These houses, now mostly occupied by lawyers, are the work of Nicholas Barbon, who pioneered terraced housing when he wasn't sitting in parliament or helping to invent buildings insurance.
Why? Here's one theory: "I suppose it is impossible to form the habit of inventing people, building them up, tearing them down, and moving them around like paper dolls, without doing somewhat the same thing with live ones".
A few dozen paces up the path, Gilbert admits how much, during the memoir period, she'd missed inventing characters, building worlds in her mind -- and yet how much those memoirs made this novel possible.
A German scientist has barred researchers in "immigration-friendly" countries from using Treefinder, a software program he invented for building phylogenetic or evolutionary trees.
He invented muscle-building machines, opened his own gym in New York City and in 1899 started a popular magazine, "Physical Culture".
Any quibbling aside, though, the film is a captivating look at recent history that already feels ancient, when high technology involved inventing and building things rather than writing code and selling clicks.
That would be the myriad ways in which human beings have been at work for millennia, and especially over the past century or two, inventing, creating, building and adapting to cope with climate and the broad forces of nature.
I don't know what it will take to wake up everybody to the fact that our standard of living is based on productivity, which is based on math and science and students graduating and inventing and building state of the art things that have never been seen before.
Dayton is the hometown of the Wright brothers, aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane.
A lot of youngsters return to the hands-on craftsmen approach to skip the contractor and constructor steps through inventing and building their own briefs, mostly as light, temporary structures to pass the according laws.
