The device was based on an invention of French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse Pénaud.
Historical figures, including Heinrich Himmler and Adam Czerniakow, the leader of the Warsaw ghetto, wander in and out, and the portrait of Rumkowski himself is based on a mix of fact, rumor and sheer invention.
The series has done a wonderful job of giving the public an idea of what architecture could be, with a number of memorable provocations and inventions, but it is based on a paradoxical premise.
TRIZ is based on a hypothesis that patterns or analogical concepts leading to exceptionally innovative solutions to technical problems can be extracted through analysis of past inventions.
A patent's initial cost is based on the invention in which the patent belongs to and its comparison to prior inventions of similar nature.
Patti Smith's "Birdland" on her album Horses (1975) is based on Reich's life and Hawkwind's song "Orgone Accumulator" (1973) is based on his invention, as is Love Camp 7's "Orgone Box" (1997).
She's taken the black servant in Manet's "Olympia" — exhibited the same year black American slaves were "emancipated" — and plunked her down from the art-historical skies into Brooklyn, where she finally gets to show her regal head and body as an alternative to Manet's invention, which was based on a working girl living in the demimonde.
Turning terabytes of genomic knowledge into medical benefit is a lot harder than discovering and mass producing antibiotics.The pessimists' second line of argument is based on how much invention is going on.
Stevanne Auerbach, the founder and former director of the San Francisco International Toy Museum, who has organized "toy gun exchanges," said she did not mind boys mimicking guns, if the play is based on their own invention — see finger, stick, cheese — rather than on the provision of actual physical (or virtual) toy guns.
The invention of the time clock, no doubt, was based on a lack of trust.
For the uninitiated, the term steampunk was coined in the 1980s and is based on imagining inventions the Victorians might have created for the modern world.
