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 |
| 6906354 | T-RAM cell having a buried vertical thyristor and a pseudo-TFT transfer gate and method for fabricating the same A T-RAM array having a plurality of T-RAM cells is presented where each T-RAM cell has dual devices. Each T-RAM cell is planar and has a buried vertical thyristor and a horizontally stacked pseudo-TFT transfer gate. The buried vertical thyristor is located beneath t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6270339 | Prayer candle device A prayer candle device includes a tubular body having a chamber provided therein, a consumable lighting element refillably disposed in the chamber including a wick mounted in the consumable lighting element, a holding means mounted in the chamber of the t... | 08/07/2001 |
| 5983886 | Storage container for railroad rack heating cord A storage container is used to hold a volume of a flammable liquid and a length of a cord that will be coated with the liquid, laid along a railroad rail, and ignited to heat the rail. The storage container is a closed receptacle that includes a cord driv... | 11/16/1999 |
