In 1967, a secret research group in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, created Beta 21, the first prototype of a quartz watch.
He designed in 1928, and manufactured in 1933, the first prototype of his three-wheeled omnidirectional vehicle, the Dymaxion car.
Mr. Hetrick was a Navy Seal squadron commander in the late 1990s, when he created the first prototype of TRX out of parachute webbing and a carabiner ring.
He developed the first prototype of his Pavegen system from a flat in Brixton "with only £50 in my back pocket".
In 2009, Mr. Viot chose Belles Montres, the Paris watch salon, to unveil the first prototype of his "Chronomètre J-B Viot à Paris".
The first prototype of SGI's computer workstation was given free of charge in 1984 to George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars series of movies.
The current age of virtual reality began in 2010, when American teenager Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of a VR headset that would evolve into the Oculus Rift.
"After a while," Varni went on, "he called and said, 'I've done something interesting with that Port-a-Punch you lent me.' I went to his office and he showed me the first prototype of the Votomatic".
The first prototype of the double-decker coach is not due until the end of the summer, however some commuters who would rather stand than occupy a middle seat, are eagerly anticipating the change.
He later moved to America where, with the financial assistance of the Department of Energy, he produced the first prototype of a turbine that could extract power from free-flowing currents "without building any dam".
KARSAN, the Turkish company whose taxi is one of three finalists in New York's Taxi of Tomorrow competition, showed off the first prototype of its body at a press event in Manhattan on Wednesday.
