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unusual facts about Inventions



Augustus Applegath

Inventions included methods of silk printing, a new method of printing banknotes and the printing machines on which The Times Newspaper was printed in the mid nineteenth century - the 'Four-Feeder' printed 5000 copies of the paper per hour, and from 1848 the rotary eight-feeder printed 8000 copies per hour.

Dbx, Inc.

The most important inventions of David Blackmer and dbx are the dbx voltage controlled amplifier or VCA and the dbx RMS detector.

Doctor Sivana

Laughed out of society by people who called his inventions impractical and his science a fake, Sivana took his family to the planet Venus in a spaceship he had invented, where he stayed until his children were grown, and Earth not as backward as when he left it; since his children were adults by 1940, his departure from Earth would implicitly have been the late 1910s or early 1920s.

Dumbo the Flying Elephant

In a featurette of the ride, as shown on the DVD release of the film's 70th anniversary, the head Disney Imagineer, Tony Baxter even noted that the new ride looked like one of Gepetto's inventions.

Edward J. Giorgianni

Among his inventions are the digital color-encoding methods used on many commercial imaging systems, including the Photo CD System.

Emily Ludolf

Ludolf drew media attention after the show was broadcast after having confounded the judges, Gregg Wallace and John Torode, with her own strange culinary inventions, which have later been published in various newspaper and magazine articles.

Ethnosymbolism

Nonetheless, in his later works, he agrees with most modernists including Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm that national identity had been an invention, and the only remaining disagreement would be 'over the antiquity of some inventions and the repertory of pre-existing group characteristics that inventors were able to draw upon'.

Eugene O'Conor

O'Conor had 'several useful inventions patented' and lectured on his opinion that Francis Bacon (Baconian theory) was the author of Shakespeare's plays.

Francis Barber Ogden

These inventions culminated in that of screw-propelled steamboats - for these, Ericsson's rival Francis Pettit Smith obtained the British patent but Ogden, on Ericsson's behalf, obtained the American patent.

Game of the Goose

In Roger Martin du Gard's novel The Thibaults, Monsieur Chasle, the proprietor of a store that markets various inventions, mentions that one of his designers has created a portable jeu de l'Oie des Alliés imprinted with scenes from the Battle of the Marne, Douaumont, and other battles of World War I.

George Bull

His last work on the trinitarian question, entitled Primitiva et Apostolica Traditio, was directed against the opinion of Daniel Zwicker, that Christ's divinity, preexistence, and incarnation were inventions of early heretics.

Grant procedure before the European Patent Office

For example, in the United Kingdom, it used to be required to obtain clearance for all inventions but now it is only prohibited for a UK resident to file an overseas patent application for inventions in certain sensitive technical areas without obtaining clearance through the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office first.

Gustav Guanella

While he did consulting work for various companies such as Philips, AEG and BBC, he came up with inventions resulting in 40 patent application before entering employment at BBC.

Hebei Normal University

Some of the achievements produced from these programs, which published in ScienceThe Plant CellInventions, MathematicalAdvances in Mathematics, Astrophysical Journal are first-level both home and abroad.

Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?

The song refers to one of Marconi's then-new radio-oriented inventions, the Wireless Telephone, which became publicly available that year.

Henry Bishop Horton

Henry Bishop Horton (1 September 1819 Winchester, Connecticut - 3 December 1885 Ithaca, New York) was an American inventor, remembered chiefly for his inventions in automatic music players and clock-making.

Hieronymus machine

The inventions of Hieronymus were championed by Astounding Science Fiction editor John W. Campbell in late 1950s and early 1960s editorials.

History of the United States Senate

Sir Henry Maine called the Senate "the only thoroughly successful institution which has been established since the tide of modern democracy began to run." William Ewart Gladstone said the Senate was "the most remarkable of all the inventions of modern politics." (Ibid, 23)

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

He also edited the The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions, written by Kenji Kawakami.

Hugo Riemann

One of his inventions, the Tonnetz, is the predecessor of the modern idea of pitch spaces, and is a fundamental analytical tool of the current field of neo-Riemannian theory.

