In 1845, industrialist Peter Cooper ( who built the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb ), obtained a patent ( US Patent 4084 ) for powdered gelatin.

In 2010, Cryptomathic's founder, Peter Landrock was named a Finalist for European Inventor 2010 in the " Lifetime Achievement " category by the European Patent Office.

* Peter Craven, Michael Gerzon: Coincident microphone simulation covering three dimensional space and yielding various directional outputs, US Patent 4, 042, 779.

It was created by IBM scientist Hans Peter Luhn and described in U. S. Patent No. 2, 950, 048, filed on January 6, 1954, and granted on August 23, 1960.

The earliest chronological reference found for any shipwright bearing the name ‘ Holb ( o / u ) rn ( e )’ is that of Robert Holborn who was granted Letters Patent in 1543, along with Peter Pett and others skillful in shipbuilding.

The first list of Master Shipwrights appointed by Patent by Henry VIII included John Smyth, Robert Holborn, Richard Bull, James Baker ( father of Mathew Baker ) and Peter Pett.

Virtually nothing is known about him or his appointment as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, but the Patent Rolls of Henry III for the year 1250 record a " Grant to Bertram de Crioill of the residue of the waste and the wardship of the land late of John de Bendenges from 17 June this year until the full age of Thomas son and heir of Peter de Bendenges saving to the king the lands which the said John held in chief.

The Mae West was a common nickname for the first inflatable life preserver, which was invented in 1928 by Peter Markus ( 1885 – 1974 ) ( US Patent 1694714 ) with his subsequent improvements in 1930 and 1931.

* Peter Messerli, Vice-President of the European Patent Office, head of the DG Appeals

Peter Messerli was Vice-President of the European Patent Office ( EPO ) and head of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO known as DG3 ( Directorate-General, 3, Appeals ) from 1996 until his retirement at the end of November 2011.

By 1935 Lord Peter is in continental Europe, acting as an unofficial attaché to the British Foreign Office.

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

These discussions led to unofficial contacts with the British Northern Ireland Office under the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke, and with the government of the Republic under Charles Haughey – although both governments maintained in public that they would not negotiate with terrorists.

In the film Office Space ( 1999 ), character Nina says to Peter " sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays " suggesting Peter is not in a good mood.

* Peterboro – A hamlet in the center of the town, where the Gerrit Smith Estate and Peter Smith Land Office is located.

Sir Peter Ricketts also served as head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2006 until 2010, and will serve as the British Ambassador to France from January 2012.

Acting on a hunch, Lord Peter enquires at the Post Office for any uncollected letters addressed to " Driver ".

* Peter Frost, COO and Deputy Auditor General at the Victoria Auditor General's Office

The field contains individuals trained in philosophy such as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. of Rice University, Baruch Brody of Rice University, Peter Singer of Princeton University, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center, and Daniel Brock of Harvard University, medically trained clinician ethicists such as Mark Siegler of the University of Chicago and Joseph Fins of Cornell University, lawyers such as Nancy Dubler of Albert Einstein College of Medicine or Jerry Menikoff of the federal Office of Human Research Protections, political scientists like Francis Fukuyama, religious studies scholars including James Childress, and theologians like Lisa Sowle Cahill and Stanley Hauerwas.

In 1998 he became Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, taking over responsibility for the Millennium Dome ( and acquiring the nickname of Dome Secretary ) after the resignation of Peter Mandelson.

NYU's destruction or purchasing of many historic buildings, such as the Peter Cooper Post Office, have made it symbolic of change that many long-time residents fear is destroying what made the neighborhood interesting and attractive.

Whilst her deteriorating relationship with Unionists was the key reason Mowlam was replaced as Northern Ireland Secretary in October 1999 by Peter Mandelson, her move to the relatively lowly position of Cabinet Office Minister may have involved other factors, notably her health and her popularity.

In Office Space, Peter Gibbons, Michael Bolton, and Samir Nagheenanajar decide to divert the supposedly " rounded-off " portions of banking interest deposits after Michael and Samir learn that they will be laid off.

: Features reports on suspicions that British police officers are eating their suspects, Peter O ' Hanraha-hanrahan interviewing the government minister for ships regarding recent accusations, the IRA's use of explosives hidden in dogs, the immense popularity of The Bureau in Italy, the Home Office releasing the Sorted videos aimed at young people, and near-death experiences.

* Peter Gibbons ( fictional ), a character from the popular cult movie, Office Space

In January 2001, immigration minister Barbara Roche revealed in a written Commons reply that Vaz, along with Peter Mandelson and other MPs, had contacted the Home Office about the Hinduja brothers.

