The common English name nutcracker first appears in 1738 in a translation of a German travel guide, where it is a calque on the German name Nußknacker, as the bird was not recorded in England until 1753.

Sir Julian Huxley examined the evidence from specimens and literature and came to the conclusion that the bill gap was used like a nutcracker.

Decorative brass populuxe nutcracker by the industrial designer Maurice Ascalon

The first wood turner to carve the ornaments in this form, Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner from the Ore Mountains, is said to have been inspired by the nutcracker in the story book Tchaikovsky's ballet came from.

The story is told by the 10-year old protagonist, Johnny Briggs, who receives an army of toy nutcracker men from his father, a toymaker.

Snaffle bits commonly have a single jointed mouthpiece and act with a nutcracker effect on the bars, tongue and occasionally roof of the mouth.

A nutcracker is a mechanical device for cracking nuts.

The earliest use of the term nutcracker in English dates to 1481.

The most famous nutcracker carvings come from Sonneberg in Thuringia ( also a center of dollmaking ) and from the Ore Mountains.

Steinbach Nutcrackers have become popular in the United States as well, and the recreated " Bavarian village " of Leavenworth, Washington, even features a nutcracker museum.

The most common are the Clark's nutcracker, black-capped chickadee, mountain chickadee, boreal chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, pygmy nuthatch, red crossbill, white-winged crossbill, dark-eyed junco, and pine siskin.

The Pape's Nutcracker Museum features nutcracker displays and has all kinds of nuts, fruits, and treats for purchase.

Pluto has been assigned to guard a pillbox where the two chipmunks are storing their nut supply, with the large gun being used as a nutcracker.

Brendel's title for this variation is Industrious nutcracker.

Common birds include the Clark's nutcracker, Violet-green Swallows, and the Common Raven.

Christmas in the Ore Mountains: candle arch with nutcracker and smoking figurine s in Seiffen / Erzgeb.

These include achalasia, diffuse esophageal spasm, nutcracker esophagus and hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter.

Additionally, commonly seen species such as the gray jay, American three-toed woodpecker, mountain bluebird, Clark's nutcracker, mountain chickadee and pipit are frequently found in the lower elevations.

* The western American plant genus Clarkia ( in the evening primrose family Onagraceae ), is named after him, as are the cutthroat trout ( Oncorhynchus clarki ), and Clark's nutcracker ( Nucifraga columbiana ), a large passerine bird, in the family Corvidae.

Clara and Fritz are sad to see the dolls taken away, but Drosselmeyer has yet another toy for them: a wooden nutcracker carved in the shape of a little man, used for cracking hazelnuts.

During the night, after everyone else has gone to bed, Clara returns to the parlor to check on her beloved nutcracker.

It is one of two species of nutcracker, the other, Clark's Nutcracker ( Nucifraga columbiana ), replacing it in western North America.

When the actual title appears on the screen we see Baryshnikov in his nutcracker costume and mask leaping into the air in slow motion and freeze frame.

nutcracker principle.

It has two nutcracker rope tows, and covers 1. 9 km².

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr ( diatomaceous earth ) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as ' dynamite '.

' Gelignite ', or blasting gelatin, as it was named, was patented in 1876 ; and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.

In 1855 ferro-cement boat construction was patented by the French.

In the United States the first water caterpillar was patented in 1839 by William Leavenworth of New York.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

The Baudot code was created by Émile Baudot in 1870, patented in 1874, modified by Donald Murray in 1901, and standardized by CCITT as International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA2 ) in 1930.

A method for producing Portland cement was patented by Joseph Aspdin on 1824.

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

This was developed by James Parker in the 1780s, and finally patented in 1796.

In 1824, Joseph Aspdin patented a similar material, which he called Portland cement, because the render made from it was in color similar to the prestigious Portland stone.

Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.

Dynamite was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Krümmel ( Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany ), and patented in 1867.

Until Joseph Bramah patented the beer engine in 1785, beer was served directly from the barrel and carried to the customer.

Although Brewster patented kaleidoscope in 1817 ( GB 4136 ), a copy of the prototype was shown to London opticians and copied before the patent was granted.

* 1943 -' 46: The Common-rail ( CRD ) system was invented ( and patented by ) Clessie Cummins

* 1962 -' 65: A diesel compression braking system, eventually to be manufactured by Jacobs ( of drill chuck fame ) and nicknamed the " Jake Brake ", was invented and patented by Clessie Cummins.

Ludwig-Musser, William F. Ludwig Senior and his brother Theodor Ludwig founded the Ludwig & Ludwig Co. in 1909 and patented the first workable bass drum pedal system, paving the way for what was to become the modern drum kit.

In 1901, Jokichi Takamine patented a purified adrenal extract, and called it " adrenalin ", which was trademarked by Parke, Davis & Co in the U. S. In the belief that Abel's extract was the same as Takamine's, a belief since disputed, epinepherine became the generic name in the U. S. The British Approved Name and European Pharmacopoeia term for this chemical is adrenaline and is indeed now one of the few differences between the INN and BAN systems of names.