In the summer of 1663, he read Wingate's Canon, William Oughtred's Canon, and Thomas Stirrup's Art of Dialling.

Elias Ashmole was ( according to Aubrey ) a neighbour in Surrey, though Ashmole's estates acquired by marriage were over the county line in Berkshire ; and Oughtred's name has been mentioned in purported histories of early freemasonry, a suggestion that Oughtred was present at Ashmole's 1646 initiation going back to Thomas De Quincey.

* Jacqueline Anne Stedall, Ariadne's Thread: The Life and Times of Oughtred's Clavis, Annals of Science, Volume 57, Issue 1 January 2000, pp. 27 – 60.

A critical factor in making interchangeable metal parts was the invention of several machine tools, such as the slide rest lathe, screw cutting lathe, turret lathe, milling machine and metal planer.

The doors of the lower section slide to the side like a sash window, probably Pepys ' own invention.

The 17th century saw also the invention of some very powerful calculating tools like Napier's bones, logarithmic tables and the slide rule which, for their ease of use by scientists in multiplying and dividing, ruled over and impeded the use and development of mechanical calculators until the production release of the arithmometer in the mid 19th century.

The invention of the slide rule involved Oughtred in a priority dispute with Delamain.

Interchangeability of parts was achieved by combining a number of innovations and improvements in machining operations and the invention of several machine tools, such as the slide rest lathe, screw-cutting lathe, turret lathe, milling machine and metal planer.

His slide ruler invention ( U. S. patent # 7961 ) was filed with the United States Patent Office on March 4, 1851.

Following a 1959 Australian decision (" NRDC "), they believe that it is not possible to grasp the invention concept in a single rule.

One literary tradition claims that Decius was betrayed by his successor Trebonianus Gallus, who was involved in a secret alliance with the Goths but this cannot be substantiated and was most likely a later invention since Gallus felt compelled to adopt Decius ' younger son, Gaius Valens Hostilianus, as joint emperor even though the latter was too young to rule in his own right.

By destroying Israel, by the Shoah, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful.

The principle states that truth is verified through creation or invention and not, as per Descartes, through observation: “ The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it.

The most compelling evidence is his name: " Tullus " is a unique praenomen in Roman culture, and his gentile name is obscure and linguistically archaic enough to rule out the possibility that he was a crude later invention.

The Court reasoned that although the Lanham Act forbids a reverse passing off, this rule regarding the misuse of trademarks is trumped by the fact that once a copyrighted work ( or, for that matter, a patented invention ) passes into the public domain, anyone in the public may do anything they want with the work, with or without attribution to the author.

* the " enemy " is an invention of the Shing rulers themselves to try and ensure through fear that world peace endures under their benevolent, if misunderstood, rule ;

The conventional design of a sliding middle section for a linear rule was an invention of the 1650s.

Halley only communicated to Newton the fact " that Hooke had some pretensions to the invention of the rule for the decrease of gravity being reciprocally as the squares of the distances from the centre ," acknowledging at the same time that, though Newton had the notion from him, " yet the demonstration of the curves generated thereby belonged wholly to Newton.

Alternatively, Marsden claimed that god was an invention of the self in its attempt to encompass the world and rule over it, hence, a positive, freeing idea.

The doctrine of equivalents is a legal rule in most of the world's patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement even though the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention.

This rule would likewise apply in breaking a length of wall, or any other too great continuation of line that it may be found necessary to break by crossing or hiding it with some other object: In short, in applying this invention, generally speaking, or to any other case, whether of light, shade, form, or color, I have found the ratio of about two thirds to one third, or of one to two, a much better and more harmonizing proportion, than the precise formal half, the two-far-extending four-fifths — and, in short, than any other proportion whatever.

The concept of a " Hairfair dynasty " is probably an invention from the later mediaeval period, when rivalry between throne pretenders made it appropriate to trace royal lineages back to the 9th century in order to gain legitimacy for their rule.

" Bras are a ludicrous invention ," she wrote, " but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

A first-to-file priority rule does not permit one individual to copy another ’ s invention and then, by virtue of being the first to file a patent application, be entitled to a patent.

