Biso Kotuwa, a peculiar construction inside a dam, is a technological marvel based on precise mathematics, allowing water to flow outside the dam keeping the pressure to a minimum.

The White City Stadium, built in short time for the games, held 68, 000 and was considered by some a technological marvel.

And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year ( the show itself, for Best Kinescope Show ; and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality ), Uncle Miltie ( he first called himself by that name ad-libbing at the end of a 1949 broadcast ) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed, and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might pull next.

The Mach 5, the car Speed Racer drove in the series ( known as the " Mach Go ," or simply the " Mach ," in the Japanese version ), is a technological marvel, containing useful pieces of equipment.

To say that this place is a marvel of technological innovation is like saying teenage girls found Elvis attractive.

Hill Valley now looks as a technological advanced marvel, owned by a now rich and powerful Emmett Brown, with even the iconic Town Hall replaced by a huge pane with the E. Brown Industries symbol.

Considered a technological marvel in its day, it played a critical role in opening the interior of the United States beyond the Appalachian Mountains to settlement and commerce.

Practitioners of the Celinist tradition make use of an object known either as the " Portal " or the " Heart of Tencton ," a technological marvel in the form of a small box with symbolic ornamentation, which is in fact capable of projecting virtual environments, including alien worlds, for its users to navigate as they attempt to reach a higher spiritual plane.

The hangar ( 360 m long, 220 m wide and 106 m high ), a technological marvel in itself, was a freestanding steel-dome " barrel-bowl " construction large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower on its side.

Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.

The twentieth century saw a burgeoning of technological applications of the large body of scientific knowledge that was by then in place.

Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

In northern Europe, new technological innovations such as the heavy plough and the three-field system were not as effective in clearing new fields for harvest as they had been in the Mediterranean because the north had poor clay soil, and the potato, otherwise ideal for Northern Europe, was an American crop unknown in Europe at the time.

" Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.

The theme of the fair was technological innovation over the century since Chicago's founding.

Throughout the period there was also significant technological change both in the production and transportation of goods.

The concept of the Dyson sphere was the result of a thought experiment by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, when he theorized that all technological civilizations constantly increased their demand for energy.

It was clear by that point in time that HDTV did not provide a sufficient technological basis for the foundation of digital cinema playback.

DARPA ’ s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U. S. into space.

* The Transformational Convergence Technology Office ( TCTO ) mission was to advance new crosscutting capabilities derived from a broad range of emerging technological and social trends, particularly in areas related to computing and computing-reliant subareas of the life sciences, social sciences, manufacturing, and commerce.

* The world ’ s technological capacity to receive information through one-way broadcast networks was 432 exabytes of ( optimally compressed ) information in 1986, 715 ( optimally compressed ) exabytes in 1993, 1, 200 ( optimally compressed ) exabytes in 2000, and 1, 900 in 2007.

One of the first technological precursors of film is the pinhole camera, followed by the more advanced camera obscura, which was first described in detail by Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), and later perfected by Giambattista della Porta.

By the 1960s science fiction was combining sensationalism with political and technological critiques of society.

Bel Gedde ’ s ‘ future ’ was synonymous with technological process, no less in its simulated low-flying airplane journey through the exhibit.

In a 2010 interview by Kevin Kelly for an article in Wired Magazine, Brooks was asked " What do you consider your greatest technological achievement?

It provided a technological advantage, and was responsible for many key Byzantine military victories, most notably the salvation of Constantinople from two Arab sieges, thus securing the Empire's survival.

In many cities, the new railway shops were the centres of technological awareness and training, so that by 1850, Germany was self-sufficient in meeting the demands of railroad construction, and the railways were a major impetus for the growth of the new steel industry.

During the late 18th century and early 19th century, there was considerable social upheaval as a largely agrarian society was transformed by technological advances and increasing mechanization, which was the Industrial Revolution.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

Some of Simon's economic research was directed toward understanding technological change in general and the information processing revolution in particular.

Largely under the influence of the Hungarian-born economists Nicholas Kaldor and Thomas Balogh, an idiosyncratic " Selective Employment Tax " ( SET ) was introduced that was designed to tax employment in the service sectors while subsidising employment in manufacturing ( the rationale proposed by its economist authors derived largely from claims about potential economies of scale and technological progress, but Wilson in his memoirs stressed the tax's revenue-raising potential ).

He also promoted groundbreaking science and technological innovations by supporting such works as the astronomical clock tower designed and built by the engineer Zhang Sixun.

Plantinga asserts that the design plan does not require a designer: " it is perhaps possible that evolution ( undirected by God or anyone else ) has somehow furnished us with our design plans ", but the paradigm case of a design plan is like a technological product designed by a human being ( like a radio or a wheel ).

The IBM 7090 was a second-generation transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers and was designed for " large-scale scientific and technological applications ".

The reverse of the regular-issue coin, designed by Bruce Rushin, bears a concentric design symbolically representing technological development from the Iron Age, through the Industrial Revolution and the Electronic Age to the Internet, with the inscription above the design and the date below.

The World Values Surveys were designed to test the hypothesis that economic and technological changes are transforming the basic values and motivations of the publics of industrialized societies.

The development of DVD region codes, and equivalent regional-lockout techniques in other media, are examples of technological features designed to limit the flow of goods between national markets, effectively fighting the grey market that would otherwise develop.

The Humanities Project, also known as a Sufficiency, is designed to assess well-roundedness in areas outside of technological knowledge.

Other examples of technological continuity are displayed at the Battle of Coruscant, in which ARC-170 starfighters were designed with S-foils, much like X-wings of the original films.

When he failed to find suitable reference works, he undertook the task of writing one from scratch while designing what he called the ' Eixample ', borrowing a few technological ideas from his contemporaries to create a unique, thoroughly modern integrated concept that was carefully considered rather than whimsically designed.

He helped initiate a $ 1. 35 million fund to create " centers of innovation ," designed to position Maine at the cutting edge of the next technological change.

As a general concept it implies precision, and is any technological or tactical solution or system ( often for a military application ) designed to prevent an undesirable outcome in the process.

The largest technological center of its kind in the country, it is designed to help treat disabled veterans and help them with their transition back into the community.

The milestones were necessary steps in the technological development before flight control instruments could begin to be designed.

Annually since 1979, the Festival has featured a lineup of symposia, exhibitions, performances and events designed to further an artistic and scientific confrontation with the social and cultural phenomena that are the consequences of technological change.

The graduate diploma programme in Information-Communication Technology ( G Dip ICT ) is designed to meet the formal training needs of graduate professionals in the face of rapid technological changes and increasing demand for manpower skilled in information communication technologies.

The machines designed in FDS, among others, are Glibo I, Glibo II, Glibo III, Glibo IV and Glibo V. Today, the machines are primarily important as museum pieces, as they indicate the technological process in the factory.

#*( c ) are primarily designed, produced, adapted or performed for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of, any effective technological measures.

# For the purposes of this Directive, the expression ' technological measures ' means any technology, device or component that, in the normal course of its operation, is designed to prevent or restrict acts, in respect of works or other subjectmatter, which are not authorised by the rightsholder of any copyright or any right related to copyright as provided for by law or the sui generis right provided for in Chapter III of Directive 96 / 9 / EC.

( A ) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title ;

( A ) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof ;

" By mitigating the economic effects of government interventions designed to promote ecologically sustainable activities, efficiency-improving technological progress may make the imposition of these interventions more palatable, and more likely to be implemented.

The school is designed to integrate academic and technological education in career clusters that require students to have a strong background in mathematics and science.