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 |
| 7184895 | Method and system of non-intrusively monitoring the mixture ratio of a gas mixture having at least two components A method and system of non-intrusively monitoring the proportion of a component in a gaseous mixture having at least two components and contained in an electrical switchgear enclosure includes measuring the pressure, the temperature, and the density of the gas mixtu... | 02/27/2007 |
| 5648917 | Self-monitoring circuit, especially for electrical equipment, and in particular for a high tension SF6 circuit breaker A circuit for automatically monitoring equipment, including a plurality of transducers for measuring operating parameters and providing data to a multiprocessor system comprising stations interconnected by a local network and constituting a distributed da... | 07/15/1997 |