Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7213416 | Glass base material producing device A glass base material manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a glass base material comprising: a plurality burners, arranged in a row at a predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction of a starting base material of the glass base material, for forming... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6945079 | Optical fiber drawing system for non-contact control of polarization mode dispersion of optical fiber Disclosed is a system for drawing an optical fiber for controlling polarization mode dispersion. A furnace is provided for uniformly heating an optical fiber preform in the drawing system mounted to an optical fiber draw tower. The furnace comprises: (a) a main body... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6938442 | Method for elongating a cylinder of silica glass According to a prior art method for producing a cylindrical component comprised of silica glass, a cylinder comprised of a softened silica glass mass is drawn in a predetermined drawing direction along a drawing axis by means of a drawing device which acts upon said... | 09/06/2005 |
| 5931984 | Device for drawing down an optical fiber preform A device for drawing down an optical fiber preform (2) connected at one end to a feed rod (3) having an equal or smaller diameter. A chamber (11) in which the preform is drawn has an upper part (11A) with an opening (12). The opening engages the preform t... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5674306 | Method and apparatus for drawing glass preform for optical fiber A glass preform for an optical fiber is effectively drawn by connecting dummy rods to both ends of the glass preform and connecting the dummy rods to fitting members.... | 10/07/1997 |
| 4121920 | Glass fiber drawing machine A glass drawing machine which has a movable oven that permits glass fibers to be drawn to size within a tolerance of &#b1; 0.00025 inch.... | 10/24/1978 |
| 3997307 | Method and apparatus for making glass fibers utilizing an oscillating spinner Attempts have been made by the prior art to oscillate a veil of air entrained centrifugally spun fibers back and forth across a moving collecting surface to build a layer of fibers having uniform thickness and density. The present invention accomplishes t... | 12/14/1976 |
