From 18th century automatons that could write a full letter to the player pianos featured in every saloon, mechanical inventions have fascinated us for centuries. Yet the smallest pieces can garner ...

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An underwater ship -- A siphon for raising water -- Lifting weights by water, and a portable siphon -- Construction of sluices to raise ships to any height -- A machine worked by fire which can throw ...

Counsel from Asia discuss the disparities in patentability standards for incremental inventions and the need for consistency in IP office practice Patent applicants in mature technology industries are ...

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THE revolution which is in full swing might be 1 dated for Great Britain from mechanical inventions of the latter part of the eighteenth century. She has dealt with scientific and mechanical changes ...

IN his Norman Lockyer lecture, delivered to the British Science Guild on Nov. 24, Dr. H. H. Dale dealt with the part which biology and biologists should play in modern civilisation. It is a ...

Rick Van Anken, who blows the snow from some of the 250 miles of sidewalks in Bloomington, Minn., used to worry about being injured if his vehicle hit a quarter-inch irregularity in the sidewalk and ...