Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299638 | Combined heat and power system A combined heat and power system that may be ON/OFF controlled by the thermal load requirements for the system and/or operated at or below atmospheric pressure. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 6887609 | Fuel cell system and method for operating the fuel cell system A fuel cell system and method of operation in which the fuel cell system has a fuel cell unit with anode and cathode, a media flow path for supplying substantially pure hydrogen to the anode, a media flow path for the cathode, an anode exhaust-gas flow path and a ca... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6158207 | Multiple gas turbine engines to normalize maintenance intervals The present invention providing a control and method having for starting and stopping gas turbine engines in a set of such engines controlled from a master controller. Incorporated in the master controller is a predetermined optimum life schedule selected... | 12/12/2000 |
| 4532761 | Load control system and method of combined cycle turbine plants In a combined cycle turbine plant in which a plurality of single shaft type combined cycle systems are combined into a plant, when a set load is to be decreased, the loads of all running shafts are decreased equally until a predetermined load of the unit ... | 08/06/1985 |