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In the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, a bolas is featured as a weapon made by the Q Branch. In the How To Train Your Dragon film franchise, bolas are semi-frequently used as a dragon hunting weapon, to bind the wings and prevent flight. In Escape from L.A., bolas are used to knock Snake Plissken off the top of a vehicle during the “parade”.
In 19th-century France, boules were typically made of a very hard wood, boxwood root. In the mid-19th century, techniques were developed for the mass production of iron nails. Following this technological improvement, boxwood balls studded with nails (boules cloutées) were introduced in an effort to improve the durability of the balls.
2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [544] [545] [546] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded
Balls made from hard-wearing materials are used in engineering applications to provide very low friction bearings, known as ball bearings. Black-powder weapons use stone and metal balls as projectiles. Although many types of balls are today made from rubber, this form was unknown outside the Americas until after the voyages of Columbus.
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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
1928 – International Bureau of Standardization of Man Made Fibers founded. [24] 1939 – US passes Wool Products Labeling Act, requiring truthful labeling of wool products according to origin. [25] 1940 – Spectrophotometer invented, with impact on commercial textile dye processes. 1942 – First patent for fabric singeing awarded in US. [26]
Russian inventions (5 C, 230 P, 1 F) S. Serbian inventions (2 C, 10 P) ... Pages in category "European inventions" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of ...