...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6166742 | Wavelet-assisted volume ray casting This disclosure describes the use in telecommunications of a data processing technique for accelerating the calculation of data points in volume image rendering using volume ray casting, to create 3-dimensional data sets of network operational characteris... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6154212 | Method and apparatus for constructing network interfaces A network interface includes a network view portion developed using a low-level, high-performance programming language such as C++, and a user interface portion developed using a higher level scripted programming language such as Tcl/Tk. Variables in the ... | 11/28/2000 |