No, hydraulic earth block machines have been around for several decades.  One of the first to be designed was the Cinva-ram, which is a hand-operated press that was first used by the PeaceCorps for housing projects in Central America and Africa.  Today, CEB machines are operating around the world to provide both affordable and custom homes.  Back to Top

No. There were already female nurses in British hospitals. What she did was to make it safe for single women to be employed as nurses. This opened up a new career opportunity for middle-class women, and improved the quality and quantity of female nurses.

This is not as straight-forward a question as it first appears. What do you mean by language? If you mean something usable for normal conversation, then possibly none of Tolkien's inventions contain sufficient attested vocabulary to qualify as a language (though a case might be made for Quenya and/or Sindarin). If you mean some set of words that Tolkien named (e.g., even the Black Speech, with only a couple dozen attested words), then there are many, many languages.

Ben's inventions include: bifocals, lightning rod, Glass Armonica, library chair, swim fins, the long reach device, Franklin Stove, catheter, and Daylight Savings Time. Swim Fins: An avid swimmer, Franklin developed early swim fins. As a boy, he had fashioned two wooden palettes, oval in shape and with a hole through which to put one's thumb. With one on each hand, he paddled through water, observing that they helped him to swim faster.

Our owner is trained in engineering and soil restoration. He knows soils' properties very well. He knew what this material would do under tires. When someone got stuck in our front lawn (that's another story), he had his chance to try the material out. He put short lengths of it under their tires, and VOILA! out they drove! I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. The person was up to the axles in mud, and three strong men had tried to push her out.

Eno is perhaps most known with regard to tape loops for introducing Robert Fripp to a system of looping two reel-to-reel decks which became known as Frippertronics. It's not clear if Eno devised this particular system or found it after someone else did. Eno almost certainly wasn't the first to explore the technique and probably picked it up from Steve Reich or Terry Riley. I've heard that Pauline Oliveras was using a system like this in the 60's.

No. On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz received a patent for a crude gas-fueled car. In 1893, Charles and Frank Duryea, of Springfield, Massachusetts, built the first gas-operated vehicle in the U.S.

When I was a graduate student in physics I wrote and performed Cosmic Cabaret: the Proto Show at the Climate Theater, a small experimental theater in SF in 1996. It was a one-woman musical multimedia show on cosmology and physics in which I was trying to explore highly technical physics topics with musical theater to a non-scientific audience. It was very challenging to do this without the show turning into a lecture or lesson because I had to do so much informing to get to the good stuff.

Those rumors abound because during the time around his birth, there were only a few shapes of confetti in existence. Circles, Stars, Hearts, and Squares. When Jimmy saw this he knew that the World would be a better - more fun place if there were shapes of all kinds. The last time Jimmy checked, there had never been an instance where giving or using Confetti put a frown on someones face.

L33t is the practice of replacing letters with numbers and other typographic characters, plus a handful of other substitutions. It predates MegaTokyo, and the exact origin is not known. See the MTFN's lexicon page for a list of letters, and the links page for more l33t resources. The Reader's Guide notes for the individual strips give translations when needed.

Fuller did not invent the geodesic dome. It was invented by Walter Bauersfeld of the Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany in 1922, and the first use of it was as a planetarium on the roof of Zeiss that year. However, Fuller was awarded several patents for the dome. Among them are US patent #2682235 (1954), US patent #288171 (1959), US patent #2905113 (1959), US patent #2914074 (1959), etc.

Hello everyone! I am finally able to connect to the BB after almost three days of our server being totally screwed up! Boy did I ever miss this BB! This is my sit back and relax time when not quilting and I needed it!!!! DS (age 17) hit ice Thursday morning and flipped his '89 Dodge pickup. Thank God he always buckles up and makes sure passengers do too! The officer said we would have lost at least one of the kids otherwise.

Some have argued that ancient man felt himself so alone and vulnerable that he invented God to be his protector.

