He invented the wobbleboard and introduced us to the Stylophone and didgeridoo. |
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Thank goodness Scotland invented tartan and the kilt and not the nylon shirt or the polyester jacket. |
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A boffin has invented a car that runs on grass, or pigeon poo, or privet cuttings. |
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For decades McGarrell has been known for complex paintings that jumble myth, invented fictions and surreal landscapes. |
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It still is a surprise when the country that invented basketball loses an international game. |
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As a boy I worked in my father's machine shop and at the age of 15 I invented a rotary engine. |
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He worked on geodesy but became interested in conformal map projections where he invented a quincuncial map projection using elliptic functions. |
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In this novel a 56-year-old bachelor plays out a baseball league he has invented using a variety of numerical charts and the roll of three dice. |
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One of the guys had this chemical engineering degree from MIT and invented black angel dust and I worked for him. |
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The first solution to this bottleneck appeared around 1765 when James Hargreaves, a carpenter by trade, invented his cotton-spinning jenny. |
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Fountain pens, with their own reservoirs of ink, invented in the 19th century, are occasionally used for drawing by artists today. |
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No one could really argue with the choice of lawrencium for element 103, after the man who had invented the machine for element synthesis. |
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He introduced us to a product that recycles waste plastic into fuel that was invented in Japan. |
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Yes it's excellently written and great at last to see a soap invented by a gay man finally able tell it like it is. |
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It was in that year that the original quartz clock was invented by W.A. Marrison and J.W. Horton. |
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The different styles in Imari ware are named after the region where they are produced or after the potter families who had invented the style. |
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One way to do it is to remodify our platform situation, which we invented for the worldwide industry. |
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His work, with its different theatrical styles and unique language, has invented an entirely new kind of theatre experience. |
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He invented an alternative biography about working-class roots, an upbringing in New Mexico and hopping boxcars across the country. |
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In 1730 he invented a quadrant which measured the altitude of the Sun or of a star. |
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As it turns out, Dr. Jekyll has invented a chemical formula that can turn a person into his alter ego. |
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In 1937, the process called Xerography was invented by American law student Chester Carlson. |
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The Akkadians invented the abacus as a tool for counting and they developed somewhat clumsy methods of arithmetic. |
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The Latin X came from Chi, a letter invented by the Greeks who used it to represent the sound ks in the Western part of the country. |
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I love numbers and always as an amusement, and more seriously than that, invented new algorithms to calculate them. |
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As soon as civilisation invented writing, stories began to be recorded on paper. |
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Anyway, this Professor Butz character has invented an elaborate electronic beer mat that sends out signals when the glass needs a refill. |
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It's the one word that we all wish had never been invented and then maybe it wouldn't exist. |
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When cuneiform writing was first invented in ancient Sumer, the scribes scratched signs on the moist clay by means of a pointed instrument. |
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Beaufort inhabited the scientific world dominated by the chronometer invented by John Harrison. |
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The view that coinage was invented by the Lydians is one that is generally accepted by scholars. |
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The look this year, I am happy to say, is Lycra, and Lycra was invented with Cuban bottoms in mind. |
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The use of woodblocks for printing text and images was probably invented in China. |
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The safety razor is believed to have been invented by a Frenchman, Jean-Jacques Perret. |
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More than a century ago, King Gillette invented both the safety razor and a new way of marketing consumer goods. |
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In 1815 he invented a safety lamp for use in coal-mines, after risking his life repeatedly in earlier tests. |
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New tools and weapons were invented to hunt the animals of the forests such as red deer, roe deer, wild boar, and cattle. |
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She invented the game to amuse the children of the workers, making pictures from felt scraps applied to the fuzzy side of table mats. |
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Thus, Indians invented the rubber-bulb syringe, now adopted worldwide for perfume atomizers and medicine droppers. |
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In 1940, aided by John Randall and Henry Boot from Birmingham University, Watson-Watt invented the cavity magnetron. |
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He invented logarithms independently of Napier using a totally different approach. |
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Bea is suggesting made-up names that sound like they could have been invented by a brand manager at an advertising agency. |
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By general consensus, he invented the devilishly complicated, deceptively simple-sounding rhythm that came to be known as Afrobeat. |
