The Great Beauty benefited from a Sleeper award from the British Film Institute's Distribution Fund, a relatively recent innovation devised to help specialised titles reach a wider audience throughout the regions, and only bestowed after the opening weekend has already demonstrated proven appetite for a film.
King Camp Gillette of America, possessor of the greatest name in the history of innovation, devised in the 1890s the world's first razor fitted with disposable blades mounted in safety housing.
The book centers on the power of an unaccountable public agency, cunning legal and political maneuvers and brilliant engineering innovations devised to address extraordinary structural challenges.
The entire world was booming, partly on the back of triple-A investment innovations devised by a master race of financial Jedi.
Since the conclusion of the BSC, many of the practice innovations devised and tested by teams have been integrated into statewide practice not only in the originating state but in some instances in neighboring states.
This is the battery technology found in hybrid cars, laptop computers and many other devices, and is just one of the many innovations devised by Mr Ovshinsky, a self-taught inventor who pioneered the field of amorphous materials in the 1950s.
My first, Modernism's Nonhuman Worlds: Animal Metaphor and the Entanglements of Being, explores the linguistic innovations devised to reimagine the human/animal divide in the aftermath of the "Darwinian trauma" of 1859, with an emphasis on new uses of metaphor in the period.
Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode show that many innovations devised in the fight against animal diseases, ranging from border control and food inspection to drug regulations and the creation of federal research labs, provided the foundation for modern food safety programs and remain at the heart of U.S. public health policy.
Note that the distinction between innovations devised to modify a product versus those that enable maintaining the product is a gradual one.
Lange, in his history of the Mint, notes that though Peale ended his career by being fired amid accusations of impropriety, upon his return from Europe, "he was the bearer of many innovations devised in the mints of Europe and now made available to the United States Mint at Philadelphia".
A master of battlefield innovation, Prabhakaran devised a form of execution for collaborators with the enemy: the victim was tied to a lamppost and blown to pieces with Cordex explosive fuse wire.
