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James Bond Gadgets: Discover the Secret Technology of the World's Greatest Spy (DVD). Lionsgate. 2015. Modern Marvels: James Bond Gadgets (DVD). A&E Home Video. 2007. Gresh, Lois H.; Weinberg, Robert (2006). The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films. Wiley.
A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way. Usually, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers the initiation ...
a contraption; a machine, device or gadget; Contraption, a television game show formerly broadcast on the Disney Channel; Circus Contraption, a one-ring circus, vaudeville and dark cabaret troupe based in Seattle, Washington; Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions "The Contraption", an episode of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
The Enigma machine was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. [4] The German firm Scherbius & Ritter, co-founded by Scherbius, patented ideas for a cipher machine in 1918 and began marketing the finished product under the brand name Enigma in 1923, initially targeted at commercial markets. [5]
The etymology of the word is disputed. The word first appears as reference to an 18th-century tool in glassmaking that was developed as a spring pontil. [3] As stated in the glass dictionary published by the Corning Museum of Glass, a gadget is a "metal rod with a spring clip that grips the foot of a vessel and so avoids the use of a pontil".
A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets, hard floors, and other surfaces.
Gadget Hackwrench, a young female mouse from the TV series Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers; Gadgets, a series of machine-type monsters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game; Gary "Gadget" Flowers, a character in the This Is England series of films; Inspector Gadget, the titular character of the animated series of the same name.
Derek J. de Solla Price (1922–1983) with a model of the Antikythera mechanism. Captain Dimitrios Kontos (Δημήτριος Κοντός) and a crew of sponge divers from Symi island discovered the Antikythera wreck in early 1900, and recovered artefacts during the first expedition with the Hellenic Royal Navy, in 1900–01. [32]