In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

In computer science, an AVL tree is a self-balancing binary search tree, and it was the first such data structure to be invented.

* 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.

In 1951 he invented and tested the first explosively pumped flux compression generators, compressing magnetic fields by explosives.

In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).

* John Rex Whinfield, chemist, inventor of Terylene ( polyester ), the first completely synthetic fibre invented in UK

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 dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

Boece's work is the first known record of Banquo and his son Fleance ; and scholars such as David Bevington generally consider them fictional characters invented by Boece.

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

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.

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 first widespread use of a chord keyboard was in the stenotype machine used by court reporters, which was invented in 1868 and is still in use.

The first mercury powered automata clock was invented by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi

Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.

Steven Sasson, an electrical engineer working for Kodak, invented the first digital still camera using a Fairchild CCD in 1975.

The first true electronic vacuum tubes, invented around 1906, used this hot cathode technique, and they superseded Crookes tubes.

Code coverage was among the first methods invented for systematic software testing.

At the end of the 18th century, the first form of solid chocolate was invented in Turin by Doret.

" He was followed in 1660 by Otto von Guericke, who invented what was probably the first electrostatic generator.

The detector was based on an electrostatic device called the ' electric chimes ' invented by Andrew Gordon in 1742.

Carlson's innovation combined electrostatic printing with photography, unlike the dry electrostatic printing process invented by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in 1778.

In 1868 Dolbear ( while a professor at Bethany College ) invented the electrostatic telephone.

The first electrostatic levitator was invented by Dr. Won-Kyu Rhim at NASA's JPL lab in 1993.

In 1762 he invented an electrostatic generator that was a first version of the electrophorus, a device named and popularized in 1775 by Alessandro Volta.

In 1949, Derrick Henry Lehmer invented the linear congruential generator, used in most pseudorandom number generators today.

* Thermomechanical generator, a Stirling engine invented by Cooke-Yarborough

He also invented the HAVAL hash function, SPEED cipher, and STRANDOM pseudo-random number generator.

In 1979, he invented a character generator program, which takes Cangjie encoded data and dynamically generates Chinese characters for screen display.

He invented the " Löschfunkensender " ( generator of slightly weakened electromagnetic oscillations, used for example, on the RMS Titanic ) during the years 1906 to 1909 and the Wien bridge in 1891.

An example of a simple pseudo-random number generator is the Multiply-with-carry method invented by George Marsaglia.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

Broughton also invented and encouraged the use of " mufflers ", a form of padded gloves, which were used in training and exhibitions.

To account for the discrepancy, Chinese Marxists invented the term " bureaucratic feudalism ", which is an oxymoron.

In the United States, in 1885, the chemist Russell S. Penniman invented " ammonium dynamite ", a form of explosive that used ammonium nitrate as a substitute for the more costly nitroglycerin.

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.

In 1919, the year tetrodes were invented, William Henry Eccles coined the term diode from the Greek roots di ( from δί ), meaning " two ", and ode ( from ὁδός ), meaning " path ".

* 1962 -' 65: A diesel compression braking system, eventually to be manufactured by Jacobs ( of drill chuck fame ) and nicknamed the " Jake Brake ", was invented and patented by Clessie Cummins.

It was to be an " Encyclopedia of Mathematics ", containing all known formulae and theorems of mathematical science using a standard notation invented by Peano.

Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

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 ".

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

Although Jack Worrall claimed that he had invented the term " bodyline ", it is more likely that it was coined by Sydney journalist Hugh Buggy who worked for The Sun in 1932, and who happened to be a colleague of Jack Fingleton.

His acts included giving lectures in an invented language called Slobodian, " Imaginative Young Man with a Walking Stick " and " The Chairback ", with a broken chairback having a number of uses from comb to machine gun and taking on a demonical life of its own.

Indeed, even alphabets constructed " from scratch ", i. e. not derived from Semitic, usually have similar forms to represent this sound, e. g. ; the creators of the Afaka and Ol Chiki scripts, each invented in different parts of the world in the last century, both attributed their vowels for ' O ' to the shape of the mouth when making this sound.

Cassiodorus, a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term " Visigothi " to match that of " Ostrogothi ", which terms he thought of as " western Goths " and " eastern Goths " respectively.

Subsequently, Fred Wolf invented, and obtained U. S. patents on, several new gaming devices which included " Three-special-dice ", and games such as " Sweepstakes Blackjack ", " Fast-action hold ' em ", " Lucky Pan-9 " and " Pai Gow jokers ".