Rather, "it was a hurtling 90 minutes of spectacular stagecraft, invention, ingenuity and imagination," Mr. Walton said.
Although it is optional, you could opt to hire a graphic designer to put together a spectacular presentation for your invention.
It also recalls times when miracles of human invention were still spectacular, like the Brooklyn Bridge, rather than spectral, like the Internet.
Over the next year Watson joined Bell in demonstrating the powers of the new invention in several spectacular and widely reported exhibitions.
The book and the movie, of course, tell the story of Georges Méliès, the pioneer of cinematic magic by way of special effects and spectacular stagecraft of his own invention, and Scorsese tells Sotinel the remarkable story of his exposure to Méliès's work: In 1956, I was thirteen.
This may well be so, but there is a niggling feeling that, like many of Heatherwick's inventions, it is a spectacular solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.
Paul had published an early version of his invention and presented his device and technique, and their spectacular results, at several scientific conferences.
These inventions give us great power -- both as consumers and as entrepreneurs -- but the real impact may not be just from the birth of these amazing products, but from innovation that allows us to apply them in more spectacular ways.
