Traditional encaustic tile originated inEurope, unlike many other types of tile which have their roots in Asia. At first, to simulate the look of Roman mosaics, European craftsmen would etch patterns into stones with knives and fill in the holes with clay. When were encaustic tiles invented? E...
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Founder of Transkaryotic Therapies (now part of Shire), which invented gene-activated erythropoi- etin, a competitor to Amgen's erythropoietin. Dale Stringfellow. Former CEO and president of Berlex Biosciences, a research, development and manufactur- ing organization. Founder Myriad Genetics, Cog...
He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards, including "Mosaic", "Bolivia", "Holy Land", "Mode for Joe" and "Fantasy in D". Age: Dec. at 79 (...
Tessellation is another word for tiling. A tessellation is created when you fit individual tiles together to fill a flat space like a floor, wall or ceiling without gaps or overlaps. Although we do not know when tiles were first invented, the Tile Associ
It was only in the late ‘50s that the technology was invented that made it possible to shoot sync sound without the camera and the tape recorder being connected by a cable. This technological development opened up the world as a subject for documentary filmmaking. ...
"It's the luck of the draw, where everyone who won the draw seems to feel like they deserved it for being smarter," Vitalik Buterin, the Russian-Canadian programmer who invented the smart-contract blockchain Ethereum, told the Financial Times recently. ...
Who invented the internet?The broad consensus regarding the creation of the internet is that it began with groundbreaking work by several scientists throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Paul Baran proposed a telecommunications system with redundant links while working for the Rand Corpo...
Aristotle also invented the field of logic (“analytics”), pioneered zoology – both observational and theoretical – and systematically defined many otheracademic disciplines. He divided the sciences into three categories: productive (those offering products, such as engineering, architecture and rhetoric...
helped him to obtain the desired effect. Brunelleschi's invention of 'linear perspective' did not interest him overmuch. He threw it overboard when he found that it hampered him in his work. After all, this scientific perspective had been invented to help painters to create the illusion of ...