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It could have been invented for some other purpose, and then commandeered by the rationalizers of slavery. |
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As a boy I worked in my fathers machine shop and at the age of 15 I invented a rotary engine. |
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The Greeks invented the science of geometry with practical applications in architecture in mind. |
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There is no evidence whatsoever that Archimedes invented the Archimedean screw. |
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In my book, Thanksgiving is just some made-up holiday someone invented to sell more turkeys, so I wasn't going to do anything for it. |
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Why is it that almost everything in my home was invented by a white, mostly European male? |
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The book is full of invented tales and wild exaggerations of documented events. |
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He was advised and helped by his uncle Charles Wheatstone who invented the piece of electrical apparatus known as the Wheatstone bridge. |
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We applied a solid area of color first, and then we invented decorative patterns over the dry paint. |
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It did not matter that the tie was invented in eastern Europe and so was not specifically a Western fashion. |
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The apostles of the New Economy declared the irrelevance of everything invented before the Internet, and of any skills other than their own. |
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In 1669 he invented the Roberval balance which is now almost universally used for weighing scales of the balance type. |
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Sculley envisions some sort of wearable, always-on wireless connections that haven't been invented yet. |
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Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance. |
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He was made a life peer in 1992 but in 2000 was expelled by the party after claims emerged that he had invented an alibi in the 1987 libel case. |
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Our poems don't rhyme, because rhymes keep our chains of bondage on free thought, chains invented by men. |
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William Gibson couldn't have guessed how the word he invented would breed and infect the lexicon. |
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It is written in the wedge-shaped cuneiform script invented here and used throughout the Persian, Assyrian and Babylonian empires. |
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Distinctions between what is recreated, retouched and invented digitally are difficult to discern. |
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The Wright's may have invented the first real aeroplane, but the credit for the invention of the jet engine goes to Sir Frank Whittle. |
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One of the best things to happen to surfing did, however, happened in 1973, when surfer Jack O'Neill invented the leash, or leg rope. |
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It is also possible that science continues to produce technology despite the fact that results are often faked, data is invented and peer review is merely a rubber stamp. |
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Bruschetta and crostini are rustic foods, invented centuries ago as a way to use up stale bread. |
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Raphael Lemkin was, by all accounts, obsessed with genocide long before he invented a name for it. |
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Now, though, the boffins have seemingly invented a super salmon which is immune to diseases such as ISA and grows six times faster than the rate of normal farmed fish. |
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While they were invented in Shandong about seven years ago, they've just now caught on and are being mass-produced. |
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Thomas Edison is best known for inventing the lightbulb, but he also invented the phonograph. |
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Mao invented the class struggle, which reached its zenith during the Cultural Revolution. |
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Pennsylvanians invented both the pretzel and the animal cracker. |
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Without commanding, distinguishing words from their mouths, the narrative can be wholly invented for Kate and Letizia. |
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We found out that he had invented the stories he told us about his military service. |
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Byrne invented a deceased husband named William K. Richard and hid herself from census takers. |
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She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. |
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La brava claims to have invented the classic Patatas bravas, a spicy, addictive dish of fried potatoes smothered in brava sauce. |
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Advancement in science and technology was also sought by the rulers, and the Han invented paper, used water clocks and sundials, and developed a seismograph. |
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They assumed invented personae via performances and photographs during the '70s, many of them in backlash against the role-playing conformity expected of women in daily life. |
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The renowned 20th-century American botanist Luther Burbank first made a name for himself when he invented the Burbank potato. |
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Altera invented the first reprogrammable logic device more than 20 years ago and its original products are still used in devices being built today. |
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James Wood reminds us again and again that Flaubert invented realism and Bloom that Shakespeare invented us. |
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Johnson heard it all, and mischief-makers, flatterers, and his own paranoid imagination then invented even more. |
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He bent the truth throughout his life to ensure that he was known as the man who had invented the lie detector test. |
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He invented a particular tomb format whereby the deceased was guaranteed eternal mourning by the sculpted weepers that surrounded the sarcophagus. |
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One of the things I find funniest is invented rituals in the movies. |
