Stand by for further advances, starting in Gordon Brown's budget on March 9th.William Beveridge, the post-war inventor of Britain's welfare state, wanted a system where everyone paid insurance contributions and everyone got benefits: security, in Winston Churchill's words, "from the cradle to the grave".
Around the time of World War I, inventor Nikola Tesla lived in the earlier Waldorf-Astoria.
"In the High-Tech Patent Wars, an Inventor's Lament" (Bits blog, Oct. 15) conflates perceived concerns about our patent system and hand-wringing about some high-profile lawsuits to conclude that innovation is threatened.
Sikh Americans helped build the railroads out west, Sikh Americans served with the US through the World Wars; the inventor of fiber-optics is a Sikh American, as is our nation's largest peach farmer.
Muybridge, who is best known for his photographic portrayal of animal and human subjects in motion, was also a successful documentary artist, war correspondent and inventor.
One can't help feeling that since playing an ambidextrous mastermind who is credited as a sculptor, artist, anatomist, inventor, war engineer and polymath, the neurological pathways of Riley's own brain may have been affected.
As millions of Europe's young men were busy machine-gunning each other to death in World War I, the inventor of the weapon died, a very rich man and a knight of the realm.
Dražen, a Boznian war refugee and inventor known for the immersive quality he brings to his musical compositions and sound design, wanted to bring cinematic quality sound to VR, and developed Mach1 to, ideally, do just that.
To explore inventive creativity more deeply and complexly, I focus on two leading inventor-entrepreneurs, Elmer Sperry from the period 1870 to 1920, when independent inventor-entrepreneurs flourished, and Jay Forrester, from the decades after World War II, when inventor-entrepreneurs in universities flourished.
George V was an effective war-leader and inventor of 'the House of Windsor'.
During the Napoleonic Wars the American inventor Robert Fulton experimented with a naval mine and called it a torpedo, apparently deriving its name from a fish that emits an electric discharge that incapacitates its enemies.
