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Hypocaust. A hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes. This air can warm the upper floors as well. [1] The word derives from the Ancient Greek hypo meaning "under ...
From a medieval French illustration. Gaius Sergius Orata (fl. c. 95 BC) was an Ancient Roman who was a successful merchant, inventor and hydraulic engineer. He is credited with inventing the cultivation of oysters and refinement to the hypocaust method of heating a building to provide, in addition, heated water for bathing.
Contents. Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [ 1 ] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford [ 2 ] and a professor emeritus at the ...
Box office. $4.8 million [1] Flash of Genius is a 2008 American biographical drama film directed by Marc Abraham. Philip Railsback wrote the screenplay based on a 1993 New Yorker article by John Seabrook. [2] The story focuses on Robert Kearns (played by Greg Kinnear) and his legal battle against the Ford Motor Company after they developed an ...
The superhero genre was the most dominant in American box office receipts. The list of top-grossing films was dominated by Disney, with 2019 having the most films in the top 50. The 2019 superhero film Avengers: Endgame was the most successful movie of all-time at the box office.
Louis Le Prince. For the composer, see Louis Le Prince (composer). Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene. He was possibly the first person to shoot a moving ...
Time Changer is a 2002 independent Christian science fiction seriocomic film written and directed by Rich Christiano, released by Five & Two Pictures.The screenplay concerns Dr. Norris Anderson (Gavin MacLeod), who uses his late father's time machine to send his colleague, Bible professor Russell Carlisle (D. David Morin), from 1890 into the early 21st century.
Les Diaboliques was a worldwide critical and box office success. (Hitchcock later directed Vertigo , which was based on another Boileau-Narcejac novel.) Krug obrechyonnykh [ ru ] (The Circle of the Doomed), (U.S.S.R., 1991), directed by Yuri Belenky, and starring Igor Bochkin, Anna Kamenkova , and Vsevolod Larionov [ 7 ]