One of the first technological precursors of film is the pinhole camera, followed by the more advanced camera obscura, which was first described in detail by Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), and later perfected by Giambattista della Porta.

One deck represents random Alpha Mutations, which can be drawn to gain temporary powers, and the other contains various Omega Tech, powerful technological devices that could possibly backfire on those that use them.

One of the most influential texts that he read was Cheng Kuan-ying's Sheng-shih Wei-yen ( Words of Warning to an Affluent Age ), a political tract that lamented the deterioration of Chinese power in East Asia, arguing for technological, economic and political reform, modelling China on the representative democracies of the western world.

One of these planets was Earth during the Triassic period where the Nuwali chose a valley in Antarctica surrounded by active volcanoes, where they installed a number of advanced technological devices in order to maintain a tropical climate.

One notable example of a technological and libertarian socialist utopia is Scottish author Iain Banks ' Culture.

* One prediction ( by Ray Kurzweil ) places the emergence of the technological singularity in 2045.

* One side can have a technological advantage which outweighs the numerical advantage of the enemy ; the decisive English longbow at the Battle of Crécy is an example.

One criticism is on how the new series has revolved around the dealing with and acquisition of ever more powerful artifacts and entities, in a kind of technological / magical arms race.

One of the central principles of Industrial Ecology is the view that societal and technological systems are bounded within the biosphere, and do not exist outside of it.

One of his main arguments in Small is Beautiful is that we cannot consider the problem of technological production solved if it requires that we recklessly erode our finite natural capital and deprive future generations of its benefits.

One example of technological innovation is in plant genetics whereby the biological characteristics of species can be changed by employing genetic modification to alter biological dependence on the most limiting resource.

One potential problem with fusing intimate media and technology is that most technological intimate media is stored rather than displayed — it lives on hard drives, CDs, and the internet.

One example of this " technological disconnect " is documented in The Hostile Hospital, where the Baudelaire children send a message via Morse code on a telegraph, yet in the Last Chance General Store, there is fiber-optic cable for sale.

One reviewer called the novel " a well-written and very creative, if flawed, piece of work " and ranked it as one of the more important works of fiction to deal with the idea of a technological singularity.

One view to technically segment market, offering and market clearing stems from the scientific and technological objective of market agents:

Some commentators have drawn comparisons between the relative inexpense of the Tier One program and the high cost of the Space Shuttle program, though the technological difficulties of the two programs are completely different.

One major technological advance was the extended use of the holes after drilling.

One of the most important technological development of the Renaissance was the invention of the caravel.

One important technological advance was the saqiya, an oxen-powered water wheel, that was introduced in the Roman period and helped increase yields and population density.

One assertion of a cause of success of the Chemical Society of London is that it was, unlike its forerunners, a " fruitful amalgamation of the technological and academic chemist ".

One of the main technological developments of the 1990s was the World Wide Web.

One of the leaders in wireless computing, the College received the National Innovation in Technology Award by Apple Computers and continues to be on the cusp of technological innovations in higher education.

One technological improvement that fire departments would employ would be thermal imaging detection of differences in heat.

One of the leading Polish philosophers of Positivism ; novelist and short-story writer, Bolesław Prus ( The Outpost, The Doll, The New Woman ), advised his compatriots that Poland's place in the world would be determined by the sum of her contributions made to the world's scientific, technological, economic and cultural progress.

One use of economic-growth data from the national accounts is in growth accounting across longer periods of time for a country or across to estimate different sources of growth, whether from growth of factor inputs or technological change.

One innovation is a metal bar called a truss rod, which is incorporated into the neck to strengthen it and provide adjustable counter-tension to the stress of the strings.

One significant innovation was the use of a fire-tube boiler, invented by French engineer Marc Seguin that gave improved heat exchange.

One limitation to this innovation is the fact that electrical interference is a possibility.

One innovation that helped create the sound of the modern piano was the use of a strong iron frame.

One Viking innovation was the ' beitass ', a spar mounted to the sail that allowed their ships to sail effectively against the wind.

One more important innovation in communications was the Penny Black, the first postage stamp, which standardised postage to a flat price regardless of distance sent.

One was the innovation in tragicomedy initiated by John Fletcher and developed in the early Beaumont and Fletcher collaborations.

One innovation was the introduction of the forest laws and the setting aside of large sections of England as royal forest subject to the newly introduced forest law.

One such innovation, the Extended Virtual Table, separates the virtual from the real by including beam-splitter mirrors attached to the ceiling at an adjustable angle.

One true innovation of the system was the People, Places and Things metaphor that attempted to provide the user with tools to easily move documents around between people and things ( like fax machines ) as easily as they could print them using current technologies.

One driver for innovation programs in corporations is to achieve growth objectives.

One survey across a large number of manufacturing and services organizations found, ranked in decreasing order of popularity, that systematic programs of organizational innovation are most frequently driven by: Improved quality, Creation of new markets, Extension of the product, range, Reduced labor costs, Improved production processes, Reduced materials, Reduced environmental damage, Replacement of products / services, Reduced energy consumption, Conformance to regulations.

One model suggests that there are kinds to produce growth, innovation, speed, etc.

Strange Adventures # 207 ( Dec. 1967 ): One of Adams ' earliest DC Comics covers, and his first for his signature character Deadman, already shows a mature style and a design innovation for the time.

In 1687 he made the daring innovation of lecturing in German instead of Latin and gave a lecture on the topic " How One Should Emulate the French Way of Life ," referring to the French use of their native language not only in everyday life but in scholarship as well ; according to scholar Klaus Luig, this event marks the real beginning of the Enlightenment in Germany.

One innovation was made, namely, that the Legislative Body was elected by universal suffrage, but it had no right of initiative, all laws being proposed by the executive power.

One innovation of S & T was its feedback system, in which readers could answer various multiple-choice questions on a return card, whose data would then be entered into a Burroughs minicomputer for analysis.

This innovation was originally created in Formula One by Lotus in 1978, and was immediately used on the Chaparral Champ Car in 1979.

One innovation was destined to have an enormous influence on the art of the future: Nero placed mosaics, previously restricted to floors, in the vaulted ceilings.

One of the great innovations of the carriage was the invention of the suspended carriage or the chariot branlant ( though whether this was a Roman or medieval innovation remains uncertain ).

His next major innovation was the introduction of monocoque chassis construction to automobile racing, with the revolutionary 1962 Lotus 25 Formula One car.

One Saab innovation, inspired by the company's roots in aeronautics, was the ' Black Panel ' feature ( available on S or SE models only ), which extinguished most instrument panel lights at the touch of a button on the SID, to eliminate distraction from dash lights during night driving.

One critique compared EA to companies like Ubisoft and concluded that EA's innovation in new and old IPs " Crawls along at a snail's pace ," while even the company's own CEO, John Riccitiello, acknowledged the lack of innovation seen in the industry generally, saying, " We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play.

One innovation in HSCSD is to allow different error correction methods to be used for data transfer.