Inventions can also be accidental, such as in the case of polytetrafluoroethylene ( Teflon ).

Inventions such as the telephone were first presented during this era.

Inventions that either are associated with this era or became generally common in this era include the perfection of lightly sprung, noiseless carriages in a multitude of new fashionable forms, which were superseded towards the end of the era by the automobile, which was for its first decade a luxurious experiment for the well-heeled, French automobile manufacturers such as Peugeot were already pioneers in automobile manufacturing.

Chinese discoveries and Chinese innovations such as papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder ( the Four Great Inventions ) contributed to the economic development in Asia and Europe.

On returning to England from exile in 1660, Charles II imported with him the latest new word in fashion: " A cravatte is another kind of adornment for the neck being nothing else but a long towel put about the Collar, and so tyed before with a Bow Knott ; this is the original of all such Wearings ; but now by the Art and Inventions of the seamsters, there is so many new ways of making them, that it would be a task to name, much more to describe them ".

He was warned against this by the engineers who were responsible for the creation of the tank and his subcommanders, such as Ernest Dunlop Swinton ( who had been part of the Landships Committee ), and the French government, which sent Colonel Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne and Sub-secretary of State of Inventions Jean-Louis Bréton, ( who were normally arch-enemies ), to London, hoping to persuade the British government to overrule Haig.

Inventions that are credited to the ancient Greeks such as the gear, screw, bronze casting techniques, water clock, water organ, torsion catapult and the use of steam to operate some experimental machines and toys.

Belleau's first published poems were odes, les Petites Inventions ( 1556 ), inspired by the ancient lyric Greek collection attributed to Anacreon and featuring poems of praise for such things as butterflies, oysters, cherries, coral, shadows, turtles.

Sandoval promises that will change ; she and Roback have their very own Chinese Democracy in the works, but it won't see the light of day until The Warm Inventions have wrapped up their tour.

The company manufactured the first telephone in Japan in 1881, only five years after Bell invented the phone, and presented a silver-award winning lacquer-coated wire at the 1885 International Inventions Exhibition in London.

In 2008 the Bixi program was ranked by Time Magazine as the 19th best invention in their 50 Best Inventions of 2008.

Inventions familiar in the early 21st century made their first appearance during this era.

Inventions during the 18th century spurred the Industrial Revolution, with the picking stick and the flying shuttle ( John Kay, 1733 ) speeding up production of cloth.

The modern list of the Four Great Inventions originated in the mid-19th century with the writings of missionary and sinologist Joseph Edkins ( 1823 – 1905 ).

In October 2000, Sandoval issued her first EP with The Warm Inventions, At the Doorway Again, and followed it up with her debut full-length album, Bavarian Fruit Bread, a year later.

Sandoval's second album with The Warm Inventions, Through the Devil Softly, was released via Nettwerk on September 29, 2009 and was followed on August 10, 2010 by a non-album single, a cover of Syd Barrett's " Golden Hair.

Inventions like the arrastra were often used by the Spanish to pulverize ore after being mined.

This postcard book, Rube Goldberg's Inventions !, was compiled by Maynard Frank Wolfe from the Rube Goldberg Archives.

Bob received the 7th place in PC World magazine's list of the 25 worst tech products of all time, a spot in Time magazine's list of the 50 Worst Inventions and number one worst product of the decade by CNET. com.

* Ancient Inventions – directed by Phil Grabsky and Daniel Percival ( 1998 )

Cruel Inventions was released in 1991, and included a guest performance by Elvis Costello.

* Cruel Inventions ( 1991, Virgin Records ) Produced by T-Bone Burnett.

* Five-pin bowling was one of four sports featured on the Canadian Inventions: Sports series issued by Canada Post stamps on August 10, 2009.

* Popular Science: Science Year by Year: Discoveries and Inventions from the Last Century that Shape our Lives ( 2001 ), New York: Scholastic, p. 208-209.

* English Pleasure Carriages: Their Origin, History, Varieties, Materials, Construction, Defects, Improvements, and Capabilities: With an Analysis of the Construction of Common Roads and Railroads, and the Public Vehicles Used on Them ; Together with Descriptions of New Inventions by William Bridges Adams, 1837.

21 of Edison, His Life and Inventions ( 1910 ), by Frank Lewis Dyer ( Edison lawyer ) and Thomas Commerford Martin ( AIEE ex-president )

** Old brochure edited by the EPO: " Computer-implemented Inventions and Patents, Law and Practice at the European Patent Office " ( on the Internet Archive, pdf document, 400KB )

However, the latter must have felt great pride when Tveitt had his 12 Two-part Inventions in Lydian, Dorian and Phrygian accepted for publishing by Breitkopf & Hartel in 1930.

* The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes, by David E. H. Jones.

* The Further Inventions of Daedalus, by David E. H. Jones.

), he lobbied and convinced the members of the European Parliament to amend a directive proposal on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions ( initially written by the European Commission ).

Developed originally for girls, ringette is a fast-paced team sport played on a hockey rink in which players use a straight stick to pass, carry, and shoot a rubber ring to score goals ( points ) Jacks ' invention of ringette will be one of four sports featured on the Canadian Inventions: Sports series to be issued by Canada Post stamps on August 10, 2009.

Pioneers in the development and application of piezoelectric transducers for the goal of submarine detection ( a ) Paul Langevin, ( b ) Robert William Boyle, ( c ) Cross-sectional view of a form of quartz transducer designed by Boyle in 1917, as recorded in the BIR ( Board of Inventions and Research ) document 38164 / 17

He also edited the The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions, written by Kenji Kawakami.

" She went on to work with Mary Beth Piel and Ron Rains in " A Little Night Music " at the New York Opera Ensemble, " Quiet on the Set " at the Westbeth Theater, as Hero in " Much Ado About Nothing " at the Lincoln Center Stages, " Comedy of Errors " at the Hudson Theatre Guild, " Barefoot in the Park " at the Westbury Music Fair, " Self Offense " with the Cucaracha Theatre Company, " Inventions of Farewell " at HERE Theatre ( a one woman show directed by Estep Nagy ), and " The Red Address " as Lady, written by David Ives.

The flight was conceived by the Russian Foundation for Social Inventions and TsSKB-Progress, a Russian rocket-building company, to increase trade between Russia and USA, and promote use of technology once reserved only for military forces.

His recent music includes the poly-rhythm installation " Talking Drum ", the " Inventions " series for computers and interactive performers, and the radio performance " Transmissions " series, with composer Guillermo Galindo.

Morgan's invention of the safety hood was featured on the television show Inventions that Shook the World.

* 1933 Modern Mechanix & Inventions magazine article about television authored by Dr. Young

Inventions originally created in the form of artwork can also develop other uses, i. e. Alexander Calder's mobile which is now commonly used over babies ' cribs.

Inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.