Invented in 1888 by Max Ams, modern double seams provide an airtight seal to the tin can.

Despite a London Free Press account about the Tecumsehs on 21 June 1939 ( Fred Goldsmith Invented The Curve Ball ), that stated the team defeated the Chicago White Sox in three straight games to win the title series in 1878, it appears the writer was in error, instead referring to a two-game series in 1877 between the Tecumsehs and the Chicago White Stockings.

Exception: If you hold the “ Invented a new force field ” mission card you survive the attack and automatically win the game!

Invented by Charles Jewell, it is a unique game where two types of building are done in the same game.

Invented by Charles Jewell, it is a relative of the solitaire game Spider in which all of the cards are dealt face up at the beginning of the game.

Invented by David Parlett, this game belongs to the family of solitaire games that includes Spider and Scorpion.

Invented by Richard Gatling, it is known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat.

Invented by the Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva to create an aircraft that could safely fly at slow speeds, the autogyro was first flown on 9 January 1923, at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid.

In 2000, a documentary about his life and involvement in the emergence of Rock and Roll called " Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ' n ' Roll " was released by A & E Television Networks.

Invented in 1919 in Russia by Lev Sergeivitch Termen, the Theremin was not only the first electronic musical instrument, but also the first ( and still the only ) instrument played without touching it by moving the hands in the space between two antennas, one of which controls intonation and the other the volume.

Dennis Gabor: Invented the hologram on a tennis court-before it was possible to make one.

Samuel Morland: Invented giant megaphones and was master mechanic to Charles II

Invented in 1929 by the Swiss ski racer Guido Reuge, patented by him and marketed in 1932, the spring-loaded cable binding was named for the Lord Roberts of Kandahar Cup ski races.

Invented by the original inhabitants of the island, the Guanches, Silbo Gomero was adopted by the Spanish settlers in the 16th century and survived after the Guanches died out.

Le Twiddle was particularly licentious and became popular with young men in bars and nightclubs leading to outraged reports in the Spanish press (" English Claim Pope Invented New Dance "), which in turn attracted the attention of Franco's Fascist Guardia who banned it, making several arrests to prove their point.

Invented by Péter Sebestény, the Rubik's Revenge was nearly called the Sebestény Cube until a somewhat last-minute decision changed the puzzle's name to attract fans of the original Rubik's Cube.

There was never an " official " expansion of WAITS, but a common variant was " West-coast Alternative to ITS "; another variant was " Worst Acronym Invented for a Timesharing System ".

Invented in 1976 by Chu Bong-Foo, the method is named after Cangjie, the man historically credited with the invention of the first Chinese writing system ; the name was suggested by Chiang Wei-kuo, then Defence Minister of the Republic of China.

Invented by Dave Spencer for the 1985 Disney film The Black Cauldron, the APT ( Animation Photo Transfer ) process was a technique for transferring the animators ' art onto cels.

Um, Ingenuity, Anyhow " and " 81-Year-Old Dr. NakaMats May Have Invented Nearly Everything You Hold Dear ", and was the subject of documentary comedy " The Invention of Dr Nakamats ".

Invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, it was patented on March 25, 1857.

Invented by Colonel Fritz Nebel and introduced in March 1918, the cipher was a fractionating transposition cipher which combined a modified Polybius square with a single columnar transposition.

Invented by Joseph Slepian while employed by Westinghouse, Westinghouse was the original manufacturer and owned trademark rights to the name " Ignitron ".

Invented by Raymond De Walt in 1922, the radial arm saw was the primary tool used for cutting long pieces of stock to length until the introduction of the power miter saw in the 1970s.

Invented by John Curwen, the system was imported into Africa by the British in the nineteenth century.

Invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin in 1957, GEORGE was closest to present-day programming languages.

Invented by the British Mathematician and 3 times runner-up at the World Championship and 5 times British Champion Graham Brightwell, this is the tiebreaker that is now used in many tournaments including the WOC.

He is also shown as an inventor / huckster ( in the style of Ron Popeil ) on the television show I Can't Believe They Invented It !, with products such as the " Juice Loosener " in " Marge in Chains ", an inefficient juicer made in Japan which ultimately causes an influenza epidemic in Springfield ( due to one of the workers at the factory having the disease, but still going to work, thus spreading his germs through the packaging ).

* 9 × 19mm Parabellum: Invented for the German military at the turn of the 20th century, the wide distribution of the 9 × 19mm Parabellum cartridge made it the logical choice for the NATO standard pistol and SMG round.

* John V. Atanasoff Dies at Age 91 Invented First Electronic Computer – Washington Post Obituary, 1995

Invented by Sir James Dewar in 1892, the vacuum flask consists of two flasks, placed one within the other and joined at the neck.

Invented at Bryant's Cocktail Lounge.

Invented for convenience at the opera, collapsible top hats are still used as eveningwear.

The process can lead to a loss of productivity and demoralisation, or at its extreme to " Not Invented Here syndrome "; i. e., only using internal products.

Invented by hotelier J. Houston c 1870, at his Granville Hotel on Water Street in old pre-railway Gastown, Vancouver, in response to requests from his clientele for a better " feed " at the start of a long, hard day of work.

Invented by Lester S. Hill in 1929, it was the first polygraphic cipher in which it was practical ( though barely ) to operate on more than three symbols at once.

Invented by the Normans, appearing at the same time as cantled saddle.

In the same year he started a new venture to collect more forms at a blog called The Book of Odd and Invented Forms.

Invented by researchers at DuPont, it is a colourless polymer containing ether functionality.

Invented in the mid-1960s at Stanford University by Dr. Dwight Allen, micro-teaching has been used with success for several decades now, as a way to help teachers acquire new skills.

Invented around 1974 and patented 1980 by British watchmaker George Daniels, the co-axial escapement is one of the few new watch escapements adopted commercially in modern times.