He also originated an ingenious invention which substitutes artificial for live pigeons as marks for sportsmen's gun.

Lighthouse automation began as long ago as 1910, thanks to an ingenious invention of Gustaf Dalén.

When summoned, he can grant riches, the power of discovery and ingenious invention.

Three things, above all, give the book the stamp of individuality: the large number of original, acute observations, especially on flowers, fruits, and seeds, made, moreover, before the invention of the microscope, the selection of the organs of fructification for the foundation of his botanical system ; finally, the ingenious and at the same time strictly philosophical handling of the rich material gathered by observation.

An original technique of painting wood in a goldish color without applying real gold is typical of Khokhloma, a remarkable and ingenious invention of Russian craftsmen.

The Wilson gearbox relied on a number of epicyclic gears, coupled in an ingenious manner that was also Wilson's invention.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

he certainly deserves not a little credit for the invention ''.

Tylor in particular laid the groundwork for theories of cultural diffusionism, stating that there are three ways that different groups can have similar cultural forms or technologies: " independent invention, inheritance from ancestors in a distant region, transmission from one race to another.

The voyage became the basis for the invention of the global system of Longitude.

It condemned him for his invention of dynamite and is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

The whole charge was sometimes said to have been an invention of Agamemnon, who wanted to have Cassandra for himself.

West ( 1967 ) for Alcidamas ' invention of the contest of Homer and Hesiod, N. J. Richardson ( 1981 ) against

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

Parkinson challenges the argument from moral objectivity by arguing that, for the argument to be successful, it must be shown that morality is objective and commanded by God, rather than just a human invention.

The invention of a form of bookkeeping using clay tokens represented a huge cognitive leap for mankind.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

But By the Way was one of the few features kept continuously running in the often seriously reduced Daily Express throughout World War II, when Morton's lampooning of Hitler, including the British invention of bracerot to make the Nazi's trousers fall down at inopportune moments, was regarded as valuable for morale.

After the invention of cannons, naval warfare became useful as support units for land warfare.

In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.

* Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery ( 1994 ) " for the invention of VisiCalc, a new metaphor for data manipulation that galvanized the personal computing industry "

There is no evidence for this and it is probably a post World War II invention.

Since their invention and subsequent proliferation in the mid-20th Century, ballpoint pens have proven to be a versatile art medium for professional artists as well as amateur doodlers.

In addition to mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds found industrial applications almost immediately after their invention in the 1950s ; another 3 billion carats ( 600 tonnes ) of synthetic diamond is produced annually for industrial use.

Although 19th-century ethnologists saw " diffusion " and " independent invention " as mutually exclusive and competing theories, most ethnographers quickly reached a consensus that both processes occur, and that both can plausibly account for cross-cultural similarities.

Significant individual contributions to the war effort by Scots included the invention of radar by Robert Watson-Watt, which was invaluable in the Battle of Britain, as was the leadership at RAF Fighter Command of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding.

In 1971, Bardeen received the IEEE Medal of Honor for " his profound contributions to the understanding of the conductivity of solids, to the invention of the transistor, and to the microscopic theory of superconductivity.

Among his many contributions to printing are: the invention of a process for mass-producing movable type ; the use of oil-based ink ; and the use of a wooden printing press similar to the agricultural screw presses of the period.

Neapolitan music has furthermore been highly influential, credited with the invention of the romantic guitar and the mandolin, as well as notable contributions to opera and folk standards.

* 2009: Robert H. Dennard for his invention and contributions to the development of Dynamic Random Access Memory ( DRAM ), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems.

He has also made a number of individual and important contributions to p-adic theory ; for example, Tate's invention of rigid analytic spaces can be said to have spawned the entire field of rigid analytic geometry.

His invention of propranolol, the beta adrenergic receptor antagonist that revolutionised the medical management of angina pectoris, is considered to be one of the most important contributions to clinical medicine and pharmacology of the 20th century.

Both the improvement of the chalumeau and the invention of the clarinet have been attributed to Johann Christoph Denner of Nuremberg, although his contributions are uncertain and in particular the clarinet may have been an invention of his son Jacob Denner.

Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius ( October 11, 1884 – March 30, 1949 ) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( 1931, together with Carl Bosch ) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods.

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 made many contributions to oceanography, including the discovery of the SOFAR Channel, the invention of the sofar bomb, and did much work fundamental on plate tectonics.

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.

Richard Ernest Bellman ( August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984 ) was an American applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.

His many contributions to biology include the development of cell theory, the discovery of Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system, the discovery and study of pepsin, the discovery of the organic nature of yeast, and the invention of the term metabolism.

Haynes was best known for his contributions to the study of DNA repair and mutagenesis, and for helping promote the concept of terraforming through his invention of the term, ecopoiesis.

One of the most important contributions of Wang was the invention of Wang tiles.

Leslie's main contributions to physics were made by the help of the differential thermometer, an instrument whose invention was contested with him by Count Rumford.

She is the winner of NASA's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, and was recognized as a 2000 Kilby Laureate, for " contributions to society through science, technology, innovation, invention, and education.

Although the eudiometer's invention is usually credited to Marsilio Landriani, it was truly pioneered by Count Alessandro Volta ( 1745 – 1827 ), an Italian physicist who is well known for his contributions to the electric battery and electricity.

* 1992, Scientific and Technical Academy Award ( Plaque ) for his contributions to the motion picture industry through the invention and development of the RenderMan software.

In June 2002, however, the United States House of Representatives passed a symbolic bill recognizing the contributions of Antonio Meucci "< u > in </ u > the invention of the telephone " ( not "< u > for </ u > the invention of the telephone "), throwing the matter into some controversy.

Palmer also innovated the Linear Weights method of estimating a player's offensive contributions, an invention that will likely be his lasting legacy.