With over US $ 20 million in venture capital invested, Finial was faced with a Morton's fork: to forge ahead with a selling price that was too high for most consumers, or to gamble on going into mass production at a much lower price and hoping the market would lower costs.

; Finial: A decorative cap to the top of a newel post, particularly at the end of the balustrade.

A non-functioning mock-up of the proposed Finial turntable was shown at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), generating much interest and a fair amount of mystery, since the patents had not yet been granted and the details had to be kept secret.

The first working model, the Finial LT-1 ( Laser Turntable-1 ), was completed in time for the 1986 CES.

Image: Ammortissement. XIIIe. siecle. png | Finial Illustration by Viollet-le-Duc, 1856

In 1983 he and fellow Stanford electrical engineer Robert E. Stoddard founded Finial Technology to develop and market a laser turntable, raising $ 7 million in venture capital.

The Finial turntable never went into production.

Finial is also a term given to straw animals at the ridges of thatched cottages.

Finial maker is the term given to the artisan that makes the straw animal.

Image: Copper_Finial. jpg | Copper Finial

Image: Finial-Pineapple. jpg | Finial Pineapple

* The Finial is the top piece of the pike or lance which the colour / guidon / standard is attached to.

Warham: Finial Publishing.

Image: Victoria-Monument-Gray-Sky. jpg | Finial figure of Victory, Victoria Memorial

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

He beat the air with his stick, and it fell from his claws and clattered on the stones.

When on land, they mostly spend the day hidden under stones or logs or in dense vegetation, emerging in the evening and night to forage for worms, insects and other invertebrates.

Many woodland salamanders lay clutches of eggs under dead logs or stones on land.

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

The Babylonian star-figure appears on entitlement stones and cylinder seals from the second millennium.

It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms.

As the initial spelling on stones was ' Abrasax ' ( Αβρασαξ ), the spelling of ' Abraxas ' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration.

By a probably euphonic inversion the translator of Irenaeus and the other Latin authors have Abraxas, which is found in the magical papyri, and even, though most sparingly, on engraved stones.

: on the very stones and rocks

For example, in his commentary, De mineralibus, he refers to the power of stones, but does not elaborate on what these powers might be.

The double-burh blocked passage on the river, forcing Viking ships to navigate under a garrisoned bridge lined with men armed with stones, spears, or arrows.

His tomb still exists on the plateau between Lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis — a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.

116 .</ ref > When air condenses it becomes visible, as mist and then rain and other forms of precipitation, and as the condensed air cools Anaximenes supposed that it went on to form earth and ultimately stones.

A bed of nalca or maqui leaves is arranged on top of the stones, and the following ingredients are added, in turn, on top of this bed: beef, lamb, pork, chicken, chorizos ( pork sausages ), potatoes, sweet potatoes, apples and holed squashes filled with cheese, cream and peas.

It is found on Abraxas stones which were worn as amulets.

" It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum, Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game-and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn ,-nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted.

The two upper steps were made of eight shorter but similarly shaped stones, and on top was an octagonal block about three feet high with a cross fixed upon it.

The whole is surrounded by a circle of granite stones set on their edge which once surrounded the cairn — the rocks of which are now scattered around — that was originally built over a large kistvaen that still exists beneath the pedestal.

In 1812 Windeatt started to build a farmhouse, Fox Tor Farm, on his land and his workmen robbed the nearby Childe's Tomb of most of its stones for the building and its doorsteps.

He cleared out the kistvaen, reporting that it was 5 foot 6 inches ( 1. 7 m ) long by 2 foot 8 inches ( 86 cm ) wide and that unlike most kistvaens found on the moor, the stones lining it had apparently been shaped by man, which led him to suggest that it was less old than most.

J. Brooking Rowe, writing in 1895, states that the tomb was re-erected in 1890 under the direction of Mr. E. Fearnley Tanner, who said that he was dissatisfied with the result because several stones were missing and it was difficult to recreate the original character of the monument.

Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, France, several dozen dolmens are found.

He stood off a group of islands from which several natives came off and hurled stones at his ship.

Many of the stones bear inscription and figures, several of which have been interpreted as dancers in a ring or line dance.

This frees the projectile to fly to the target. The sling derives its effectiveness by essentially extending the length of a human arm, thus allowing stones to be thrown several times farther than they could be by hand.

There is evidence of early habitation with several burial mounds and stones.

The brother of Jared goes to a mountain and brings several molten stones ; then God touches the stones and makes them light.

Image: Welcoming scene on Stenbro stone. JPG | The Stenbro picture stone on Gotland is one of several image stones that depict a dead man being received by a Valkyrie in the afterlife.

The related Old Norse masculine noun víkingr appears in Viking Age skaldic poetry and on several rune stones found in Scandinavia, where it refers to a seaman or warrior who takes part in an expedition overseas.

Whole chestnuts are dry roasted by tossing them in a dry wok with several pounds of small stones.

The structure's walls consist of three components: an outer layer ( tilted inwards and made of many layers of stones whose size diminishes with height: mostly, lower layers consist of rubble masonry, while upper layers tend to ashlar masonry ) shaped like a tower, an inner layer, made of smaller stones ( to form a bullet shaped dome called " Tholos ": ashlar masonry is used here more frequently ), an intermediate layer of very small pieces and dirt, which makes the whole construction very sturdy: it stands only by virtue of the weight of its stones, which may each amount to several tons.

Omphalos stones used to denote this point were erected in several areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea ; the most famous of those was at the oracle in Delphi.

A variety of Cornish stones are used in the construction and the 73 stained glass windows illustrating the Arthurian tales are by Veronica Whall ; there are several fine paintings also of scenes from the life of King Arthur by William Hatherell.

The Pontificale Romanum contained a rite for blessing at the same time several of these altar stones.

In the summer of 2009, stones in the South West Transept were discovered to have cracked around several iron braces surrounding the Great South Window.

" At the very least, several of the stones at Brodgar contain runic carvings that were left by Nordic peoples.

Ancient obelisks were often monolithic, whereas most modern obelisks are made of several stones and can have interior spaces.

Black may also pre-place several handicap stones before play begins, to compensate for the difference in strength ( see below ).

Across the street is Freedom Park, which contains a fountain with concrete stepping stones leading to a sign that pleads for peace in several different languages.

During 1791 – 92, Andrew Ellicott and several assistants, including a free African American astronomer named Benjamin Banneker, surveyed the borders of the federal district and placed boundary stones at every mile point.

Along the walkway there are several large stones on which are inscribed quotations from Tillich's writings.

This coffee shop however, has met with fierce opposition from some of the local population, who have bombarded the coffee shop with stones several times.