The disc was discovered in 1908 by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, and features 241 tokens, comprising 45 unique signs, which were apparently made by pressing pre-formed hieroglyphic " seals " into a disc of soft clay, in a clockwise sequence spiraling towards the disc's center.

Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier recovered this remarkably intact " dish ", about 15 cm in diameter and uniformly slightly more than one centimetre in thickness, on 3 July 1908 during his excavation of the first Minoan palace.

At first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.

Many other examples of this like The Country Doctor ( 1908 ) can easily be found in his work.

Separately, in 1908, Pickering announced that, by analysing irregularities in Uranus's orbit, he had found evidence for a ninth planet.

Then in 1908, the Japanese chemist Masataka Ogawa found evidence in the mineral thorianite, which he thought indicated the presence of element 43.

In 1908 Gropius found employment with the firm of Peter Behrens, one of the first members of the utilitarian school.

He helped found an international competition with Scotland, Ireland and Wales, captaining England from the inaugural international at Crystal Palace in 1903 until 1908.

** Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister ( body never found ) ( b. 1908 )

The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard ; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.

Piltdown Man skull The skull unearthed in 1908 was the only find discovered in situ, with most of the other pieces found in the gravel pits ' spoil heaps.

An early example of this is Gustave Le Rouge's Le prisonnier de la planète Mars ( 1908 ) and its sequel La guerre des vampires ( 1909 ), in which a native race of bat-winged, blood-drinking humanoids is found on Mars.

Red Horn ( also known as ' He Who Wears ( Human ) Faces on His Ears ') is found in the oral traditions of the Ioway, and Hocągara ( Winnebago ) ( whose ethnology was recorded by anthropologist Paul Radin, 1908 – 1912 ).

Women also found opportunity in The Royal Worcester Corset Factory, a company that provided employment opportunity for 1200 women ; it was the largest employer of women in the United States in 1908.

Grizzly bears were not found in the region after 1908.

In 1908, Dr Hocken found the Treaty in poor condition, partly eaten by rodents.

The beginnings of an Anglo-Welsh tradition are found by some in the novels of Allen Raine ( Anne Adalisa ( Evans ) Puddicombe ) ( 1836 – 1908 ), from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, whose work, Stephen Thomas Knight proposes, " realised a real, if partial, separate identity and value for a Welsh social culture ".

Studebaker's agreement with the E-M-F Company, made in September 1908 was a different relationship, one John Studebaker had hoped would give Studebaker a quality product without the entanglements found in the Garford relationship, but this was not to be.

In 1908 Pope Pius X had another lightweight tiara made as he found that the normal tiaras in use were too heavy, while the lightweight ones did not fit comfortably.

For Serbia this was considered catastrophic ; after her hopes of expansion to the north were thwarted due to Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 1908, Serbia now found the last direction of possible expansion, the south, also closing due to the creation of a Greater Albania.

According to a letter from Davis to Gaston Maspero, some of the objects found in KV55 were still in place in January 1908, and their study and attempts at conservation were still ongoing at this later date .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite >, ( Keegan Paul, 1990 ), p

io geisha ( Stichel, 1908 ) found in Japan and the Russian Far East.

Riblet returned to Spokane in 1908, after working in the Kootenays, to found the Riblet Tramway Company.

In 1908, Morgan helped found the Cleveland Association of Colored Men.

His head of Abraham Lincoln, carved from a six-ton block of marble, was exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and can be found in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D. C. A patriot, believing that the " monuments we have built are not our own ," he looked to create art that was " American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement " according to a 1908 interview article.

As in Bobbs-Merrill Co v. Straus, 210 U. S. 339 ( 1908 ) with copyright, the court found that restrictions could not be extended beyond the statute through the use of a license.

By 1908, a majority of the public demanded double-sided disc recordings, and cylinders fell into disfavor.

In 1908, Hale used a modified spectroheliograph to show that the spectra of hydrogen exhibited the Zeeman effect whenever the area of view passed over a sunspot on the solar disc.

The possibility that the disc is a 1908 forgery or hoax has been raised by two or three scholars.

" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).

* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

He gained a BSc with Gold Medal in 1908, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914.

In 1908, he commissioned ( at no pay ) Napoleon Hill, then a journalist, to interview more than 500 wealthy achievers to find out the common threads of their success.

Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.

Albert Calmette, a French bacteriologist, and his assistant and later colleague, Camille Guérin, a veterinarian, were working at the Institut Pasteur de Lille ( Lille, France ) in 1908.

On 8 October 1908, just two days after Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, many men, some of them ranking Serbian ministers, officials and generals, held a meeting at City Hall in Belgrade.

Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Calif, 1908, on its original campus at downtown Pasadena.

* 1908 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two

Swedish high diver Arvid Spangberg at the 1908 Olympic Games from the fourth Olympiad

1908 ), 1: 1 – 6, at Perseus Digital Library.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

Satie would follow these courses at the Schola, as a respected pupil, for more than five years, receiving a first ( intermediate ) diploma in 1908.

The litigation over patents between all the major American film-making companies had continued, and at the end of 1908 they decided to pool their patents and form a trust to use them to control the American film business.

This was set up at the beginning of 1908 to make films of a serious artistic nature.

The technique got to Europe almost immediately, and Segundo de Chomon and others at Pathé took it further, adding clay animation, in which sculptures were deformed from one thing into another thing frame by frame in Sculpture moderne ( 1908 ), and then Pathé made the next step to the animation of silhouette shapes.

Before D. W. Griffith started directing at Biograph in May 1908, he had seen the two Pathé films just mentioned, and a number of Vitagraph films as well.

A game of hockey being played between Germany and Scotland at the 1908 London Olympics

Field hockey was played at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920.

Madero spent the bulk of 1908 writing a book at the directions of the spirits, which now included the spirit of Benito Juárez himself.

Poudre Valley Bank, now Nature's Own at Linden and Walnut, Fort Collins, Colorado ( 1908 )

In 1908 Hans Geiger, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester ( now the University of Manchester ), developed an experimental technique for detecting alpha particles that would later be used in the Geiger-muller tube.

Also in 1908, Peano took over the chair of higher analysis at Turin ( this appointment was to last for only two years ).