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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7794282 | Lamp socket adapter/converter A lamp socket adapter/converter has a main body with a medium screw-base male lamp connector on a lower end and a mount on an upper end. Standoffs extend from the mount parallel and spaced from a central axis. A printed circuit board has holes engaged with medial po... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7635284 | Programmable appliance controller An apparatus and method for control of an alternating current appliance comprising locating in either an appliance plug or a plug-in module programmable control means and providing a plurality of electrical connections between the programmable control means and prog... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7125159 | Non-defeatable fluorescent adapter for incandescent fixture A fluorescent adapter having a housing including a tip contact compatible with an electrical socket, a threaded ring contact compatible with the electrical socket, the ring contact surrounding the housing and rotatable with the housing when the housing is rotated in... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7097508 | Compact fluorescent lampholder A compact fluorescent lampholder includes a fundamental base and a holder body combined together. The fundamental base is provided with a female thread post inside. Electric current is transmitted to two conducting members beside the female threaded post. The holder... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6932493 | Fluorescent light tube adaptor An adaptor (2) for fitting a fluorescent tube (80) to a fluorescent tube housing. The adaptor includes a body portion (6) for attachment to an end of the fluorescent tube (80), a pair of contact and arm assemblies and a lid portion (8 | 08/23/2005 |
| 6863573 | 120 volt to 12 volt MR16 adapter The MR16 lamp adapter is an apparatus which allows for one to convert their 120 volt AC lighting device to a lower voltage AC light device by attachment of an Edison lamp base on one end of the apparatus within the Edison socket of the AC light device, the apparatus... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6839428 | Sealed terminating device A terminating device for interconnecting service provider wiring with subscriber wiring includes a base, a customer bridge, a removable cover and insulation displacement contacts for terminating the service provider wiring and the subscriber wiring. The insulation d... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6582253 | Lock-in compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) adaptor A lock-in compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) adaptor that would be screwed into the socket of a conventional incandescent lamp assembly. It has an adaptor casing whose respective top wall, bottom wall and outer side walls form an electrical components chamber... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6268687 | Base for compact fluorescent lamp The invention relates to a base for compact fluorescent lamp comprising a body and a cap which are fixed to each other along an outside connection surface, a discharge tube is fixed in the cap and metal pins ensuring a releasable electrical contact are fi... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6045399 | Combination outlet strip A combination outlet strip includes a casing and a plurality of outlet strip units connected in series and mounted in the casing, each outlet strip unit having a bottom shell, a top shell covered on the bottom shell, and three bus bars mounted in between ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5971807 | Lamp receptacle assembly A lamp receptacle assembly has a hollow main body, a screw base disposed on a bottom of the main body, and a positioning plate inserted in the main body. The main body has two parallel slide rails, a through hole, an outer annular body, an inner annular b... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5634820 | Fluorescent light adaptor module A module including a starter assembly and a fluorescent tube assembly is provided to allow the use of fluorescent lighting in a standard incandescent light bulb socket. The starter assembly is coupled to the tube assembly using a coupling system that incl... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5569981 | Ballast device for compact fluorescent lamp A ballast device for a compact fluorescent lamp, comprises a ballast case including upper case 10-1, a lower case, and PCBs. The upper case has a incandescent lamp base 19 and the lower case has a socket substrate 11 having a compact fluorescent lamp sock... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5545950 | Adapter, fitting into an incandescent socket, for receiving a compact flourescent lamp A ballast device for a compact fluorescent lamp with: a ballast case including an outer case (17) and a socket substrate (11), the outer case having an incandescent lamp base (19) at its top portion, the substrate having a compact fluorescent lamp socket ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5428515 | Electric lighting assembly An electric lighting assembly including; a protective holder formed on the top with two holes and at two opposite sides with depending lugs, said lugs having a hook portion at the lower end, a ring contact secured on the top of said protective holder, sai... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5320548 | Screw-in adapter for single-based low-pressure discharge lamp, especially compact fluorescent lamp To permit use of a compact fluorescent lamp having a base with projecting rminal pins (9) in an ordinary standard Edison lightbulb socket, an adapter has a lightbulb thread (2) and the housing body includes a reception well (5) to receive a locating plate... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5286216 | Retrofit system for energy efficient lighting A retrofit system for dedicated an Edison-type socket to receive only energy efficient lighting components. The retrofit system includes a power unit, an energy efficient lamp and an adapter. The adapter is arranged to be readily installed in the socket, ... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5147988 | Switching electrical receptacle A switching electrical receptacle includes a fixed set of female contacts mounted to be connected to electric power lines. A housing supports a plurality of sliding contacts of substantially cylindrical symmetry disposed parallel to an axis. The housing c... | 09/15/1992 |
| 4936789 | Method and apparatus for preventing the theft of a fluorescent lamp and ballast transformer An adaptor (12) includes a threaded portion (14) intended to be screwed into a conventional lamp socket (18) to replace a standard incandescent light bulb. The adaptor includes spring clips (38) that are operative to prevent removal of terminal pins (36) ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4688874 | Arrangement in electric discharge lamps An adapter for connecting a compact gas vapor electric-discharge lamp to standardized incandescent lamp fittings. The adapter (11) comprises a coupling housing (12), a holder part (13) for the base (14) of the lamp, and a conventional incandescent-lamp ba... | 08/25/1987 |
| 3977746 | Outlet device An electric outlet device has spaced contacts for a pronged plug within a housing which are located in a plane at right angles to a threaded plug depending from the housing. A socket is provided above the spaced contacts into which the threaded end of a l... | 08/31/1976 |
