Inventor

William A Goddard

Patents indexed

Year range

1970

Associated with

Years active

1970

Total patents

Most recent

1970

Frequent collaborator

John J Lynott

Domains

semiconductorsmechanical

Activity by decade

1970s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1970

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How Early Hard Disk Drives Accessed Data Quickly

A 1970 patent detailing a mechanical system for moving read-write heads across magnetic disks to retrieve stored information rapidly.

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