Misogyny was by no means an Athenian invention, but it has been claimed that in regard to gender democracy generalised a harsher set of values derived, again, from the common people.

The invention of the bicycle has had an enormous effect on society, both in terms of culture and of advancing modern industrial methods.

* Alternatively, the device's invention has been popularly attributed to Mary the Jewess, an ancient alchemist traditionally supposed to have been Miriam, a sister of Moses.

Later, beginning in 1982 with The Pogues ' invention of Celtic folk-punk and Stockton's Wing blend of Irish traditional and Pop, Rock and Reggie, there has been a movement to incorporate Celtic influences into other genres of music.

Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement of the scroll, the dominant form of book in the ancient world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the book prior to the invention of printing.

An instrument of more significance, the stereoscope, which – though of much later date ( 1849 ) – along with the kaleidoscope did more than anything else to popularize his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster.

Gosta W. Ahlstrom argues the inconsistencies of the biblical tradition are insufficient to say that Ezra, with his central position as the ' father of Judaism ' in the Jewish tradition, has been a later literary invention.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

One aspect of this struggle included what Terence Ranger has termed the " invention of tradition.

It has been identified as having " inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture.

Innovation and invention in 19th century America has been said to be attributed to the development of the patent system.

Its impact has been crucial to the success of the Voyager missions to deep space, the invention of the compact disc, the feasibility of mobile phones, the development of the Internet, the study of linguistics and of human perception, the understanding of black holes, and numerous other fields.

The invention of the making of types with punch, matrix and mold has been widely attributed to Gutenberg.

This has led some critics to attribute to Rousseau the invention of the idea of the noble savage, which Arthur Lovejoy ' conclusively showed misrepresents Rousseau's thought.

It has therefore been suggested that part or all of the passage may have been Eusebius ' own invention, in order to provide an outside Jewish authority for the life of Christ.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

Political bias has been a feature of the mass media since its birth with the invention of the printing press.

From early beginnings with the invention of the phonograph using purely mechanical techniques, the field has advanced with the invention of electrical recording, the mass production of the 78 record, the magnetic wire recorder followed by the tape recorder, the vinyl LP record.

The invention of the Internet has also allowed breaking news stories to reach around the globe within minutes.

Frame Technology can avoid the proliferation of similar but subtly different components, an issue that has plagued software development since the invention of macros and subroutines.

Lastly, the idea that the whole affair is a poetic invention has been raised.

Kenneth Waltz has argued that nuclear weapons have helped keep an uneasy peace, and further nuclear weapon proliferation might even help avoid the large scale conventional wars that were so common prior to their invention at the end of World War II.

Saqlain has been credited with the invention of the " doosra ", which is bowled with a similar-looking action to the off break but spins the opposite way, just as the leg spinner's googly turns the opposite way from his stock ball.

* Marvel Comics has trademarked two words of their own invention: thwip !, the sound of Spider-Man's web shooter, and snikt!

Furthermore, RCA also claimed invention of FM radio and won its own patent on the technology.

In 1914, Max von Laue of Germany won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, which was a crucial step towards the invention of X-ray spectroscopy.

Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part of the invention of the integrated circuit.

Later that year, he won first prize in the International Science Fair for the invention ; he was also recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.

Kurzweil won it for his invention of the Kurzweil Reading Machine.

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

Bell Telephone Laboratories needed a generic name for their new invention: " Semiconductor Triode ", " Solid Triode ", " Surface States Triode ", " Crystal Triode " and " Iotatron " were all considered, but " transistor ", coined by John R. Pierce, won an internal ballot.

For example, the odd metallic color of plastic made by accidentally adding a thousand times too much catalyst led scientists to explore its metal-like properties, inventing electrically conductive plastic and light emitting plastic -— an invention that won the Nobel Prize in 2000 and has led to innovative lighting, display screens, wallpaper and much more ( see conductive polymer, and organic light-emitting diode or OLED ).

The invention won 1st prize medal at the London Exhibition in 1862.

Binney's experimentation with industrial materials, including slate waste, cement, and talc, led to the invention of the first dustless white chalk, for which the company won a gold medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

* In March 1957, Ampex won an Emmy award for the invention of the Video Tape Recorder ( VTR ).

After some time there, Wu's high abilities and good fortune found her a position as a graduate student under the supervision of one of the world's leading physicists, Ernest O. Lawrence, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron particle accelerator and the development of its applications in physics.

He and Carl Bosch won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931 in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods.

He won the dispute and earned considerable royalties from Singer and others for sales of his invention.

Elias's sewing machine won the gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, and that same year he was awarded the Légion d ' honneur by Napoleon III for his invention.

On December 24, 1898, he won a bet with his friends that his invention with an innovative crankshaft could beat a car with a bicycle-like chain drive up the slope of Rue Lepic in Montmartre.

In 1997 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics ( together with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Steven Chu ) for his contributions to laser cooling ( and especially for his invention of the Zeeman slower ), a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Dr. Reiffel won the 2004 National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy for his invention.

The Pepper-box, known as the " Gun that won the East ", was the most common repeating handgun prior to the invention of the revolving cylinder.

After some 14 or 15 years of experiment, Appert submitted his invention and won the prize of 12, 000 francs in January 1810.

Research projects have won the National Award for Advancement in Science and Technology, the National Award for invention, and provincial as well as ministry-level awards for advancement in science and technology.

The invention won the Industrial Research 100 Award in 1966.

This is simply another invention by the scammer to make the victim believe that they have won.

Robert Bruce Merrifield ( July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006 ) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.