Invented in a pub in the 1970s, toe wrestling plays out very much like a traditional arm-wrestling match.
The substance he abused: Bakelite, a phenolic resin invented in 1909 and often used as an electrical insulator.
When the system was first invented in the 19th century it worked well enough.
Since holography was invented in 1948, there have been two major developments in the field.
Niemtzow has trained hundreds of military doctors in battlefield acupuncture, a method that he invented in 2001.
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Invented in 1839 by William Grove, fuel cells promise to convert chemicals into electricity cheaply and efficiently.
The only catch is that, although invented in Europe, the web was exploited far more quickly in America.
Bubble Wrap, an unnatural resource of New Jersey, was invented in 1957 by Fielding and engineer Marc Chavannes.
Three Olympic sports originated in the United States: basketball, volleyball, and the triathlon, which was invented in 1974.
According to ski lore, the airbags were first invented in the 1970s by a German forester who noticed a peculiar phenomenon.
The market also offers mento music, the mostly acoustic precursor to reggae that was practically invented in Port Antonio.
It was the world's first publicly available microcomputer and ran on a microprocessor that Intel had invented in 1971.
To see the system at work, look at auction-rate securities, a sort of long-term debt invented in the 1980s.
More recently, other historians have suggested the telescope was first invented in Italy.
Zetia, known generically as ezetimibe, was invented in Schering's labs (see: "Behind Zetia's Curtain") and is co-marketed with Merck.
The fax machine was invented in 1843, and both Xerox and Bell Labs had ongoing projects to fine-tune the concept.
The principle has a name which sounds as though it was invented in pre-feudal times - which it probably was.
This business model was invented in France by Jean-Claude Decaux in 1964 in response to a law limiting poster sites.
It was invented in Germany in the 1830s and has never been a "natural" instrument it has always had valves.
Bubble memory, a way of storing 0s and 1s by manipulating energy levels, had been invented in the labs in 1966.
Invented in the mid-1990s by a blind mathematician named James Miekka, the Hindenburg Omen is an indicator of a market crash.
Just because the Internet was invented in the U.S. doesn't mean that dominant U.S. companies will naturally be successful in Asia.
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Copper sulphate, for instance, known as Bordeaux mixture, was invented in the 19th century for vineyards, and widely used until 1930.
The harmonica was invented in Europe a century or so before it became one of the most definitive colors of American music.
The kidney cells were forced to take up bits of DNA using a technique invented in 1973 that used a calcium solution.
Speed limits have gone from 55 miles per hour, when the test was invented in 1975, to as high as 75 mph.
Only one in 5, 000 of the compounds invented in drug company labs is thought to make it into patient testing at all.
The telegraph was invented in the 1840s, but during the pivotal 1860 campaign, large parts of the country still were not wired.
Or the automobile, invented in Europe before Henry Ford made it mass-market.
Invented in 1977, the technique allows close study of the body's anatomy.
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