with a downwardly-opening receiving groove for receipt of an upwardly-curved perimeter portion of the blade. Sections of the blade's perimeter may be crimped... | 10/25/2005 |
| 5851090 | Reconditioning planing tool A planing device for planing a first, movable surface of a machine is set forth. The machine includes a second surface from which the first, movable surface can be retracted. The planing device includes a base and a planing assembly. The base is slidably ... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5626181 | Continuous steel casting plant with an in- or off-line system to deburr oxy-gas cutting beards and cutting beads at strands, slabs, and blooms Apparatus for removing burrs from flame cut steel slabs including multiple deburring pistons extendably mounted in a piston body. Pressurization of the piston body causes extension of the pistons, while rotation of the piston body positions the deburring ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5417262 | Device for cutting thin boards A device for cutting thin boards from cants includes a blade set in the device which is fastened to a blade holder which is mounted on a blade support. The blade support can be installed as an interchangeable component in a cutting table and clamped in th... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5305506 | Formation of an element for an article of jewellery The invention relates to the formation of an element, called an "illusion", for an article of jewelry, including a method for forming an illusion, and a device for forming an illusion. First and second substantially parallel grooves are formed in an opera... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5192175 | Burr trimming method and apparatus for machining shock testing pieces, and automatic machining system thereof Burrs which have formed on a testing piece during machining a groove or notch in the testing piece can be removed by a method of using machining wherein a cutting edge is pressed onto a surface of the testing piece where the burrs have formed, and is move... | 03/09/1993 |
| 4650380 | Wire shaving apparatus A wire shaving apparatus for shaving a periphery of wire, bar or rod stock, including structure defining a product flow path between an input and an output and a plurality of shaving stations spaced along said flow path for scrapingly engaging product con... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4626153 | Draw-knife A draw-knife for producing keyways and for profiling workpiece bores comprising a knife bar whose head portion carries a cutting member which comprises two knife plates arranged side by side in the same plane and being coaxially adjustable, and an immobil... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4447181 | Tool holder A tool holder (10) for mounting a tool T to a carrier (11), base member (12) and a tool holding member (13) secured together to form the tool holder unit. Confronting surfaces (19,20) of the tool holder members are disposed in facial engagement about the ... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4179779 | Hand plane Planing tool includes an elongated frame having a lower planer surface for supporting an elongated planer blade along its entire length. The elongated frame has a relatively fixed downwardly and outwardly beveled flange at the forward end thereof for enga... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4138926 | Apparatus for removing machining burrs Disclosed is a deburring apparatus having a tool holder mounted on a mechanism which moves the holder along a path corresponding to the nominal contour of the edge of a cut such as a groove or slot in the work piece to be deburred. A deburring tool is mou... | 02/13/1979 |
