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Inventions submitted to the U.K. Patent Office by Arthur Paul Pedrick, 1962-1976: “Reducing the Tendency of a Golf Ball to Slice or Hook by Electrostatic Forces” “Speed-of-Light-Regulated Clock” “Internally Explosive Nail” “Automobiles Driven From the Back Seat” “Using Warning Lights to Prevent Motorists Bashing Into and Killing Each Other, Particularly on High-Speed Motorways in Fog” “Improvements in the Irrigation of ‘Deserts’ by Snow Piped From Polar Regions for the Purpose of Minimising the Impending World Famine” In all, Pedrick filed 162 patents in that period. The man himself is a bit of a mystery, but it appears that his principal...
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