In the 1860s, an American, John Wesley Hyatt, acquired Parkes ' patent and began experimenting with cellulose nitrate with the intention of manufacturing billiard balls, which until that time were made from ivory.

Alexander Parkes and Spill listed camphor during their earlier experiments, calling the resultant mix " xylonite ", but it was the Hyatt brothers who recognized the value of camphor and its use as a plasticizer for cellulose nitrate.

His album Solaris ( released in 2000 ) saw Parkes taking his music in a new direction, with gloomy house tracks alongside free-form ambient noise and the usual snare drum attacks.

Parkes also worked with Nine Inch Nails on the album With Teeth by providing additional programming on " All The Love In The World " and remixing the single " The Hand That Feeds.

Parkes and Lasker came up with several different military-themed plotlines prior to the final story.

Over two meetings — the first with Cooper, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, the second with Cooper alone — Mendes pitched himself to the studio.

Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.

In 1866, Parkes tried again with his invention, and he created a company to manufacture and market Parkesine, but this failed in 1868 after trying to cut costs to enable further manufacture.

English inventor Daniel Spill had worked with Parkes and formed the Xylonite Co. to take over Parkes ' patents, describing the new plastic products as Xylonite.

He topped the poll and subsequently voted with Parkes, but refused to take a position in his minority government.

Parkes sent the Royal Navy to bombard Ye's palace and it was duly destroyed, along with a large part of the city and a large loss of life.

Traditional doom metal vocalists favor clean vocals, which are often performed with a sense of despair, desperation or pain ; imitating the high-tone wails of Ozzy Osbourne, Bobby Liebling, and Zeeb Parkes.

Surtees won one race, the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix, but departed after a row with manager Eugenio Dragoni ; he was replaced by Mike Parkes.

At this time, he negotiated with British diplomat, Sir Harry Smith Parkes on the ban of Christianity and insisted on maintaining the government's persecution on Catholics in Nagasaki.

She became a member of the Langham Place Group, which set out to improve conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes ( later Bessie Rayner Belloc ) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon.

* An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy, Comprising Subjects Connected with the Interests of Every Individual ..., by Thomas Webster and William Parkes, 1855.

For especially vital missions, like Voyager 2, the Canberra dish can be arrayed with the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia ; and the Goldstone 70-meter dish can be arrayed with the Very Large Array of antennas in New Mexico.

He did not like Parkes personally and felt he would be unable to work with him.

Parkes left the club on 18 May 2009 after a meeting with chairman Karl Oyston about finances.

On September 29, two envoys, Henry Loch and Harry Parkes went ahead of the main force under a flag of truce to negotiate with the Prince I at Tungchow.

Parkes and Loch were returned after two weeks, with fourteen other survivors.

Initially the judge found in Spill's favour, but ultimately it was judged that neither party held an exclusive claim and the true inventor of celluloid / xylonite was Alexander Parkes, due to his mention of camphor in his earlier experiments and patents.

The late 18th century and the early 19th century characterized by the Romantic movement in British art includes Joseph Wright of Derby, James Ward, Samuel Palmer, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Martin and was perhaps the most radical period in British art, also producing William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ), John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ) and J. M. W.

Unlike most of his novels, The Outward Urge was conventional hard science fiction and his publishers decided that they wanted to use the Wyndham and Parkes byline because it was " not your usual Wyndham style ".

The first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects was made in 1855 in Birmingham, England, by Alexander Parkes, who was never able to see his invention reach full fruition, after his firm went bankrupt due to scale-up costs.

In 1868, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt developed a plastic material he named Celluloid, improving on Parkes ' invention so that it could be processed into finished form.

* Parkes ' material was developed later in improved form as Xylonite by his associate Daniel Spill, who brought a patent infringement lawsuit — ultimately unsuccessful — against John Wesley Hyatt, developer of celluloid in the U. S. In 1870, however, the judge ruled that it was in fact Parkes who was the true inventor due to his original experiments.

Celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects was invented in 1856 by Alexander Parkes, it was later described as generally the first plastic and is used in various subsequent inventions, most notably movie Film stock | film.

The first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects is invented in 1856 by Alexander Parkes.

* 1896 – Henry Parkes, English statesman and politician ( b. 1815 )

Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.

New dances, such as Shadrack's Delight by Tony Parkes, featured symmetrical dancing by all couples.

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

Wyndham was born in the village of Knowle in Warwickshire, England, the son of George Beynon Harris, a barrister, and Gertrude Parkes, the daughter of a Birmingham ironmaster.

* 2009 – Harry Parkes, English footballer ( b. 1920 )

In the 1860s and 1870s, there was a fairly coherent " liberal " tendency, led first by Charles Cowper and then by Henry Parkes.

Measurements taken by Cyril Hazard and John Bolton during one of the occultations using the Parkes Radio Telescope allowed Maarten Schmidt to optically identify the object and obtain an optical spectrum using the 200-inch Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar.

Rupert Parkes ( born 1972, St Albans, England ), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles-based British record producer and DJ.

When talking about the album for an Australian interview in August 2012 Parkes said " It might well be my favorite album to date.

The metal is primarily produced as a by-product of electrolytic copper refining, gold, nickel and zinc refining, and by application of the Parkes process on lead metal obtained from lead ores that contain small amounts of silver.

From 1995 through March 2004, Phoenix conducted observations at the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia, the radio telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, and the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

* 1931 – Mike Parkes, English race car driver ( d. 1977 )

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham.

Development on WarGames began in 1979, when writers Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker developed an idea for a script called The Genius, about " a dying scientist and the only person in the world who understands him – a rebellious kid who's too smart for his own good.

The Genius began its transformation into WarGames when Parkes and Lasker met Peter Schwartz from the Stanford Research Institute.

David Lightman was modeled on David Scott Lewis, a hacking enthusiast Parkes and Lasker met.

General Beringer was based on James V. Hartinger, the then-commander-in-chief of NORAD who Parkes and Lasker met while visiting the base, and who, like Beringer, favored keeping humans in the decision loop.