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In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced. |
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In 1868 he invented the apochromatic lens system for the microscope. |
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Children invented pencil toppers in the same way they will dress clothespins, shoes, or hair curlers, detail dust pans, and lend sticker eyes to a fly swatter. |
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As theoretical objects, wormholes were invented and named in the late 1950s by American physicist John Archibald Wheeler, an early pioneer in the quest for quantum gravity. |
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The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was likely invented to help with trade, allowing merchants record their wares and account for their stock. |
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It is the brainchild of Marc Okrand, who invented a complete language, with its own vocabulary, grammar, and usage to make the Klingons sound, well, more alien. |
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Named after the Londoners who invented it, Cockney rhyming slang uses a group of words, the last of which rhymes with whatever's being referred to. |
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He claimed that he'd invented a method of recovering sound waves from the past and converting them into visual and acoustic reconstructions of history. |
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The Sami also invented their own musical instrument, a small reed pipe. |
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The co-founders of gray matter, the pharmaceutical company he invented and was then elbowed out of. |
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Nowhere is this pipe dream more obvious than in the history of Esperanto, one of the world's most well-known invented languages. |
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Several artists claimed to be the first to paint an abstract picture, rather as early photographers had wrangled over who had invented the camera. |
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John Hopkinson, the noted English physicist and engineer, invented this system. |
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Carbon fibre was invented in 1963 at the RAE in Farnborough by a team led by William Watt. |
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Sir John Herschel, son of the astronomer, from Kent, invented the term photography in 1839, meaning light writing. |
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The spinning jenny was invented in 1764 in Lancashire by James Hargreaves, a mechanical advance on the spinning wheel. |
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Frank Hornby from Liverpool invented Meccano in 1901, where Meccano Ltd would be based for over 60 years. |
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A major pioneering innovation in marine engineering was the steam turbine, invented by Charles Algernon Parsons. |
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Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and developed an important local company. |
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The Romans also invented socks for those soldiers required to fight on the northern frontiers, sometimes worn in sandals. |
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Whether such an institution existed is uncertain, but Simon Keynes argues that the idea is not an invented concept. |
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Morton's Fork may actually have been invented by another of Henry's supporters, Richard Foxe. |
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The pointed lightning conductor had been invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1749, while Benjamin Wilson invented blunted ones. |
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He observed, measured, dissected, built models and employed, invented and improved a variety of instruments. |
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Perhaps the most important invention in British history, the industrial steam engine, was invented in Birmingham. |
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The system of Alexander Cozens used random ink blots to give the basic shape of an invented landscape, to be elaborated by the artist. |
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New techniques were invented to allow mixing of the music, as this was before the era of multitrack tape machines. |
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It was here that cocktails like the sazerac and hurricane were invented as well as the liqueur Southern Comfort. |
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Caesium was the first element to be discovered with a spectroscope, which had been invented by Bunsen and Kirchhoff only a year previously. |
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Tetra Pak was an invention for storing liquid foods, invented by Erik Wallenberg. |
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He invented the pendulum clock, which was a major step forward towards exact timekeeping. |
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Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouze invented the aerophore in 1865. Their creation is considered the source of modern scuba equipment. |
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The Western movies, of course, are not cultural visions, but the vicious encounters with the antiselves of civilization, the invented savage. |
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Let it explode, it is the only safe explosion left, now that man has invented the ingredients of eternal atomic winter. |
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In addition to burlesque plays, operas and burlettas, the Italians invented two other species. of drama, pastoral and rustic plays. |
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Deicing boots were invented by the B.F. Goodrich Corporation in 1923 in Akron, Ohio. |
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She enrolled at the university under false pretenses, giving an invented birth date and lying about her qualifications. |
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Lithic analysts employ geomorphometric methods in order to characterize, measure and analyze stone tools with newly invented mediums. |
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Although invented in 1974, the number of moves required to solve any state of Rubik's Cube is yet to be determined after 30 years. |
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Although the milling machine was invented at this time, it was not developed as a serious workshop tool until somewhat later in the 19th century. |
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Some degree of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir Humphry Davy and independently by George Stephenson. |
