...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 |
| 6783443 | Polishing machine for stone materials, having multiple grinding heads aligned on two oscillating and parallel beams with variable offset The polishing machine for stone materials comprises: a conveyor belt for the slabs or strips to be polished, a beam made to oscillate on at least two transverse, fixed frames above the said conveyor, at least one oscillating mechanism, a number of polishing heads, a... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6273799 | Polishing head for plate materials in granite, hard stone or ceramic with abrasive segments having continuous oscillating tangential motion A polishing head comprises a casing with abrasive segments attached thereto made to oscillate on radial shafts driven by a ring with vertical eccentric rotary motion. The ring is coupled to a first eccentric and to a crown gear is fixed to the casing whil... | 08/14/2001 |