Thomas Jefferson had tried to bring a French mechanic ( almost certainly Blanc ) and his methods to America in 1785, but the project never went anywhere.

Worldwide fame in 1933 brought him the commission of building a meditation temple in India for Maharajah of Indore, but when Brâncuși went to India in 1937 to complete the plans and begin construction, the Mahrajah was away and lost interest in the project when he returned.

The Who went on to further explorations of the concept album format with their follow-up project Lifehouse, which was abandoned before completion, and with their 1973 rock opera, Quadrophenia.

One of the only actors loyal to the project from the beginning was Bruce Campbell ( also a producer of the film and Raimi's childhood filmmaking partner ), who went through torturous circumstances as the character ' Ash.

Major projects attempted to encode wide bodies of general knowledge ; for example the " Cyc " project ( still ongoing ) went through a large encyclopedia, encoding not the information itself, but the information a reader would need in order to understand the encyclopedia: naive physics ; notions of time, causality, motivation ; commonplace objects and classes of objects.

Eventually, beset by delays and in spite of all of the media coverage and apparent demand for the machine, the project ultimately went under when Konix ran out of cash without a completed system ever being released.

She went to the Alps to meet the film's director, Arnold Fanck, hoping to secure the lead in his next project.

* Frank Stanton – Researcher from CBS sent to help the project, went on to become president of CBS.

Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein wrote The Race to Urga, scheduled to play at the Lincoln Center in 1969, but when Jerome Robbins left the project, it went unproduced.

Jem Finer went into experimental music, playing a big part in a project known as " Longplayer ", a piece of music designed to play continuously for 1, 000 years without repeating itself.

Many iterations later this system became the MIT " Tin Lizzy " wearable computer design, and Starner went on to become one of the founders of MIT's wearable computing project.

The rest of the year, many of the developers that were still active at XFree86 went over to the project that was being set up at the freedesktop. org and X. org domains.

Akkad went to Muammar Gaddafi of Libya for support to complete the project, Gaddafi allowed him to move the filming to Libya for the remaining 6 months until the film was finalized.

He had recently finished work on a similar project at Exeter College, Oxford, and went about constructing the Chapel of St John's College along similar lines, drawing inspiration from the Church of Saint Chapelle in Paris.

For Raeder, the first step towards persuading decision-makers to adopting navalist policies again was to end the damaging debates about what went wrong in the World War, and instead project a positive image of the Navy's history that was meant to sway decision-makers into navalism.

In 1961, when the Niagara Falls hydroelectric project first went on line, it was the largest hydropower facility in the Western world.

In the same year they recorded demos with Paul Arthurs ( ex-Oasis ), Aziz Ibrahim, and Rowetta Idah ( ex-Happy Mondays ) under the name Moondog One, but the project went no further.

Later on in 2006 GM went into the EcoJet concept car project with Jay Leno.

Groves went to Donald M. Nelson, the chairman of the War Production Board and, after threatening to take the matter to the President, obtained a AAA priority for the Manhattan project.

The Bat Chain Puller project went ' on ice ' and did not see an official release until 2011, when it was announced that the Zappa Family Trust would release the album.

Between about 1980 and 1991 the project was managed by Aaron Sloman, until he went to the University of Birmingham, though he continued to collaborate with Sussex and ISL on Poplog development after that.

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

O ' Brien subsequently went to work for Cooper at the new Cinerama corporation with plans to do a remake of King Kong using the new wide-screen techniques but ended up contributing a matte for the travelogue This Is Cinerama ( 1952 ) when this project also fell through.

The project went through several writers, including Christopher Hampton and Robert Bolt.

The system was not without its flaws ( the result of being largely a one-person project ), and the layout of Bliss ’ s text was difficult to read.

The project intended to reproduce the look and feel, organization, and feature set of CDE without using any CDE-derived code.

By the time the government killed the project in 1842, they had given Babbage over ₤ 17, 000, more than double the cost of a warship, without receiving a working engine.

'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."

However, Eric Broadley, Lola Cars ' owner and chief designer, agreed on a short-term personal contribution to the project without involving Lola Cars.

Like the Douro bridge, the project involved a lengthy viaduct crossing the river valley as well as the river crossing, and Eiffel was given the job without any process of competitive tendering due to his success with the bridge over the Douro.

To be considered a ' hack ' was an honour among like-minded peers as " to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style and technical virtuosity " ( Levy, 1984 p. 10 ) The MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club Dictionary defined hack in 1959 ( not yet in a computer context ) as " 1 ) an article or project without constructive end ; 2 ) a project undertaken on bad self-advice ; 3 ) an entropy booster ; 4 ) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack ( 3 ).

Softworks and Alacrity supported mixed formats and resolutions in real time and project output in different resolutions without re-rendering.

The 68000 grew out of the MACSS ( Motorola Advanced Computer System on Silicon ) project, begun in 1976 to develop an entirely new architecture without backward compatibility.

Isolate attempts to invite witnesses for scientific project ended without accomplishment ( ideological task, guiltlessness of method, imperfect technique, etc .).

The two have hinted at the project being close to beginning on several occasions without anything coming of it.

A telescope eyepiece can project the image, without filtration, onto a white screen where it can be viewed indirectly, and even traced, to follow sunspot evolution.

" On January 29, 2010, it was reported that Sam Raimi was searching for a new project after it was announced that the Spider-Man movie franchise would be rebooted without him.

Initially, his work was technically illegal to distribute without an AT & T source license, but, in January, 2002, those licensing rules were relaxed, allowing legal distribution as an open-source project.

The imposition of the import duty on tea and other commodities was the project of Charles Townshend, and was carried into effect in 1767 without consultation with Lord Chatham, if not in opposition to his wishes.

Partridge has said he would not continue XTC without Moulding, and that therefore he has been forced to regard XTC " in the past tense ," with no likelihood of a new project unless Moulding should have a change of heart.

Aircraft carriers allow a naval force to project air power without having to depend on local bases for land-based aircraft.

Columbia's " New Town District " zoning ordinance gave developers great flexibility about what to put where, without requiring county approval for each specific project.

Moreover, its alliance with Deutsche Telekom based on a reciprocal capital contribution of 2 % broke off when Deutsche Telekom announced that they were planning to do business with Telecom Italia without letting know the French – even if this project ended up failing.

During the fundraising for the project, it became clear that without larger designs, it would be impossible to raise sufficient funds.

By 1975 the telephone switch project was canceled without a prototype.