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.

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.

In the ventilation phase of a ventilation / perfusion scan, a gaseous radionuclide xenon or technetium DTPA in an aerosol form ( or ideally using Technegas, a radioaerosol invented in Australia by Dr Bill Burch and Dr Richard Fawdry ) is inhaled by the patient through a mouthpiece or mask that covers the nose and mouth.

Fizeau's father-in-law's friend, Prosper Mérimée, who wrote " Carmen "... his friend, Anthony Panizzi, who works at the British Museum, opened to house the collection of Dr. Hans Sloane, who treats Lady Montague's smallpox before she sees Turkish tulips, first drawn by Gesner, whose godfather eats sausages and cancels the military contract with France, which was the first to develop military music and choreography, used in a London show by John Gay, whose friend Arbuthnot does statistics that impress the Dutch mathematician who knows Voltaire, who hears from the worm-slicing Lazzaro Spallanzani, who stars in the story by Judge Hoffman, who tries German nationalists who start gymnastics, adopted by the YMCA and the guy who kicks off the Red Cross, who need a way to figure out blood types, surgical stitching, and the perfusion pump invented by Charles Lindbergh, whose father-in-law's disarmament treaty leads to " Graf Spee ," " Altmark, " and the German invasion of Norway and the Allied commandos whose mission was to " Hit the Water.

It was originally named Antlia pneumatica (" Machine Pneumatique " in French ) to commemorate the air pump invented by the French physicist Denis Papin.

The first self-acting ram pump was invented by the Frenchman Joseph Michel Montgolfier ( best known as a co-inventor of the hot air balloon ) in 1796 for raising water in his paper mill at Voiron.

In contrast, requiring only a single small incision, the " Bonati system " ( invented by Dr. Alfred Bonati ), uses a single 5-function control, so that a saline solution and the vacuum pump operate together when the laser cutter is activated.

Named after the Roots brothers who designed and invented it, this lobe pump works by displacing the liquid trapped between two long helical twisted rotors, each fitting into the other when perpendicular at 90 °, rotating inside a triangular shaped sealing line configuration, both at the point of suction and at the point of discharge.

The first beer pump known in England is believed to have been invented by John Lofting ( b. Netherlands 1659-d. Great Marlow Buckinghamshire 1742 ) an inventor, manufacturer and merchant of London.

The turbomolecular pump was invented in 1958 by Becker, based on the older molecular drag pumps developed by Gaede in 1913, Holweck in 1923 and Siegbahn in 1944.

The first vacuum pump was invented in 1650 by Otto von Guericke, and was preceded by the suction pump, which dates to antiquity.

In 1654, Otto von Guericke invented the first vacuum pump and conducted his famous Magdeburg hemispheres experiment, showing that teams of horses could not separate two hemispheres from which the air had been evacuated.

The study of vacuum then lapsed until 1855, when Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury displacement pump and achieved a record vacuum of about 10 Pa ( 0. 1 Torr ).

Probably around 1650 von Guericke invented a vacuum pump consisting of a piston and an air gun cylinder with two-way flaps designed to pull air out of whatever vessel it was connected to, and used it to investigate the properties of the vacuum in many experiments.

Lord Kelvin invented the heat pump in 1852, and Heinrich Zoelly had patented the idea of using it to draw heat from the ground in 1912.

The self-regulating farm wind pump was invented by Daniel Halladay in 1854.

It was invented by Hero of Alexandria in the basis of Ctesibius ' double action piston pump.

The Magdeburg hemispheres were designed by a German scientist and mayor of Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke in 1656 to demonstrate the air pump which he had invented, and the concept of atmospheric pressure.

The Magdeburg hemispheres, around 50 cm ( 20 inches ) in diameter, were designed to demonstrate the vacuum pump that von Guericke had invented.

In 1206, al-Jazari invented an early crankshaft, which he incorporated with a crank-connecting rod mechanism in his twin-cylinder pump.

Citing the Byzantine siphon used for discharging Greek fire as an inspiration, al-Jazari went on to describe the first suction pipes, suction pump, double-action pump, and made early uses of valves and a crankshaft-connecting rod mechanism, when he invented a twin-cylinder reciprocating piston suction pump.

* A centrifugal pump is invented by Denis Papin.

In 1921 – 23, he invented a mechanical breast pump, which saved many premature infants ' lives and made Lasker a lot of money, although it caused his friends to refer to him facetiously as " the chest player ".

* First use, in a case of myocardial infarction, of the intra-aortic balloon pump invented by Dr Adrian Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur.

Michael DeBakey, renowned heart surgeon who invented the peristaltic pump | roller pump