Did You Know...
...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 |
| 7321090 | Automatic musical instrument An automatic musical instrument includes a tine, a rotor, an actuatable arm, and a rotatable cam. The tine emits an audible sound when vibrated. The rotor has plural picks extending radially outwardly therefrom, and the actuatable arm is disposed to displace the rot... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7012178 | Compact musical instrument equipped with automatic player A music box includes a daisy reed wheel having reeds radially projecting from a hub for generating tones and solenoid-operated player's fingers arranged around the daisy reed wheel; the tips of the reeds are widely spaced from one another by virtue of the radial arr... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6936757 | Performance apparatus There is provided a performance apparatus that is capable of reducing mechanical noise by a simple construction. Rotary picks are disposed in the vicinity of and in association with respective ends of a plurality of reeds, and four driving nails are formed integrall... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6204439 | Transmission mechanism for music box ornament A transmission mechanism for a music box having a plurality of ornaments coupled thereon includes a driving mechanism having a rotary wheel with an eccentric rod and disposed in the music box, a first support mounted in the music box and having a through ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6013867 | Disk music box A disk music box comprises a center shaft, around which a disk is rotated by being engaged with the center shaft. The disk has a plurality of engagement portions which correspond to a music selection. A reed portion is included which comprises a comb havi... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5973240 | Music Box A music box comprises a base disc which has a plurality of projections corresponding to a music piece on its surface, a plurality of pin wheels which are individually rotated by contacting one of a plurality of such projections while the disc moves, a ree... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5962796 | Disc music box A disc music box for playing a melody comprises a base (21); a music box disc (1) having a plurality of engaging drive parts (3) and a drive hole (4); a plurality of music box petals (27a) provided on the base; a plurality of star wheels (26) each guided ... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5955687 | Disc music box, information disc therefor, and trick timepiece with disc music box A disc music box for playing a melody, which comprises a disc (3) having a plurality of engaging parts (4, 40), a motor (M) for rotating the disc, and star wheels (12) guided and rotated by the engaging parts of the rotating disc for plucking music box pe... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5945612 | Music crystal ball structure capable of rotating in alternating directions A music crystal ball structure capable of rotating in alternating directions. A music bell serves as a power source for transmitting power to a mutilated gear which further transmitting the power to a gear member having inner circumferential teeth and out... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5864519 | Music box timepiece A music box timepiece A having a clock body 10 with a disc music box instrument 20 to which a music box disc 1 is fitted, characterized in that a space 11 in which a spare music box disc 1' can be housed is formed within the clock body, and when the spare... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5418319 | Music box A music box comprising a blower unit and a flute unit. Each flute in the flute unit includes a mouth and a wind inlet hole for feeding air to the mouth and the wind inlet holes for feeding air to the flute are selectively opened/closed to produce a desire... | 05/23/1995 |