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Another important invention was the Blanchard lathe, invented by Thomas Blanchard. |
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The metallurgist Eric Colbeck, when working at Hadfields Limited in Sheffield, invented boron steel for control rods for nuclear reactors. |
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Harrison also invented the bimetallic strip and the rolling bearing, without which most vehicles could not move. |
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Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd, where cat's eyes were invented by Percy Shaw, are in Boothtown, in the north of Halifax. |
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Silicone was invented 1899 by Prof Frederick Kipping at University College, Nottingham. |
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During the war he invented the cavity resonance wavemeter to find the first accurate value of the speed of light. |
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The collapsible baby buggy was invented in 1965 at Barby, Northamptonshire by Owen Maclaren. |
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Concave spectacles were invented around 1286 by an unknown Italian artisan, probably working in or near Pisa. |
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Sometime around 1840, he started to investigate the feasibility of replacing the brewery's steam engines with the newly invented electric motor. |
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Babbage also invented an ophthalmoscope, which he gave to Thomas Wharton Jones for testing. |
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The device only came into use after being independently invented by Hermann von Helmholtz. |
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He also invented the LU decomposition method in 1948, used today for solving matrix equations. |
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He also invented a nomenclature for exceedingly large numbers, the Conway chained arrow notation. |
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He invented the Heaviside step function and employed it to model the current in an electric circuit. |
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He invented his Operational calculus method for solving linear differential equations. |
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It was invented in France for industrial use and from 1933 to 1955 was used both in France and in the Soviet Union. |
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The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, often referred to simply as a Newcomen engine. |
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In 1833 a House of Commons committee found that Stephenson had equal claim to having invented the safety lamp. |
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The frame employed the draw rollers invented by Lewis Paul to stretch, or attenuate, the yarn. |
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The first lawn mower was invented by Edwin Budding in 1830 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud, in Gloucestershire, England. |
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The inflatable seatbelt was invented by Donald Lewis and tested at the Automotive Products Division of Allied Chemical Corporation. |
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During World War II, an American engineer, Charles Fletcher, invented a walled air cushion vehicle, the Glidemobile. |
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It consists of the physical concepts employed by and the mathematical methods invented by Newton, Leibniz and others. |
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Newton had previously invented the calculus, of mathematics, and used it to perform the mathematical calculations. |
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Henri Lebesgue invented measure theory and used it to define integrals of all but the most pathological functions. |
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Pakistani neurosurgeon Ayub Ommaya invented the Ommaya reservoir, a system for treatment of brain tumours and other brain conditions. |
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The Reformation was a triumph of literacy and the new printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg. |
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The cast plate glass process was invented in 1848, allowing the manufacture of very large windows. |
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Articulated buses were invented to improve the manoeuvrability of long buses capable of carrying a large number of passengers. |
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There was little doubt, according to Coke, that the plot had been invented by the Jesuits. |
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Recently invented bacon dishes include chicken fried bacon, chocolate covered bacon, and the bacon explosion. |
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Although gunpowder was first invented and described in China, Bacon was the first in Europe to record its formula. |
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Of course, there is no reason why some algorithm invented by mathemagicians should have an analogy in the way actual markets work. |
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Interest in the language soon died away, but Mary and others, including Tolkien himself, invented a new and more complex language called Nevbosh. |
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The conductor Sir Charles Mackerras believed that the term was invented by Lord Harewood. |
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As neither Waters nor Mason could read music, to illustrate the structure of the album's title track, they invented their own system of notation. |
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Another sport invented in the UK was baseball, and its early form rounders is popular among children in Britain. |
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It is believed the Club's first Baths Master William Wilson invented water polo at the Club. |
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This was followed in 1660 by Otto von Guericke, who invented an early electrostatic generator. |
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It pioneered globalization and invented what might be the first modern bureaucracy. |
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Arkwright had previously assisted Thomas Highs, who invented the spinning frame. |
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In 1838, Belgian lithographer Marcellin Jobard invented an incandescent light bulb with a vacuum atmosphere using a carbon filament. |
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Bell worked extensively in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. |
