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.
A video about Franklinâs top 5 inventions including the bifocal. Did Others Invent Bifocals Before Franklin? The idea of a split-lens had been suggested by Zahn in 1683 and, by Hertel in 1716. This was well before Franklin was thought to have invented them in the mid to late 1770s. However, there is no indication that the Zahn and Hertel lenses served the same purpose as the modern Bifocal.