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George Charles Devol Jr. (February 20, 1912 – August 11, 2011) was an American inventor, best known for creating Unimate, the first industrial robot. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The National Inventors Hall of Fame says, "Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represents the foundation of the modern robotics industry."
William "Canada Bill" Jones (c. 1837 – 1877) was an English-born confidence artist, riverboat gambler and card sharp in Canada and the United States. He has been described by historians, news reporters and others who have written about his life since the late 19th century with such superlatives as "the greatest of confidence men" [1] and "without doubt the greatest three-card-monte sharp ...
Devol Brett (1923–2010), United States Army Air Forces general who piloted American aircraft during crises and wars from 1948 (the Berlin Crisis) through the Vietnam War (1960s) Frank Denny De Vol (1911–1999), sometimes known simply as DeVol, was an American arranger, composer and actor
Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s.
George E. Smith: 1930 Charge-coupled device [265] 2006 George Henry Corliss: 1817 Improvements to steam engine [266] 2006 George Hulett: 1846 Loading and unloading machine [267] 2006 George Pullman: 1831 Pullman car [268] 2006 Gideon Sundback: 1880 Zipper [269] 2006 Gottlieb Daimler: 1834 Design of automobile and motorcycle engines [270] 2006 ...
Mark Fallon persuades professional gambler "Kansas John" Polly to teach him the trade. As they board a riverboat bound for New Orleans, Kansas John advises him to be wary of F. Montague Caldwell, an unscrupulous riverboat gambler. Mark makes the acquaintance of two fellow passengers, attractive Angelique Dureau and her brother Laurent.
Jazza then wanted to expand the art community on Youtube and in 2022 decided to make [Insert Art] and hire a group of artists to give advice on how to keep doing art, how to make your art better, and to do fun community art challenges. He describes his art style as cartoon-like, but has also tried to extend to comic books.
The Big Art Project (also known as Big Art) is a UK-wide public art initiative funded by the Channel 4 and Arts Council England. The four-part TV series was made by Mike Christie and Mike Smith’s company Carbon Media and first broadcast on Sunday 10 May 2009 on Channel 4.