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His stories about the fictional Ann were inconsistent and he invented other people as frameworks on which to hang his tales. |
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Popper never invented this criterion to give justifiable use of words like science. |
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Carlyle's invented style was epic poetry combined with philosophical treatise. |
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On 31 May 1728, the Royal Bank of Scotland invented the overdraft, which was later considered an innovation in modern banking. |
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In the early 19th century, even as the old Gaelic harp tradition was dying out, a new harp was invented in Ireland. |
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It had gut strings and semitone mechanisms like an orchestral pedal harp, and was invented by Dublin pedal harp maker John Egan. |
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Metallurgists study the microscopic and macroscopic properties using metallography, a technique invented by Henry Clifton Sorby. |
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Engineer Zenobe Gramme invented the Gramme dynamo, the first generator to produce power on a commercial scale for industry. |
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Firearms were invented at around the same time, and lead, despite being more expensive than iron, became the chief material for making bullets. |
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He enjoyed music, including Welsh music and the newly invented crwth instrument, as well as musical organs. |
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It was invented for the German Bundestag after the Second World War and has spread to Lesotho, Bolivia and New Zealand. |
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During the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge began recording motion photographically and invented a zoopraxiscope with which to view his recordings. |
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It was invented by Linus Torvalds and is nowadays present on every Linux operation system. |
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This bizarre and inaccurate form was invented by European heralds in the Middle Ages, who knew little of foreign animals and made up the rest. |
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Alicia hated the person who had invented pan and scan, since the heightened panning effect aggravated her nausea when watching action movies. |
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Because of the novelty of the expedition, some of the equipment was invented or specially modified for the occasion. |
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Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves is a novel imagining how the version we have might have been invented out of older tales. |
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The sport of windsurfing was invented at Hayling Island, which is to the south east of the county. |
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Using a recently invented rubber suit and metal diving helmet, Deane and Edwards began to examine the wreck and salvage items from it. |
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Whether it was invented in Egypt or something they picked up from Mesopotamia via trade is unsure. |
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Computers were also invented and later miniaturized utilizing transistors and integrated circuits. |
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In doing so he evidenced a talent for and intuitive understanding of the principles of accounting, which was not to be invented for centuries. |
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The sugar block dispenser Pez was invented in Austria, as well as Mannerschnitten. |
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He invented his own cinematic style, Ukrainian poetic cinema, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism. |
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Amedeo Avogadro, made important works to molecular theory and invented Avogadro's law and Avogadro constant. |
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Italians invented many of the musical instruments, including the piano and violin. |
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Beach tennis with paddle racquet was invented by Italians, and is practised by many people across the country. |
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The Geiger counter, invented by Hans Geiger, is a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation. |
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Chebyshev's students included Aleksandr Lyapunov, who founded the modern stability theory, and Andrey Markov who invented the Markov chains. |
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Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev invented the Periodic table, the main framework of modern chemistry. |
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Gleb Kotelnikov invented the knapsack parachute, while Evgeniy Chertovsky introduced the pressure suit. |
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In fact, the ard may have been invented in the Near East to cover seed rather than till. |
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Man invented tools, discovered fire, and in short, began to emerge from the state of nature. |
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The ship's chronometer, the screw propeller, the locomotive, bicycle, automobile, and airplane were all invented in the West. |
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He also invented the equirectangular projection, which is still used in map creation today. |
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The vitrified, translucent ceramic known as porcelain was invented in China during the Tang, although many types of glazed ceramics preceded it. |
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Iranian cardiologist Tofigh Mussivand invented and developed the first artificial cardiac pump, the precursor of the artificial heart. |
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In 1531, he invented a bronze water pump that was able to pump water out ten times faster than the previous models. |
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There is evidence that New Guinea gardeners invented crop rotation well before western Europeans. |
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A popular sport among Limenos is fronton, a racquet sport similar to squash invented in Lima. |
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In 1730 the sextant was invented and navigators rapidly replaced their astrolabes. |
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Zuppa alla Pavese was supposedly invented on the spot to feed the captive king right after the battle. |
