Where did he come up with that stuff?

In 1607, Galileo Galilei constructs a thermoscope.

In 1806, Francis Beaufort introduced his system for classifying wind speeds.

He invented the modern face mask, the taxi squad and the draw play.

Adding edges to ice skates was invented by the Dutch in the 13th or 14th century.

It had developed a number of tools for investors and Governments aimed at helping trade promotion.

Karl Duncker created this experiment that is used in a whole variety of experiments in behavioral science.

In order to fasten rope, a large number of knots have been invented for countless uses.

In 1662, Sir Christopher Wren invented the mechanical, self emptying, tipping bucket rain gauge.

In 1662, Sir Christopher Wren invented the mechanical, self emptying, tipping bucket rain gauge.

Recently, Taleb coined the term antifragile to describe a system that benefits from inherent uncertainty, volatility, and disorder.

According to physicist John Baez, Graham invented the quantity now known as Graham's number in conversation with Gardner himself.

Technology, given to an individual or group that has created an important tool that enables free expression and expands access to information

TINs were first invented by Phil Mellor whilst studying Sociology at University of Edinburgh in 1947.

In his home of Namibia, John Kasaona is working on an innovative way to protect endangered animal species giving nearby villagers responsibility for caring for the animals. And it's working.

Banks have been holding our money for safekeeping since the fourteenth century, when the Florentines invented the practice.

Netizens are being innovative in by passing the blackout, by contacting Egyptians directly and amplifying their voices for the rest of the world to hear their cry.

With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

In 1860 an important improvement had been made by Dr. Antonio Pacinotti of Pisa who devised the first electric machine with a ring armature.

For example, Willard Scott created the figure now known internationally as Ronald McDonald to improve sales in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Back in the early 1980 s, financial engineers invented portfolio insurance, a fancy active hedging strategy for controlling downside risk.

He actually devised some of the same technologies used today for suturing blood vessels, and some of the blood vessel grafts we use today were actually designed by Alexis.

And so the Shah invents an Iranian history, or a return to Iranian history, that puts him in the center of a great tradition and produces coins showing himself with the Cyrus cylinder.

In practice, the state s reach often went beyond this conception (as, say, in the case of Bismarck s introduction of old age pensions in Germany in 1889).

Bell and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor devised the successful marketing notion of Society membership and the first major use of photographs to tell stories in magazines.

But if lotteries, subsidies, and other devices fail to control tax evasion, the Chinese have another method the death penalty.

During a deposition filed for the 1887 trial, Italian inventor Antonio Meucci also claimed to have created the first working model of a telephone in Italy in 1834.

In 1857, Foucault invented the polarizer which bears his name, and in the succeeding year devised a method of testing the mirror of a reflecting telescope to determine its shape.

In 1908, he created the Rolex brand under which to sell his watches, and during World War I, he left England for Switzerland due to wartime tax increases levied on luxury imports.

Harboring a grudge, one chemist rallied the Academy to block the committee s recommendation for the Russian Dmitry Mendeleyev, who created the periodic table.

The product logo was created by Erik Möller using a flower photograph taken by Florence Nibart Devouard, and was originally submitted to an international logo contest for a new Wikipedia logo held in mid 2003.

Even conservative, Fox News watching Americans have become aware, in a way that was not the case in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks, that America has created its own blowback.

The Pakistani media revisited a famous comment by Mohammad Iqbal, the poet philosopher who devised the idea of an independent Muslim state in Pakistan. The religion of the mullah, he said, is anarchy in the name of Allah.

Over the following century, economists like John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Irving Fisher, Knut Wicksell, and John Maynard Keynes devised a list of steps to take in order to avoid or cure a depression.

In contrast with the German design which could only have its wing sweepback angle adjusted on the ground, the Bell engineers devised a system of electric motors to adjust the sweep in flight.

In 1964, the Herman Miller (office equipment) company engaged Robert Propst, a prolific industrial designer, who came up with the concept of the Action Office which later evolved into the cubicle office furniture system.

The French may have invented the hyper mart the forerunner of the big box store but they never intended to let their growth go unchecked.

Thus, NATO, developed a burden sharing mechanism to assess members manning commitments for critical operational activities relative to their gross national income.

First, the doctrine of preemption, which was devised in response to the 2001 attacks, was inappropriately broadened to include Iraq and other so called rogue states that threatened to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Joseph Stiglitz in his book Freefall, and Robert Reich in his Aftershock, have told similar stories, while the economists Michael Kumhof and Romain Ranciere have devised a formal mathematical version of the possible link between income concentration and financial crisis.

iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling the pop up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

Americans do gooders like Nicholas Negroponte, with his 100 laptop, have identified the right problem Africa is way behind technologically and rapid leap frogging is possible.

Even conservative, Fox News watching Americans have become aware, in a way that was not the case in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks, that America has created its own blowback. The spin that worked so well back then that the attacks occurred because they hate our freedoms does not ring true anymore.