Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7130161 | Magnetic head having marker layer, and tape-medium reading and writing apparatus A magnetic head includes a first shielding layer, a second shielding layer, an MR element, and a marker layer. The layers and the element are exposed from a medium sliding surface while being inclined at an azimuth angle. A major part of the marker layer is disposed... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6632517 | Low field magnetoresistance of intergranular tunneling in field-aligned chromium dioxide powders The magnetic and magnetotransport properties of field-aligned single domain half-metallic CrO2 powders have been studied. Needle-shaped nanoparticles of CrO2 have been aligned in a strong magnetic field. The aligned powder sample sho... | 10/14/2003 |