These consisted of a metal pipe placed on a smaller pipe that when struck with the disc made a gong type sound, while these were much more accurate than a tree, arguments and disagreements led to the invention of the Disc Pole Hole by Ed Headrick in 1975.

The main invention in Zyklon B consisted of the absorption of liquid hydrocyanic acid into a highly porous adsorbent.

Until his invention, they had consisted of a leather socket and a heavy steel frame, and either had a heavy cosmetic hand in a glove, a rudimentary mechanical hand, or a passive hook incapable of prehension.

The demonstration of his eventual solution consisted of a lens mounted in a small, empty tomato purée can, an internal device which is the principle of the invention, and a piece of film fixed inside the can.

This invention consisted of a rod placed in front of the keyboard.

His invention consisted of putting interruptions in the flighting of a compression screw.

In the film adaptation, the origin of unstable molecules was not a deliberate invention on Reed's part, but actually mere chance ; the FF's suits consisted of an all-purpose bodysuit that Victor von Doom and Susan Storm had developed to be worn under their astronaut suits while on the survey mission that resulted in the team acquiring their powers, the suits thus being exposed to the same cosmic radiation as their wearers and gaining the ability to change in the same manner.

Based on this invention, he founded the company Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske on 1 October 1847, with the company taking occupation of its workshop on 12 October.

The invention of dry plate photography in 1882 made taking photographs easier and cheaper than before.

There are a lot of references that are hard to miss, such as the fact that the little boy winds up being Charlie Chaplin, the detective is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who goes on to writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and Roy talks about Zeppelins " taking off " and being a successful invention despite what will happen to the Hindenburg in 1937.

The concept of taking a vacation is a recent invention, and has developed through the last two centuries.

Bessler demonstrated the operation of his wheel before various audiences, always taking care that the mechanism within the wheel should remain hidden from view, purportedly to prevent others from stealing his invention.

There is no historical evidence of this disagreement ever taking place and was likely an invention of Irving's.

In 1523, taking advantage of the recent invention of the printing press, Tyndale began to cast the Scriptures into English.

After taking a brief lesson in ' Romantic Karate ' from Chop Chop Master Onion, Parappa and his friends get shrunk by his father's invention, so he helps coach them back to normal size with the help of Guru Ant.

According to McLuhan, the invention of movable type greatly accelerated, intensified, and ultimately enabled cultural and cognitive changes that had already been taking place since the invention and implementation of the alphabet, by which McLuhan means phonemic orthography.

There was also an elasticized band available that had two connected loops, one to be worn on each leg just blow the knee, underneath the skirt ; this invention also kept women from taking too large of a stride and tearing the skirt fabric.

: Is there any teaching in the prior art, as a whole, that would, not simply could, have prompted the skilled person, faced with the objective technical problem formulated when considering the technical features not disclosed by the closest prior art, to modify or adapt said closest prior art while taking account of that teaching teaching of the prior art, not just the teaching of the closest prior art, thereby arriving at something falling within the terms of the claims, and thus achieving what the invention achieves?

Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia named it an AMG Album Pick, noting that it tops its " brilliant " predecessor by " taking their unique sound to unprecedented heights of invention and inspiration.

Lipskerov's style is a mixture of realism and fantasy ; while the focus of his writing is on establishing the personal relations between the characters, the latter often function in a world, in which Russian reality is transformed through both explicit invention and blending of different periods in a single " community ", where the action is taking place.

T 641 / 00 ( Comvik / Two Identities ) states that, " An invention consisting of a mixture of technical and non-technical features and having technical character as a whole is to be assessed with respect to the requirement of inventive step by taking account of all those features which contribute to said technical character whereas features making no such contribution cannot support the presence of inventive step.

To the Babylonian astronomer Kidinnu ( in Greek or Latin, Kidenas or Cidenas ) has been attributed the invention ( 5th or 4th century BC ) of a system " B " for predicting the position of the moon, taking account that the moon continually changes its speed along its path relative to the background of fixed stars.

At this point, a pickpocket ( also Billy Armstrong ) holds up the Count, but instead of taking his money he agrees to join the caper to liberate Dr. Nutt of his invention.