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The essential assets of Hughes Tool Company, as it was renamed, were August 10, 1909, patents for his dual-cone rotary drill bit. The fees for licensing this technology were the basis of Hughes Tool's revenues, and by 1914 the dual-cone roller bit was used in eleven U.S. states and in thirteen foreign countries.
The company was established in December 1908 [1] as Sharp-Hughes Tool Company when Howard R. Hughes Sr. patented a roller cutter bit that dramatically improved the rotary drilling process for oil drilling rigs. He partnered with longtime business associate Walter Benona Sharp to manufacture and market the bit.
The Nimatron was exhibited in the second half of the New York World's Fair in 1940. The game was a success with fair-goers, with Condon later stating that it was played over 100,000 times. [3] The machine included counters for how many times it was played and how many times the player had won, with the Nimatron winning 90,000 times. [3]
A pneumatic die grinder with a right-angle head. A cordless battery-powered rotary tool used for light tasks. A die grinder or rotary tool is a handheld power tool and multitool used for grinding, sanding, honing, polishing, or machining material (typically metal, but also plastic or wood).
A rotary hammer, also called rotary hammer drill [1] is a power tool that can perform heavy-duty tasks such as drilling and chiseling hard materials. [2] It is similar to a hammer drill in that it also pounds the drill bit in and out while it is spinning. However, rotary hammers use a piston mechanism instead of a special clutch.
A magnetic drill is a portable machine for drilling holes in large and heavy workpieces which are difficult to move or bring to a stationary conventional drilling machine. It has a magnetic base and drills holes with the help of cutting tools like annular cutters (broach cutters) or with twist drill bits. There are various types depending on ...
The National Videogame Museum is a video game museum about the history of video games and the video game industry, located in Frisco, Texas.Opened in 2016, the museum includes classic video game arcade machines in an arcade setting, games on different video game consoles in a living room setting, games on historic computers, exhibits on the history of the industry, artifacts and memorabilia ...
The early history of video games, therefore, covers the period of time between the first interactive electronic game with an electronic display in 1947, the first true video games in the early 1950s, and the rise of early arcade video games in the 1970s (Pong and the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox ...