She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

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.

The general consensus in the scientific community, however, was to associate this type of complexity with Kolmogorov, who was concerned with randomness of a sequence, while Algorithmic Probability became associated with Solomonoff, who focused on prediction using his invention of the universal a priori probability distribution.

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 European acceptance of the numerals was accelerated by the invention of the printing press, and they became widely known during the 15th century.

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.

His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

The innovative aspect of the invention of the bow and arrow was the amount of power delivered to an extremely small area by the arrow.

Thus it was the Aeginetans who, within 30 or 40 years of the invention of coinage in Asia Minor by the Ionian Greeks or the Lydians ( c. 630 BC ), introduced coinage to the Western world.

This was achieved with the invention of the dimensionless Reynolds number by Osborne Reynolds.

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.

It is unclear whether the word dates back to the 5th century and was used by the kings themselves, or whether it is a later, 9th-century, invention.

In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through trolley poles by overhead wires, which actually preceded, and in many urban areas outnumbered, the conventional engine powered bus.

Another invention in the late Middle Ages was the use of Greek fire by the Byzantines, which was used to set enemy fleets on fire.

Even when, on the invention of gunpowder and firearms, the bow had fallen into disuse as a weapon of war, the prohibition was continued.

His invention filled a very particular need in the region and soon business was booming.

Yet there is now little doubt that the hollow-walled broch tower was purely an invention from what is now Scotland, or that even the kinds of pottery found inside them that most resembled south British styles were local hybrid forms.

He named his invention the " Trojan horse ".

The iklwa-so named because of the sucking sound it made when withdrawn from a human body-with its long ( c. 25 cm in ) and broad blade was an invention of Shaka that superseded the older thrown ipapa ( so named because of the " pa-pa " sound it made as it flew through the air ).

The invention was named for this city.

The PET / CT scanner, attributed to Dr David Townsend and Dr Nutt was named by TIME Magazine as the medical invention of the year in 2000.

The invention of the first transistor at Bell Labs was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.

Another states that a 15th-century legend from Milan gives the invention to the nobleman falconer Ughetto Atellani, who loved Adalgisa, the daughter of a poor baker named Toni.

In 1944, Anthony E. Pratt, an English solicitor's clerk, filed for a patent of his invention of a murder / mystery-themed game, originally named " Murder!

For example, the invention of bourbon is often attributed to a pioneering Baptist minister and distiller named Elijah Craig.

The first self-winding mechanism was invented for pocket watches in 1770 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet, but the first " self-winding ", or " automatic ", wristwatch was the invention of a British watch repairer named John Harwood in 1923.

The first invention of the series ( and the one making the most frequent appearances in subsequent stories ), the Flying Lab ( named Sky Queen ), was a giant VTOL research airplane the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

Folk etymology in Martinez claims the invention of the Martini cocktail and that it is named for the city.

However, his most impressive invention came in 1442, the world's first rain gauge, named Cheugugi ( source?

Takoyaki was first popularized in Osaka, where a street vendor named Tomekichi Endo is credited with its invention in 1935.

Credit for the invention of the first achromatic doublet is often given to an English barrister and amateur optician named Chester Moore Hall.

The invention of a super-strong material named Bulerite is partially responsible for this, which enables Earth to, at last, initiate a burgeoning space industry.

Morey seemed aware of contemporary internal combustion work – Hardenberg, who wrote a book on Morey ’ s engine, adeptly noted that in his 1825 draft Morey “ stated that he named his invention ‘ vapor engine, to distinguish it from the … gas engine .’” However, Hardenberg concludes that Morey could only have known of three engines similar to his.

Furlong is the inventor of an antigravity material named Furloy, and a Furloy-based invention called " the ball that bounces higher than the height from which you drop it.

The unit is named after the Swedish chemist Theodor Svedberg ( 1884 – 1971 ), winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on colloids and his invention of the ultracentrifuge.

The Steadicam was introduced to the industry in 1975 by inventor and cameraman Garrett Brown, who originally named the invention the " Brown Stabilizer ".

# A Catholic canon of Trier named Oembs, influenced by the doctrines of the " Enlightenment ", similarly attributed to the Fathers his own view of three similar natures in the Trinity, calling the numerical unity of God an invention of the Scholastics.

ICI's laboratories at Hornbeam Park were the location of the invention of Crimplene in the 1950s, named after the nearby Crimple Valley and Beck.

Although he is often credited with the invention of the repeating crossbow that is named after him and called " Zhuge Crossbow ", this type of semi-automatic crossbow is an improved version of a model that first appeared during the Warring States Period ( though there is debate whether the original Warring States Period bow was semi-automatic, or rather shot multiple bolts at once ).

" Embury credits the invention of the drink to an American Army captain in Paris during World War I " and named after the motorcycle sidecar in which the good captain was driven to and from the little bistro where the drink was born and christened ".