He announced the invention at a meeting of the American Chemical Society on February 5, 1909.

After being struck ( and nearly killed ) by a bolt of lightning he proudly announced to the world that his invention also served as a " lightning detector ".

At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences on 7 January of that year, the invention was announced and described in general terms, but all specific details were withheld.

Thomas A. Edison had announced the invention of his " phonograph " saying " the object was to record telephone messages and transmit them again by telephone.

At a May 1973 meeting of the Denver Optical Society of America, in Denver, Colorado, Bhaumik announced his success with laser and later patented his invention.

His next invention was the " Telephone News Service " that he introduced in Pest, which announced news and " broadcast " programmes and was in many ways the forerunner of the radio.

In 1957, according to the dictates of the Royal Decree No. 17, Prince Fahd announced the founding of King Saud University, established in order to, “ Disseminate and promote knowledge in Our Kingdom for widening the base of scientific and literary study, and for keeping abreast with other nations in the arts and sciences and for contributing with them discovery and invention ”, in addition to reviving Islamic civilization and articulate its benefits and glories, along with its ambitions to nurture the young virtuously and to guarantee their healthy minds and ethics .”

He announced his invention at a meeting of the American Chemical Society on February 5, 1909.

Prior to the invention of the moveable-type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1447, weddings in England were typically announced by means of a Town crier: a man who would walk through the streets announcing in a loud voice the news of the day.

It was during this second trip that Schmidt announced to his companion, the astronomer Walter Baade, the most important invention of Schmidt's lifetime, indeed an invention that revolutionized astronomy and optical design in the second half of the 20th century, namely his wide-angle reflective camera.

In late 2011, Sim Wong Hoo, announced his creation of a new invention, the HanZpad, at a news conference in Beijing.

Beyond the projections already familiar to the Lisbon audience, he presented the great novelty: the live photograph-shown not through an Edison Kinetograph, as it was announced at the time, but by the Elektrotachyscop or Schnellseher, an invention by Ottomar Anschutz, that A. J. Ferreira calls Electro-Tachiscópio Eisenlohr.

The Aquanator invention was announced in 2004.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

By 1853, the new partnership announced the precision vernier caliper as the first fruit of their joint efforts.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

Then, six weeks after the day Kitti first came into the office, Stanley announced he and Kitti were married.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

The Diamondbacks announced in early September 2006 that their uniforms, which remained largely unchanged since the team's first season, would be completely redesigned for the 2007 season.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

* 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

In 2010, Clinton announced support of, and delivered the keynote address for, the inauguration of NTR, Ireland's first environmental foundation.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

On April 14, after its first session, the PRA announced that Khieu Samphan would chair the State Presidium for a 5-year term.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

On October 26, 1993, the league announced that the owners had unanimously voted for the Carolinas to receive the 29th franchise, the first new NFL team since 1976 ( Jacksonville was named the 30th team a month later ).

On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets.

Robert Mugabe announced Zimbabwe's immediate withdrawal from the Commonwealth at the 2003 CHOGM, and Nigeria's execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others on the first day of the 1995 CHOGM led to that country's suspension.

Busicom introduced the Busicom LE-120A " HANDY " calculator, the first pocket-sized calculator and the first with an LED display, and announced the Busicom LC with LCD display.

ClearType was first announced at the November 1998 COMDEX exhibition.

Compaq PortableIn November 1982 Compaq announced their first product, the Compaq Portable, a portable IBM PC compatible personal computer.

On Monday, October 9, 2006, North Korea has announced that it had successfully detonated a nuclear device underground at 10: 36 am local time without any radiation leak.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

In 1968, at the third IAEA International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research at Novosibirsk, Soviet scientists announced that they had achieved electron temperatures of over 1000 eV in a tokamak device.

Google has announced that it has been working on a wearable optical device.

The technology gained further public attention when a company announced in early 2008 that they were close to fielding a device called MEDUSA ( Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio ) based on the principle.

* Action Gamemaster – a handheld device designed and announced in 1994 by Active Enterprises.

On October 10, Apple announced that over one million iPhone 4Ss had been pre-ordered within the first 24 hours of it being on sale, beating the 600, 000 device record set by the iPhone 4.

The device of letting the lower parts echo rhythmically a motive announced by the sopranos became a mannerism.

* In 2003, Bombardier announced a conceptual design for such a device used as a sport vehicle, the EMBRIO.

WebTV was announced on July 10, 1996, generating a large wave of press attention as not only the first television-based use of the World Wide Web, but also as the first consumer-electronics device to access the World Wide Web without a personal computer.

While the device had been built and activated, its existence had not yet been announced ; this was due to come at a Communist Party conference the next week, thereby making it useless as a nuclear deterrent under the circumstances.

Nokia announced in November 2002 that they will develop the N-Gage, a device that integrated these two devices.

At CES 2012, a company named Hyperkin announced that they were going to bring back the Game Genie for the 3DS, DSi and DSi XL, DS Lite, DS, Wii, PS3, and PSP along with a new device called Save Guru

Cessna recently announced they were partnering with Winglet Technology, LLC of Wichita, Kansas, to test a new wingtip device called Elliptical Winglets, which are designed to increase range and increase payload on hot and high departures.

In mid-2007, scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, along with collaborators in Turkey and Japan, announced the creation of a compact device that can lead to portable, battery-operated sources of T-rays, or terahertz radiation.

In September 2006, Samsung announced a prototype 512 Mb ( 64 MB ) device using diode switches.

It has been announced that hologram disks will be a post-Blu-ray storage device.

At the January 2001 Consumer Electronics Show they announced and demonstrated the first integrated audio device connecting to " over a thousand internet radio stations ".

In 2010 the developers announced that the game would be ported to Android devices, also allowing mobile device users to play characters they had started on laptops and desktops or to begin new characters.

In September 2010, ElcomSoft announced a password cracking utility for Research In Motion BlackBerry device backups that takes advantage of what Vladimir Katalov, ElcomSoft's CEO, described as the " very strange way, to say the least " in which the BlackBerry uses PBKDF2.

A disposable DNA sequencing device, which will retail for under $ 900 has recently been announced.

Northwestern University researchers announced a solution to a primary problem of the Grätzel cell, that of difficulties in using and containing the liquid electrolyte and the consequent relatively short useful life of the device.

BigPond Movies announced in June 2011 that they will be pulling out of the DVD-by-mail market at the end of September 2011 and are, instead, offering subscribers the option of downloading movies directly via their proprietary T-box device.