IBM Research

IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.

Inventions and Their Management

Second and third editions were issued by the same publisher in 1947 and 1951, and the work was revised and reissued under the new title Inventions, Patents, and Their Management by Van Nostrand in 1959.

James May's 20th Century

The show features the eponymous James May, exhibiting and discussing the implications of many of the major advances and inventions made during this period.

Janese Swanson

Her toy inventions include the Snoop Stopper Keepsake Box, Me-Mail Message Center, Zap N’ Lock Journal, Yak Bak, and Swap-It Locket.

Jem Stansfield

Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).

John Gorrie State Museum

The museum features exhibits about Apalachicola and the life and inventions of John Gorrie.

Joris Putman

He has developed his own programme for young people "Green Dream District" about new sustainable inventions which will show on "National Geographic" Youth from January 2009.

Les Percussions de Strasbourg

They have premiered over 250 works of contemporary classical music, including Iannis Xenakis's Pléïades, Inventions by Miloslav Kabeláč and Karlheinz Stockhausen's Musik im Bauch.

Live in Reykjavik

Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson collaborated with one of his inventions, the P-Orridgemeter, a device especially designed for this project.

Magnus Scharmanoff

Bonk Business Inc. is a fictional corporation created in 1988 by Finnish artist and sculptor Alvar Gullichsen, which creates whimsical inventions such as LBH (Localized Black Holes), ADS (Advanced Disinformation Systems), Cosmic Therapy and Defunctioned Machinery.

Marcellus Bailey

Marcellus Bailey (1840 – January 16, 1921) was an American patent attorney who, with Anthony Pollok, helped prepare Alexander Graham Bell's patents for the telephone and related inventions.

New Scientist

Ariadne, which later moved to Nature, commented every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of (fictitious) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the (fictitious) DREADCO corporation.

Old Patent Office Building

United States patent law required inventors to submit scale models of their inventions, which were retained by the Patent Office and required housing.

Originality

In addition to being original, inventions submitted for a patent must also be useful and nonobvious.

Paul Kirchner

The first, Forgotten Fads and Fabulous Flops, inspired an episode of The History Channel's Modern Marvels, "Failed Inventions", in which Kirchner is featured.

Periaktos

This excellent article shows periaktoi inventions by Sabbatini, Furttenbach and Danti, with QuickTime animations and descriptions.

Raymond Yiu

Three of his works have been shortlisted by the spnm: Tranced Summer-Night, Tranced and Calendar of Tolerable Inventions from Around the World, which was performed by Lontano in 2002, and was subsequently broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

Robert Yonover

HARDCORE INVENTING: Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit from your Inventions Dr. Robert Yonover and Ellie Crowe (2009) 7

Ronco

Fi-Tek VII changed its name to Ronco, and maintained the right of first look for Popeil's future inventions.

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

Before he smashes the chair, Homer notices a poster of Edison's which shows he had fewer inventions than Leonardo da Vinci.

Urbana, New York

The town and its village, Hammondsport, is one of the cradles of aviation, due to the inventions of Glenn Curtiss.

Valladolid Science Museum

Besides an area dedicated to Castilla y León inventions and inventors there is an eleven metre high 80 kg Foucault Pendulum as well as a display of Louis Pasteur's work improving wine production.

Vernier throttle

Like many other inventions that bear his name, the Vernier throttle is based on the work of mathematician Pierre Vernier.

Welrod

This document reveals that the inventor of the Welrod was Major Hugh Reeves who was also responsible for the Sleeve gun (similar to the Welrod, though single shot and intended to be concealed up a sleeve) and several other important inventions.

Wild Grinders

He is also the MacGyver of the group and tech expert so that whenever Lil' Rob's schemes require super complicated, technical solutions, Goggles comes to the rescue with awesome contraptions and inventions.

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

This education also included (parts of) the French Suites, (Two-Part) Inventions, (Three-Part) Sinfonias (popularly known as "Inventions"), the first volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and the six Trio Sonatas for organ.

William Bell Wait

He received the John Scott most deserving Medal from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia in 1900 for his inventions.


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