Recent posts about Houston, Mississippi on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Houston is mentioned 267 times on our forum: Latest news from Houston, MS collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: American (13.1%), English (9.6%), Irish (2.9%), African (1.4%), Scotch-Irish (1.2%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 7.59 square miles.
Resomation was invented by  biochemist Sandy Sullivan, who is assisting Anderson-McQueen in the start up. Sullivan's Resomation, Ltd. has been developing the system since 2007, and it is distributed by Matthews Cremation of Orlando.
Doctor using a sphygmomanometer to measure a patientâs blood pressure.Â© AVAVA/Shutterstock.com. The first clinically applicable sphygmomanometer was invented in 1881 by Austrian physician Karl Samuel Ritter von Basch. Von Basch introduced the aneroid manometer, which uses a round dial that provides a pressure reading. The pressure is indicated by a needle, which is deflected by air from an inflation device (e.g., a diaphragm or Bourdon tube).