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It was the VOC that invented the idea of investing in the company rather than in a specific venture governed by the company. |
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Civilizations that used mail invented specific terms for each garment made from it. |
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The newly invented German printing press spread rapidly throughout Europe in the 15th century, and Venice was quick to adopt it. |
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The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. |
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It is also referred to as an artificial or invented language and in some cases a fictional language. |
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Lewis Howard Latimer invented an improvement for the incandescent light bulb. |
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More recent inventors include Frederick McKinley Jones, who invented the movable refrigeration unit for food transport in trucks and trains. |
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The beverage Vernors was invented in Michigan in 1866, sharing the title of oldest soft drink with Hires Root Beer. |
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Some traditions were deliberately invented for one reason or another, often to highlight or enhance the importance of a certain institution. |
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He invented the writ Quare ejecit infra terminum and was influential in the writing of several other novel writs. |
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The first plastic was invented by Alexander Parkes, an English metallurgist. |
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In the late 1850s, Henry Bessemer invented a new steelmaking process, involving blowing air through molten pig iron, to produce mild steel. |
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The Chinese invented blast furnaces, and created finely tuned copper instruments. |
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In 1748 Lewis Paul of Birmingham, England, invented two hand driven carding machines. |
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The first cotton mills were established in the 1740s to house roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt. |
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It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. |
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He improved the reed, and invented the raceboard, the shuttleboxes and the picker which together allowed one weaver to double his output. |
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The spinning jenny would not have been such a success if the flying shuttle had not been invented and installed in textile factories. |
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During the course of his illness, he invented and constructed several devices to mechanically ease his pain. |
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However, John Kay invented a loom in 1733 that incorporated a flying shuttle. |
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It is undisputed that he invented a perpetual carding engine in 1773, and invented an improved double spinning jenny. |
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The Catalan forge was invented in Catalonia, Spain, during the 8th century. |
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Cast iron was invented in China in the 5th century BC and poured into moulds to make ploughshares and pots as well as weapons and pagodas. |
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James Beaumont Neilson, previously foreman at Glasgow gas works, invented the system of preheating the blast for a furnace. |
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In the Hellenistic period Greek millwrights invented the two main components of watermills, the waterwheel and toothed gearing. |
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In 1799 William Murdoch, who worked for the firm of Boulton and Watt, invented a new type of steam valve, called the D slide valve. |
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He improved upon the hydraulic presses invented by Joseph Bramah, and in 1825 designed a huge press for testing chain cables. |
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In 1891 the gas mantle was invented by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach. |
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The gas meter was invented around 1815 and measured the amount of gas being supplied. |
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Flat burners were invented mainly to evenly distribute gas and light to the systems. |
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He also invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of incandescent light bulb. |
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Keller had invented the machine and associated process to make use of wood pulp in papermaking. |
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In the 1st Century AD, Heron of Alexandria invented a water valve similar to the fill valve used in modern toilets. |
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In 1620, Cornlis Drebbel invented a bimetallic thermostat for controlling the temperature in a furnace. |
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Loring Coes invented the first monkey wrench and Russell Hawes created the first envelope folding machine. |
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Candlepin bowling was invented in Worcester in 1880 by Justin White, an area bowling alley owner. |
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Sir Humphry Davy invented the carbon arc lamp in 1802 upon discovering that electricity could produce a light arc with carbon electrodes. |
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In the 1850s, many of these problems were solved by the arc lamp invented by William Petrie and William Staite. |
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He invented the compound steam engine in 1781 and patented it on 16 July in the same year. |
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One of the most remarkable astronomical instruments invented in Mughal India is the seamless celestial globe. |
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His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. |
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Vimto and Tizer are soft drinks invented in Manchester in 1908 and 1924 respectively. |
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Like most sensible sophonts, they invented civilization. With civilization came civility, civil service, and of course civil war. |
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Stapleless staplers, invented in 1910, are a means of stapling that punches out a small flap of paper and weaves it through a notch. |
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With all the inventions they have in this new land, you would think some man would have invented a zip-her for a talksome woman's mouth. |
