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21Richard Roberts (engineer) — Infobox Person name = Richard Roberts image size = 150px caption = Richard Roberts birth name = birth date = 22 April 1789 birth place = Llanymynech death date = 11 March 1864 death place = death cause = resting place = resting place coordinates …
22Robert Ammann — (October 1, 1946 ndash; May, 1994) was an amateur mathematician who made several significant and groundbreaking contributions to the theory of quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings.Ammann attended Brandeis University, but generally did not go to… …
23Bedlington Ironworks — Bedlington Ironworks, in Blyth Dene, Northumberland, England, operated between 1736 and 1867. It is most remembered as the place where wrought iron rails were invented by John Birkinshaw in 1820, which triggered the railway age, with their first… …
24Pastrone, Giovanni — (1883 1959) Producer and director. Long known as merely the producer and director of Cabiria (1914), Pastrone has continued to grow in stature as more recent research has revealed his major role in, and contribution to, the Italian film… …
25Pastrone, Giovanni — (1883 1959) Producer and director. Long known as merely the producer and director of Cabiria (1914), Pastrone has continued to grow in stature as more recent research has revealed his major role in, and contribution to, the Italian film… …
26Dresser Industries — was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources. In 1998, Dresser merged with its main rival… …
27Eugène Freyssinet — Infobox Engineer image size = caption = name = Eugène Freyssinet nationality = French birth date =birth date|df=yes|1879|7|13 birth place = Objat, Corrèze, France death date =Death date and age|df=yes|1962|6|8|1879|7|13 death place = education =… …
28Symington — This is a medieval Scottish locational surname, with a considerable history. Recorded as Symington, Simenton, Semington, Simmington and others, there are two possible places of origin. The first is the parish of Symington in the Kyle district of… …
29technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
30tennis — /ten is/, n. a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half. Cf. lawn tennis. See illus. under racket2.… …
