My Romance. Maggie Smith plays a heart-on-sleeve novelist in the deeply felt My House in Umbria; Rachael Stirling is smashing (natchâsheâs Diana Riggsâs daughter) in Tipping the Velvet. After the bomb: Emmy Clarke, left, and Dame Maggie Smith in Umbria. Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith) is an aging romance novelist who has rewritten her own life.
Since the mid-1970s, Kodak has invented several solid-state image sensors that converted light to digital pictures for professional and home consumer use. In 1986, Kodak scientists invented the world's first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5x7-inch digital photo-quality print. In 1987, Kodak released seven products for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still video images.
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).