No, He did propose a machine for mechanical decapitation but if the French Guillotine can claim to have any parents, they have to be Doctor Antoine Louis who drew up the blueprints and Tobias Smith who put the first modern guillotine together. Nobody can claim to have invented mechanical decapitation as it seems to have existed since the dark ages.The important point is, the French did not invent the guillotine, they merely perfected it.

No. Robert Moog, another genius inventor and a cousin of Bill Moog, invented the synthesizer. By doing a search on â??Moog and synthesizersâ??, itâ??s possible to find several websites devoted to this topic and to locate parts for the synthesizers.

Although Gram is often credited for inventing Country-Rock, Gram was simply the first Country musician to "act" like a Rock star (i.e. Flashy Nudie suites, excessive drink and drugs, etc.) and was often found in the company of the Rolling Stones. Gram was the inspiration of the Country-Rock movement which involved such bands as The Eagles, Pure Prairie League, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage and The Desert Rose Band to name a few.

The Sourdough baking process has existed for thousands of years, but Boudin Bakery was the first to combine the Sourdough process with French baking techniques to create the first Sourdough French bread in 1849.

The Geneva Initative is a serious document ? a detailed text written in the legal style of a Peace Treaty with very precise maps, that proposes agreed solutions to all issues of the Israeli ? Palestinian conflict.

Enforcement proceedings must be initiated by a code inspector. It is the code inspector's duty to investigate a complaint and institute proceedings as necessary where a violation is found to exist.

The CEB has the power by law to levy fines for a first violation of up to $250 per day for every day that the violation continues beyond the compliance date set in the Order, or for a repeat violation fines of up to $500 per day for every day that the violation continues from the date of the Notice of Violation and Request for Hearing.

George Eastman did not invent photography, but he is heralded as the father of popular photography. With Mr. Eastman's inventions of flexible roll film and the Kodak camera of 1888 and $1 Brownie camera of 1900, photography became available to the amateur masses.

No. The first cordless power tool was unveiled by Black & Decker in 1961. In the mid-1960s, Martin Marietta Corporation contracted with Black & Decker to design tools for NASA. The tool company developed a zero-impact wrench for the Gemini project that spun bolts in zero gravity without spinning the astronaut. Black & Decker also designed a cordless rotary hammer drill for the Apollo moon program.

Coda was funded in 2005 -2006 by Archstone Foundation to develop and test a program to educate assisted living residents, their family members, and assisted living facility staff about end-of-life care options and advance care planning. The Go Wish game was developed within this project, to fill a need for a way to stimulate discussion that would focus in a positive way on values and wishes about end-of-life care.

No, light bulbs already existed, but the systems were extremely inefficient, expensive, and aesthetically unpleasing. Thomas Edison perfected the incandescent light bulb and was instrumental in developing the electrical distribution system and in electrical marketing.

Runes are actually any alphabet which is angular in shape and Tolkien did not invent them. Runes are suitable for scratching roughly into a hard surface, especially wood. The Germanic runes were invented by Germanic-speaking people in about 100 AD (as a phonetic alphabet) and were used by them for simple inscriptions.

Scientists have been discussing fractals as capacitors now for nearly two decades. Liu’s 1985 paper (Phys Rev.Let.,55,529) clearly shows a fractal capacitor built from a Cantor set. It sets the date of relevant prior art. Nathan Cohen first looked at fractal capacitors in 1988 and included commonly known structures such as Koch islands. He found that near/at DC, and only near/at DC, a fractal structure can approximate a capacitor and thus there can be bona fide fractal capacitors.

From John Scialli <johnscialli@delphi.com>: I asked Frank this during a radio appearance on Allan Handelman's East Coast Live Show (Allan's 27th interview of Frank over the years!) originating on WRFX, Charlotte, NC 11/1/92. FYI I'll type my question, the form of which cracked Frankie up, since it was asked with a potentially shit-eating grin: