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.
Introduction. 1  1232: The Chinese who invented gunpowder (black powder) first used it in a weapon-gunpowder filled tubes aka rockets. 2  1364: First recorded use of a firearm-shooter lit wicks by hand that ingnited gunpowder that was loaded into the gun barrel.3  1400s: Matchlock guns-first mechanically firing of guns. 1400s: Matchlock guns-first mechanically firing of guns. 2  Wicks were now attached to a clamp that sprang into gunpowder that was placed in a flash pan. 3  1509: Wheel lock guns-wicks were replaced the wheel lock that generated a spark for igniting the gunpowder.