While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

While at General Electric, from 1909 – 1950, Langmuir advanced several basic fields of physics and chemistry, invented the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the hydrogen welding technique, and was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry.

While not invented by Macrovision, the company's products implement it.

While it is commonly assumed that traditions have ancient history, many traditions have been invented on purpose, whether that be political or cultural, over short periods of time.

While Magic 8 Ball did not exist in its current form until 1950, the functional component was invented by Albert C. Carter, who was inspired by a " spirit writing " device used by his mother, Mary, a Cincinnati clairvoyant.

While resident in Grahamstown he wrote some satirical sketches for local amateur dramatic entertainment and invented the character Caatje Kekelbek or Life Among the Hottentots ( 1838 ), also known as Kaatje Kekkelbek ( Katie Gossip ) who endeared herself forever to South Africans, and held John Philip and other missionaries up to ridicule.

While liquid fuel / electric hybrids date back to the late 19th century, the braking regenerative hybrid was invented by David Arthurs, an electrical engineer from Springdale, Arkansas in 1978 – 79.

While Nicolas Bourbaki is an invented personage, the Bourbaki group is officially known as the Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki ( Association of Collaborators of Nicolas Bourbaki ), which has an office at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

While being most known for inventing the Gatling Gun, Gatling invented and patented a number of other inventions.

While canyoners have used and adapted climbing, hiking, and river running gear for years, more and more specialized gear is invented and manufactured as canyoning popularity increases.

While the violent political culture was not invented by Seaga or Manley, and had its roots in conflicts between the parties from as early as the beginning of the two-party system in the 1940s, political violence reached unprecedented levels in the 1970s.

While this game closely resembles Keno, a game which was invented by the Chinese and predates the Han Dynasty, it is recognized as a variant of bingo and permitted in almost all jurisdictions.

While a surgeon in Philadelphia, Koop performed groundbreaking surgical procedures on conjoined twins, invented techniques which today are commonly used for infant surgery, and saved the lives of countless children who otherwise might have been allowed to die.

While selfmate dates from the Middle Age, helpmate was invented by Max Lange in the late 19th century.

While the drink is believed to have been invented by the Manhattan Club ( an association of New York Democrats ) on that occasion, Jennie could not have been involved, as she was in Europe at the time, about to give birth to her son Winston later that month.

While the Caffe Mediterraneum in Berkeley, California claims to have invented the caffèlatte in the 1950's, it was popularized in Seattle, Washington in the early 1980s and spread more widely in the early 1990s.

While with Rickenbacker, Kauffman had invented the " Vibrola " tailpiece, a precursor to the later vibrato or " tremolo " tailpiece.

While in Morocco she invented metal skis and suggested their use on aeroplanes landing on sand.

While there, Rabin invented the Miller-Rabin primality test, a randomized algorithm that can determine very quickly ( but with a tiny probability of error ) whether a number is prime.

* While working as the student sports reporter at Cornell, Troy invented a character named " Johnny Tsal ".

While freestyle dance is random and a personal dance invented by a single person ( even if it's based on someone else's dance style ), a full street dance is a collection of the various similar dance moves and styles collected into one practice and regarded as the same dance.

While based on the Latin alphabet, IPA also contains invented letters, Greek letters, and numerous diacritics.

While working with Pratt, Rogers invented an improved way of separating naphtha, a light oil similar to kerosene, from crude oil.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

While a hazy part of my mind concentrated on swimming down, a clear part sorted over recent events, among them my only positive act in a long time.

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

While Maitreya ( Pāli: Metteya ) is mentioned in the Pāli canon, he is not referred to as a bodhisattva, but simply the next fully awakened Buddha to come into existence long after the current teachings of the Buddha are lost.

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

While long integrated into Kei Island society, residents of these settlements continue to value the historical origins of their ancestors.

While many Chadians may share that assessment, the uprising appears to be a power struggle within the elite that has long controlled Chad.

While the cardinalate has long been expanded beyond the Roman pastoral clergy and Roman Curia, every cardinal priest has titular church in Rome, though they may be bishops or archbishops elsewhere, just as cardinal bishops are given one of the suburbicarian dioceses around Rome.

While mountain tops remain snow-capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

While this agreement reportedly kept the company in existence, it also left RuneQuest moribund, leading to products of questionable quality, long gaps with no products published at all, and, eventually, the death of the game altogether.

While they had the same skin color and religion as the majority, in the Churches, they had to use segregated doors, drink from segregated fonts, receive communion on the end of long wooden spoons.

While the economic underperformance of the Maritime economy has been long lasting, it has not always been present.

While Eugene has long been the second-largest city in Oregon, it was briefly surpassed by Salem between 2005 and 2007 .< ref >

While the sedimentation event itself might be relatively short-lived, the ecological disruption caused by the mass die off often persists long into the future.

While " flame wars " are not illegal, so long as they remain ad hominem, threats and insults said within them may break cyber laws.

While he slept, Frea told the Winnili women to comb their hair over their faces to look like long beards so they would look like men and turned the bed so the Winnili women would be on Odin's side.

While most of these migrations had an economic background, Germany has also been a prime destination for refugees from many developing countries, in part because its constitution long had a clause giving a ' right ' to political asylum, but restrictions over the years have since made it less attractive.

While music is an art form in itself, playing an instrument such as the guitar has long been a popular subject for painters.

While short strings have zero entropy, he could identify long highly excited string states with ordinary black holes.

While British cartographers had long used the Greenwich meridian in London, other references were used elsewhere, including: El Hierro, Rome, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Saint Petersburg, Pisa, Paris, Philadelphia, and Washington.

While the pro-democracy rallies had to deal with road blocks forcing protestors to either turn back or march long distances to Martyr's Square, Hezbollah was able to bus people directly to Riad Solh square.

While Labour Day parades and picnics are organised by unions, many Canadians regard Labour Day as the Monday of the last long weekend of summer.

While a few settlements on Lake Balaton, including Balatonfüred and Hévíz, have long been resort centres for the Hungarian aristocracy, it was only in the late 19th century that the Hungarian middle class began to visit the lake.