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Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...
The remote, called Lazy Bones, [15] was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the Flash-Matic , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley . It worked by shining a beam of light onto one of four photoelectric cells , [ 17 ] but the cell did not distinguish between light from the remote and light from other ...
In 1950 Zenith came up with a remote control called the "Lazy Bones" which was connected with wires to the TV set. The next development was the "Flashmatic" (1955), designed by Eugene Polley, a wireless remote control that used a light beam to signal the TV (with a photosensitive pickup device) to change stations. One problem was that during ...
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Albion is a six-issue comic book limited series plotted by Alan Moore, written by his daughter Leah Moore and her husband John Reppion, with covers by Dave Gibbons and art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman.
He invented a well-known mathematical artefact, the ingenious numbering rods more quaintly known as "Napier's bones", [9] that offered mechanical means for facilitating computation. In addition, Napier recognized the potential of the recent developments in mathematics, particularly those of prosthaphaeresis , decimal fractions, and symbolic ...
What3words divides the world into a grid of 57 trillion 3-by-3-metre (10 ft × 10 ft) squares, each of which has a three-word address. The company says they do their best to remove homophones and spelling variations; [25] however, at least 32 pairs of English near-homophones still remain.