They had 400-500 bedrooms; it had 79.Americans invented the grand hotel.
Mr. Maiden, 43, invented the product after 15 years as a solar power researcher and consultant.
His daughter Giselle, 19, invented the Oreo dessert empanada ($2.50), which contains crushed cookies, marshmallow fluff and Hershey's syrup.
(And aren't you glad that someone – perhaps the crew of "30something" — invented the reductive word dramedy? We sure are).
But in fact, Peter Cooper (1791-1883) invented a Jell-O forerunner that helped lead to the dessert of a thousand jiggles.
Léger (1767 1829) invented a papermaking machine, and the third son, called Didot le jeune, followed Henri as a typemaker.
Dallas, which ran throughout the 80s, invented the season cliffhanger, which normally involved someone's life hanging by a thread.
This homestead of oddities and wonderments is what Mr. Stillman, 54, invented after winding down his first career as a commercially successful sculptor.
His son, William Wellington Greener (1834 1921), invented a new type of shotgun mechanism and wrote several books, including The Gun and Its Development (1881).
Consider the machine that a television engineer named Charles Douglass, who died this year at the age of 93, invented in the 1950's.
Thierry Moulène, a young engineer with experience at Pininfarina's concept car subsidiary D3, invented this microcar and hopes to see it on the road in 2009 in Paris and London.
