...that Thomas Edison's patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, it took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent -- finally awarded in 1988!
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| 5150633 | Shifting arrangement for a motor vehicle transmission A shifting arrangement for a motor vehicle transmission has a selector lever which, for preselecting automatic gear positions, can be swivelled in a first shifting channel and, by way of a transverse channel, can be changed-over into a second shifting cha... | 09/29/1992 |