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He invented and described many of the principles of modern botany.
While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.
However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.
The American poet Adelaide Crapsey invented the modern form, known as American Cinquain inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka, akin in spirit to that of the Imagists
T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".
Three of the best-known figures in the sport are George Sappenfield, who privately called the game " Basket Frisbee ", " Steady Ed " Headrick who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc.
Although the names are old, this opposition is a modern western-influenced development popularized by Martin Haug in the 1880s, and was in effect a realignment of the precepts of Zurvanism ( Zurvanite Zoroastrianism ), which had invented a third deity, Zurvan, in order to explain a mention of twinship ( Yasna 30. 3 ) between the moral and immoral.
Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).
The modern steam turbine ( invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884 ) currently generates about 80 % of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.
The modern steam turbine invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884 today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.
A typical example is the modern 11-string archguitar, invented and played by Peter Blanchette.
The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.
The forerunner to the modern gas mask was invented in 1847 by Lewis Haslett, a device that contained elements that allowed breathing through a nose and mouthpiece, inhalation of air through a bulb-shaped filter, and a vent to exhale air back into the atmosphere.
A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".
In the 1970s, Canadian Keith Johnstone invented Theatresports that has become a staple of modern improvisational comedy.
The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt ( similar to the modern kilt ) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire called Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders he and Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ".
* 2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor, invented the modern hot air balloon ( b. 1919 )
However recent evidence suggests modern human language was invented or evolved in Africa prior to the dispersal of humans from Africa around 50, 000 years ago.
Silbermann's pianos were virtually direct copies of Cristofori's, with one important addition: Silbermann invented the forerunner of the modern damper pedal, which lifts all the dampers from the strings simultaneously.
File: Tesla3. jpg | Nikola Tesla ( 1856-1943 ): developer of modern alternating current ( AC ) flow, improved on the dynamo, patents and theoretical work formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio, transformer and electric bulb and invented the Tesla coil.
The pitot tube was invented by the French engineer Henri Pitot in the early 18th century and was modified to its modern form in the mid-19th century by French scientist Henry Darcy.
Although the Chinese invented gunpowder, and firearms had been in continual use in Chinese warfare since as far back as the Song Dynasty, the advent of modern weaponry resulting from the European Industrial Revolution had rendered China's traditionally trained and equipped army and navy obsolete.
As writer Michael Bracewell notes in his book Roxy: the band that invented an era, Roxy Music was created expressly by Ferry, Mackay and Eno as a means of combining their mutual interests in music, modern art and fashion.

invented and plywood
Modern plywood was invented by Immanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel.
Later hollow-bodied guitars ( constructed out of Masonite and plywood to save costs and increase production speed ), distinguished by Silvertone's maroon vinyl covering, Danelectro's light tweed covering, the concentric stacked tone / volume knobs used on the two-pickup models of both series, and the " lipstick-tube " pickups — invented by placing the entire mechanism into spare lipstick tubes — aimed to produce no-frills guitars of reasonably good tone at low cost.
Modern plywood, as an alternative to natural wood, was invented in the 19th century, but by the end of the 1940s a shortage of lumber made it difficult to manufacture plywood affordably.

invented and started
In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.
Higher level programming languages were not invented until the benefits of being able to reuse software on different kinds of CPUs started to become significantly greater than the costs of writing a compiler.
Modern disc golf started in the early 1960s, when it seems to have been invented in many places and by many people independently.
In 1642, while still a teenager, Blaise Pascal started some pioneering work on calculating machines and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.
According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure ( 1953 ), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self contained underwater breathing apparatus invented in 1926 by Commander Yves le Prieur.
Talk of a transcontinental railroad started in 1830, shortly after steam powered railroads were invented in Great Britain and began to be introduced into the United States.
In 1901, Sandvik invented and started the production of steel conveyor belts.
This concept was invented in 1898, when the Bridge and Beach Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, started manufacturing a vertical cast iron stove.
In one episode, he invented a bulldozer-like contraption intended to provide convenience for Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit, but the invention proved to have disastrous results, and Rabbit insisted that Tigger shut it down ; however, in the winter, a depressed Tigger accidentally started the machine up, and it proved to be useful by plowing snow around Piglet's house before malfunctioning.
Some of these stories, the " wisdom literatures " may have just started as a ' short story ', but since writing had only recently been invented, it was the first physical recordings of societal ideas, in some length and detail.
Science was a hobby but he soon started to investigate the feasibility of replacing the brewery's steam engines with the newly invented electric motor.
In 1924 Michel formed a partnership with Joseph Sullivan, and together they started the Michel Electric Handsaw Company, with the sole purpose of manufacturing and marketing the saw invented by Michel.
Eventually ancestors of the Algonquian-speaking Lenape moved into the area, perhaps as early as 1000 A. D. Clay pottery and the bow and arrow was being invented around 1000 A. D. Agriculture also started around that time, with the cultivation of varieties of corn, beans and squash.
When we threw out all science, started from experiment and experience, then we invented the airplane.
A famous resident of Winona was J. R. Watkins, the man who invented the " money back guarantee " in 1868 when he started Watkins Incorporated.
Traditionally, most say it was Jack O ' Neill who invented the wetsuit and started using neoprene, a closed-cell foam which was shown to him by his bodysurfing friend, Harry Hind, who knew of it as an insulating material in his laboratory work.
In 1861, the same year the war started, Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling invented the Gatling gun.
Orangina started as Naranjina, presented at the 1935 Marseille Trade Fair by its Spanish inventor, chemist Dr. Trigo, from Valencia, who invented it in 1933.
Subsequently in 1990, James Dalgety in the UK invented the name Nonograms after Non Ishida, and The Sunday Telegraph started publishing them on a weekly basis.
* Broadcaster and writer Stuart Maconie — while working at the NME — started a rumour that Connect 4 was invented by David Bowie, which became an urban myth.
* 1912: The first recorded mass production of rebreathers started with the Dräger rebreathers, invented some years earlier by Hermann Stelzner, an engineer at the Dräger company.
According to Camilla Gryski, a Canadian librarian and author of numerous string figure books, " We don't know when people first started playing with string, or which primitive people invented this ancient art.
It was only in 1960, when engines became lighter and smaller than before, that Bombardier invented what we know as the modern snowmobile in its open-cockpit one-or two-person form, and started selling it as the " Ski-doo ".
In 1893 William Rose invented the world's first packaging machine, and two years later bought the Trentside Works site and started to rapidly expand his packaging machine business.

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