He worked in ballistics at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, where he invented the Aberdeen Chronograph, the first instrument to measure accurately the muzzle velocity of artillery shells, and portable enough to be used on the battlefield.

In 1950, Morton Sultanoff, an engineer for the US Army at Aberdeen Proving ground, invented a Super high speed camera that took frames at one-millionth of a second, and was fast enough to record the shock wave of a small explosion.

The dish is said to have been invented in 1995 in the Haven Chip Bar ( now the Carron ) in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen on Scotland's northeast coast.

The Chronograph ’ s main function is to allow a comparison of observation between a time base and, before the electronic stopwatch was invented, a permanent recording of the observer ’ s findings.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

He had a mean, unbroken sheer bastard in his outfit, and someone invented the name Trig for him.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

Abjads differ from abugidas, another category invented by Daniels, in that in abjads, the vowel sound is implied by phonology, and where vowel marks exist for the system, such as nikkud for Hebrew and harakāt for Arabic, their use is optional and not the dominant ( or literate ) form.

American Richard Danforth invented the Danforth pattern in the 1940s for use aboard landing craft.

It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

These experiments also led to a number of patents: for example, he invented a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture in 1932.

His family was wealthy and well established ; his father Euphorion was a member of the Eupatridae, the ancient nobility of Attica, though this might be a fiction that the ancients invented to account for the grandeur of his plays.

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

1850 in New York City ) invented the vacuum hot table for relining paintings in 1920 ’ s, he filed a patent for the table in 1937.

The Thâbit ibn Kurrah rule is a method for discovering amicable numbers invented in the tenth century by the Arab mathematician Thâbit ibn Kurrah.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

The commission, which also included six other sports executives, labored for three years, after which it declared that Abner Doubleday invented the national pastime.

Several components that eventually played a key role in the development of the automobile were invented for the bicycle, including ball bearings, pneumatic tires, chain-driven sprockets, and tension-spoked wheels.

The Hanoverians, Hessians and Danes, despite earlier undertakings, found, or invented, pressing reasons for withholding their support.

Two versions of Blackwood are common: " standard " Blackwood, developed by Easley, and " Roman key card " or " RKC " Blackwood, named for the Italian team which invented it.

The earliest known tool for use in computation was the abacus, and it was thought to have been invented in Babylon circa 2400 BC.

The world's first computer printer was a 19th century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his difference engine.

The only mechanical device that existed for numerical computation at the beginning of human history was the abacus, invented in Sumeria circa 2500 BC.

Later, the Antikythera mechanism, invented some time around 100 AD in ancient Greece, was the first mechanical calculator utilizing gears of various sizes and configuration to perform calculations, which tracked the metonic cycle still used in lunar-to-solar calendars, and which is consistent for calculating the dates of the Olympiads.

The most commonly seen pattern is the grid, used for thousands of years in China, independently invented by Alexander the Great's city-planner Dinocrates of Rhodes and favoured by the Romans, while almost a rule in parts of pre-Columbian America.

There he discovered how to make the world's finest optical glass and invented incredibly precise methods for measuring dispersion.

Langley invented the bolometer, an instrument for measuring infrared radiation.

* George Horace Gallup, Former resident, American statistician, invented the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.

He also invented more than 20 measuring instruments for the use in craniology, and helped standardize measuring procedures.

Maudslay invented the first bench micrometer capable of measuring to one ten-thousandth of an inch ( 0. 0001 in ≈ 3 µm ).

He invented the first electrical measuring instrument, the electroscope, in the form of a pivoted needle he called the versorium.

Norma, originally named l ’ Equerre et la Regle in French, was one of the constellations invented by Abbé de Lacaille in the middle of the 1750s, when he was measuring about 10, 000 stars at the Cape of Good Hope.

Joly also invented a photometer for measuring light intensity, a meldometer for measuring the melting points of minerals, a differential steam calorimeter for measuring specific heats and a constant-volume gas thermometer, all of which bear his name, together with one of the first color photographic processes, the Joly Colour process.

Halliburton invented the revolutionary cement jet mixer, to eliminate hand-mixing of cement, and the measuring line, a tool used to guarantee cementing accuracy.

In AD 132, Zhang Heng of China's Han dynasty invented the first seismoscope ( by the definition above ), which was called Houfeng Didong Yi ( literally, " instrument for measuring the seasonal winds and the movements of the Earth ").

* Using his expertise about radiant heat absorption by gases, he invented a system for measuring the amount of carbon dioxide in a sample of exhaled human breath ( 1862, 1864 ).

During World War II, he researched the physiology of high-altitude flying and invented instruments for measuring gas pressure.

He visited the lab of Hans Berger, who invented the electroencephalograph, or EEG machine, for measuring electrical activity in the brain.

( 1894 in Lansing, Iowa-1981 ) was a gynecologist who invented the Kegel perineometer ( an instrument for measuring the strength of voluntary contractions of the pelvic floor muscles ) and Kegel exercises ( squeezing of the muscles of the pelvic floor ) as non-surgical treatment of genital relaxation.

The torsion balance, also called torsion pendulum, is a scientific apparatus for measuring very weak forces, usually credited to Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, who invented it in 1777, but independently invented by John Michell sometime before 1783.

The best-known bridge circuit, the Wheatstone bridge, was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie and popularized by Charles Wheatstone, and is used for measuring resistance.

He also worked on measuring radiation emitted from stars, and invented and built new instrumentation for this purpose.

* Joseph Bonomi The proportions of the human figure, as handed down to us by Vitruvius, from the writings of the famous sculptors and painters of antiquity: to be which is added, the admirable method of measuring the figure, invented by John Gibson, sculptor ; with description and illustrative outlines Third edition.

The balance ( also balance scale, beam balance and laboratory balance ) was the first mass measuring instrument invented.

These included ancient instruments such as the armillary sphere, paralactic ruler and astrolabe ; medieval Muslim instruments such as the universal astrolabe, azimuthal and mural quadrants, and sextants ; and several instruments he invented himself, including the mushabbaha bi ' l manattiq, a framed sextant with cords for the determination of the equinoxes similar to what Tycho Brahe later used, and a wooden quadrant for measuring azimuths and elevations.