Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6506033 | Miniature pump with ball-plate drive A miniature pump equipped with: a pump chamber communicated with a suction port by way of a check valve and communicated with a discharge port by way of another check valve; a driving portion for performing a pump function by increasing and decreasing a v... | 01/14/2003 |
| 4854783 | Vertical hydro-hoist with adjustable floats and method of operating the same A vertical hydro-hoist for conveying a slurry under pressure by using a liquid obtained from a chemical process as a driving liquid and method for operating the same, the hydro-hoist includes at least one feed chamber and a detector for detecting a relati... | 08/08/1989 |