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But the postcard was not invented in England until 1870, so Miss Barrett had no way of curbing her temulence to a dram of postcard-size. |
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The story I've always heard, as a Teslaphile, says that the concept was invented by Thomas Edison to scare people away from alternating current. |
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Mr. Plick was an inventor and had invented a noiseless garbage pail with undentable sides. |
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He likes dark, emotionally angry music. I like pop, upbeat, happy songs. That's why God invented 12 different pre-set stations. |
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I do not, however, wish to be awakened by Stevie Wonder and that is why God invented alarm clocks. |
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The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back. |
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His singing was accompanied by the distinctive sound of his famous wobbleboard, an instrument he invented himself, and the didgeridoo. |
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A United States company has invented a way of recovering N in the form of solid ammonium carbonate from wastewater. |
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George Angelet, owner and bartender of Sugar Bar in New York City claims to have invented the latest version of the ultimate-in-hip drink. |
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Kiln-fired bricks were invented by the Mesopotamians to create the complex towering ziggurats of the Sumerian and Babylonian empires. |
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He invented the job Master of Revels, then convinced everyone he was the best man for it. |
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He invented the Leg Adductor Relaxation Assistor a lightweight and affordable product which stretches the adductor muscle group. |
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Do what I do and tell them they were invented in China about 3000BC and were called rench ries, but don't expect them to laugh. |
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A wife who invented an electronic back-seat driver is set to market her machine throughout the world. |
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When I was 9, I invented a can opener, a lazy susan for the refrigerator and a malted milk machine from parts I found. |
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The method is an age-old phenomenon invented in India and is described in detail in the Rig Veda. |
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In creating his health biscuit, Dr Abernethy was following in the footsteps of Dr William Oliver, who invented the Bath Oliver. |
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The Abernethy Biscuit and the Bath Oliver were both invented by medical men. |
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Applying the principle of the stratospheric balloon to oceanographic research, he invented and constructed the bathyscaphe. |
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Cooper invented the split roller bearing and continues to lead its development. |
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This season, without such a duplicitous person, they invented one. |
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A little farther to the north is Roser Park, named after the man who invented the fig Newton. |
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The inflatable india rubber bladder and inflator were later invented by another Rugbeian, Richard Lindop. |
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Frege's conceptual notation was invented for the purpose of proving his logicist thesis. |
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It is not the only instrument invented by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax, but it is certainly the most successful. |
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And I know, move with the times, blah, blah, teenagers are clever because they've invented their own language blah blah. |
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Malted milk, which is a combination of ground malt, flour and dried milk, was invented as food for infants and invalids. |
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I invented the game because of an Ofsted report that said board games enhanced children's skills. |
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A trio of Master's students at the University of California, Davis have invented a breathing screw cap for wine. |
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Langley's bolometer, invented in 1878, actually had the capability to detect a cow's radiation from 400 meters away. |
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She tells us that brassieres weren't invented until 1913 and became popularly accepted during the flapper craze. |
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The dessert peach melba was invented in London to honour which Australian soprano? |
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But Frank, Norman and Les Bradley, of Birmingham tape engineering company Bradmatic, invented the Mellotron, arguably the original sampler. |
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ShopKeep is a cloud-based iPad POS system that was invented by a small-business owner. |
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I saw in the papers the other day that some other wise guy with no taste buds had invented dark chocolate hummus for our consumption. |
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Ashdown Forest in England where the Pooh stories are set is a popular tourist attraction, and includes the wooden Pooh Bridge where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks. |
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Banoffee pie was invented in 1972 in Jevington in East Sussex. |
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He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. |
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The book opens with the Time Traveler dining with learned peers in late 1800s England, where he is trying to convince them that he has invented a time machine. |
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Scholars regard it as very unlikely that the name was invented twice. |
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He invented the term eugenics and the phrase nature versus nurture. |
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The phrase's convoluted history is a bit of a bubbe meise itself.Today, the term bubbe meise is mostly used to describe an invented story or fantasy. |
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British Rail Research Division in Derby invented the APT and Maglev. |
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