Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6311424 | Telescope for weapons and other applications A telescope apparatus and system for rifles and other weapons comprising a forward portion, consisting of a forward objective lens fixed on the front end of a firing line light tube, held firmly to the weapon by slip springs in which the forward light tub... | 11/06/2001 |
| 5825948 | Fiber optic sensor for spatially separated elements in a system A fiber optic sensor employs tapered fiber optics in a tapered gun barrel. The fiber optic sensor employs a single-mode optical fiber, a light source supplying light to the single-mode fiber and at least one tapered dual-mode optical fiber secured to the ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 4961369 | Gun laying A gun laying aid for determining the offset in the bearing of a gun due to trunnion tilt. The gun laying aid has a support member on which are rotatably mounted a bearing indicator member and a reference member. A correction indicator is pivotally mounted... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4062267 | Apparatus for conducting firing Apparatus for conducting firing adapted to the aiming of a cannon movable bearing and in elevation around a turning axis as a function of aim values given by a firing table corresponding to the cannon and other parameters of firing. The apparatus compris... | 12/13/1977 |
