This had been achieved much earlier for lead and copper as well as for producing pig iron in a blast furnace, but the second stage in the production of bar iron depended on the use of potting and stamping ( for which a patent expired in 1786 ) or puddling ( patented by Henry Cort in 1784 ).

The second ( about MIPS patent 4814976 for handling unaligned memory access ) was protracted, hurt both companies ' business, and culminated in MIPS Technologies giving Lexra a free license and a large cash payment.

Its regulator's first stage and second stage had to be separated to avoid the Cousteau-Gagnan patent, which protected the double-hose scuba.

On 17 February 1332, Philip VI bestowed it on his son John the Good, who, when he became king in turn ( 22 August 1350 ), gave the countship to his second son Louis I, raising it to a duchy in the peerage of France by letters patent of 25 October 1360.

This was accommodated by Perthe's Almanach de Gotha ( which categorised princely families by rank until it ceased publication after 1944 ) by inserting the offspring of such marriages in the third section of the almanac under entries denoted by a symbol ( a dot within a circle ) that " signifies some princely houses which, possessing no specific princely patent, have passed from the first part, A, or from the second part into the third part in virtue of special agreements.

Shortly after this birth, and with a second model already built, Murdoch took steps to patent his steam locomotive.

Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world.

According to the letters patent of 21 June 1553, Catherine was to be second in the line of succession behind her sister and her heirs male.

During this time, he developed machines for pre-spinning and in 1775 took out his second patent.

This Richard Boyle had already succeeded his younger brother as second Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky according to a special remainder in the letters patent.

Arkwright's second patent ( of 1775 ) for his carding machine was subsequently declared invalid, because it lacked originality.

* — second fine tuners and saddle patent ;

' A second account is that Johnson emerged as the ' Victor ' from the lengthy and costly patent litigations involving Berliner and Frank Seaman's Zonophone.

The following year a second boat made excursions, and in 1790 a third boat ran a series of trials on the Delaware River before patent disputes dissuaded Fitch from continuing.

On August 24, three detailed patent applications were filed: the first for a " Kinetographic Camera ", the second for the camera as well, and the third for an " Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects ".

The patent stated that the second peerage was in honour of the great services he had rendered, especially in promoting the abolition of slavery.

In this patent there is a mention to an added purpose of the second wire returning through the center of the toroid, claiming that it helps reject interference from electrical fields present in the environment.

Berkeley had not transferred his proprietary rights to this group, and the exact nature of the rights James had given both Berkeley and Carteret was disputed, in part because James believed that the second patent granted to him in 1674 overrode the earlier grants he had made to Berkeley and Carteret.

The town is named after Catherine Pauling, the daughter of Henry Beekman, who held the second largest land patent in the county.

When a decision was reached in favor of Eastchester, England's Queen Anne granted a second patent in 1708.

This patent recommended a single glass ampoule that is suspended in a second substance, that when broken and mixed together, provide the chemiluminescent light.

On 12 June 1897 this knife featuring a second smaller cutting blade, corkscrew and wood fiber grips was originally registered with the patent office as The Officer's and Sports Knife, though it was never part of a military contract.

Quoted directly from the Snakeboard patent Abstract and Claims: " This invention relates to a skateboard comprising two footboards each of the footboards including a foot platform and wheel-set which carries two wheels in axial alignment fixed to the underside of the platform, a spacer element for holding the footboards in a spaced relationship and a pivot arrangement having a vertical pivot axis connecting each footboard to the spacer element to enable both footboards to pivot relatively to the spacer element, each wheel set including a wheel body, wheel axles which are fixed to and project from the opposite sides of the body with the wheels being journaled for rotation on the axles, a first pivot pin being attached to the wheel body with its axis in a vertical direction, a support member on the wheel body, a second pivot pin pivotally connecting the foot platform to the support member with its pivot axis normal to the wheel axis, and resilient suspension means between the support member and the underside of the foot platform for holding the platform horizontal, said pivot arrangement being pivotally engaged with the first pivot pin.

Puckle demonstrated two versions of the basic design: one, intended for use against Christian enemies, fired conventional round bullets, while the second variant, designed to be used against the Muslim Turks, fired square bullets, designed by Kyle Tunis, which were considered to be more damaging and would, according to its patent, convince the Turks of the " benefits of Christian civilization.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.