* Head of Singapore ’ s Civil Service, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance of Singapore, Permanent Secretary ( Special Duties ) in the Prime Minister ’ s Office and the Permanent Secretary for National Security and Intelligence Co-ordination: Peter Ong

The FBI Special Agent in charge of the investigation, Peter Ahearn ( At the time head of the FBI's Buffalo Field Office ), stated that there was no specific event triggering the arrests, which followed four to eight months of investigations.

* Office of the Chief Minister Peter Caruana

His mother, Carol Mary ( née Genereux ), was a sales counselor, and his father, Peter Fraser, was a former journalist who worked as a Canadian foreign service officer for the Government Office of Tourism .< ref name =" USA ">

The urban population for Chalfont St Peter and Gerrards Cross is 19, 622, the two villages being considered a single area by the Office for National Statistics.

Donaldson was appointed to Government by First Minister Peter Robinson, and held the position of Junior Minister in the Office of the FM from 2008 to 2009.

In 1999, she became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Hain while he was Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before in 2002 becoming Parliamentary Private Secretary to Dr John Reid, in his capacity as Leader of the House of Commons and Minister without portfolio.

In his book, Tarzan, My Father, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. stated that although rumors of Peter Weissmüller living to " a ripe old age, remarrying along the way and spawning a large brood of little Weissmüllers " were reported, no one in the family was aware of his ultimate fate.

On 12 September 1944, King Peter II called on all Yugoslavs to come together under Tito's leadership and stated that those who did not were " traitors.

In an opinion shared in some form or another by Harold Bloom, and Peter Alexander, early scholar Andrew Cairncross, stated that " It may be assumed, until a new case can be shown to the contrary, that Shakespeare's Hamlet and no other is the play mentioned by Nashe in 1589 and Henslowe in 1594.

The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

Peter Tomsen stated that up until 9 / 11 Pakistani military and ISI officers along with thousands of regular Pakistani armed forces personnel had been involved in the fighting in Afghanistan.

He sought and obtained a decree from Byzantine Emperor Phocas which stated that " the See of Blessed Peter the Apostle should be the head of all the Churches ".

Of his intent, Peter Watkins stated:

Appointments of former ministers of the Crown in the 1980s and 1990s were criticized by Peter H. Russell, who stated in 2009: " much of advantage of the monarchical system is lost in Canada when prime ministers recommend partisan colleagues to be appointed governor general and represent Queen.

The new Yugoslavian government under King Peter II, still fearful of invasion, stated that it would remain bound by the Tripartite Pact.

Peter stated that this event was the beginning of a continual outpouring that would be available to all believers from that point on, Jews and Gentiles alike.

A great deal of Star Trek spin-off fiction, in particular the novel The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, has stated that the leader of the Vulcan-Romulan migration was a close follower of Surak's named S ' Task.

As critic Peter Blake has stated, the importance of this show in shaping American architecture in the century " cannot be overstated.

Rumours of a possible reunion of the original Genesis line-up began circulating in 2004 after Phil Collins stated in an interview that he was open to the idea of sitting back behind the drums and " let Peter be the singer.

She also has stated that despite internet rumors to the contrary, she was never married to Peter Horton.

Filmmakers Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson stated that the reason the characters were omitted from their films was because, in their view, he ( Bombadil ) does little to advance the story, and would make their films unnecessarily long.

Archimandrite Minas Tigranian, after completing his secret mission to Persian Armenia ordered by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great stated in a report dated March 14, 1717 that the patriarch of the Gandzasar Monastery, in Nagorno Karabakh, had under his authority 900 Armenian villages.

Peter P. Everts, an agent of the mid 19th Century mines, however, stated the quality of Salisbury iron varied.

Officially, he was declared to have been poisoned, but the Swedish diplomat Peter Petreius stated that the bodies, which had been on public display, showed traces of a violent struggle.

* Cat Ballou is the favorite film of comedy directors Bobby & Peter Farrelly, as stated in The AFI 100 Years, 100 Laughs television special.

In the novel, it is stated that Peter made up these directions to impress Wendy and that they found the island only because it was " out looking for them ".

In her defense, she stated that her father Peter was her financial manager, and all financial matters relating to her earnings at the time had been under his control.

* Lloyd Robertson-Robertson, who had once stated that it was an honor to appear on Air Farce to parody himself, appeared in several Air Farce sketches, most notably in one where he, as the CTV news anchor, asks a correspondent, " Do you think I'm as handsome as Peter Mansbridge?

In 2004 Peter Kember stated: " I saw Jason live in LA on the tour ...

Concerning the group's reputation for womanizing and heavy drinking, Joey Bishop stated in a 1998 interview: " I never saw Frank, Dean, Sammy, or Peter drunk during performances.

In 1989 Unification Church leaders Peter Ross and Andrew Wilson issued " Guidelines for Members of The Unification Church in Relations with the Jewish People " which stated: " In the past there have been serious misunderstandings between Judaism and the Unification Church.