Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5989422 | Oil skimmer apparatus An oil skimmer of the endless belt type which is transportable as a unit is disclosed. The unit has an adjustment for adjusting the location of the axis of head pulley rotation and a floating tail pulley to assure accurate tracking of the belts on the pul... | 11/23/1999 |
| 4577749 | Frictional drive means and method for driving frictional rollers An improved friction roller including arcuate sections applied to an external surface thereof, the sections configured to receive and engage a magnetic flexible element such as a cable, and including a magnetic field generating coil means for attracting t... | 03/25/1986 |
| 3980173 | Precision moving platform A stable moving platform from which articles may be measured while in motion on this platform. An endless, moving silent chain type conveyor is modified to allow a center group of links to float relative to the pins which hold the links together. A mechan... | 09/14/1976 |
