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 |
| 6418755 | Glass melting apparatus and method including exhausting the furnace atmosphere by removal of a heating element A system for melting and delivering glass to a work area such as spinners for making fiberglass includes a melter with heaters so arranged that the "hot spot" in the molten glass is located away from the walls and corrosion sensitive parts so that the var... | 07/16/2002 |
| 5759027 | Device for a ring section furnace A ring section furnace for the calcination of carbon bodies, has a number of chambers (K1-Kn) in which the carbon bodies are placed when performing the calcination process. During the calcination process, a part of the furnace comprising a minor number of... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5078595 | Carbon flue wall and method of making A flue wall, and method for making same, adapted to be readily assembly with like walls and other components to form a battery of heated comparments in a pit in which carbon anodes, such as used in the manufacture of alumina are baked. The wall includes u... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4859175 | Apparatus and process for optimizing combustion in chamber-type furnaces for baking carbonaceous blocks The invention concerns a process and an apparatus for optimizing combustion in a furnace which has open chambers, referred to as a ring furnace, for the baking of carbonaceous blocks, the furnace comprising a plurality of preheating, baking and cooling ch... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4687439 | Furnaces for baking anodes An improved exhaust port plug is provided for use in a baking furnace for the baking of anodes for use in an electrolytic reduction cell. The improved exhaust port plug comprises a cylindrical metal shell having a diameter approximating the diameter of th... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4371333 | Device and process for operating an open baking furnace for manufacturing carbon-bearing, shaped bodies Device and process for operation of open baking furnaces, in particular such ring-type furnaces for manufacturing anodes for the aluminum electrolytic process, are such that for each so called fire the sealing chamber and/or chamber in the cooling zone ca... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4349332 | Crown vents A combination comprising a recuperator, a crown vent and a furnace having a crown vent opening is supplied, the crown vent extending upwardly into the recuperator and downwardly beneath the wall of the crown vent opening.... | 09/14/1982 |
| 3994670 | Furnace heating This invention relates to a U-fired soaking pit in which an auxiliary burner 4, e.g. a tunnel burner, is located below the main burner 3 to supplement the heat flow and heat transfer therefrom. The auxiliary burner is mounted between twin exhaust flue 5,6... | 11/30/1976 |
