1933 development of stereophonic recording and reproduction. The Soundfield range of microphones are now considered the ultimate microphones for recording both stereophonic and multichannel surround formats. Gerzon later plays a large role in the invention of Ambisonics, which is a series of recording and replay techniques using multichannel mixing technology that can be used live or in the studio. Balti cuisine becomes nationally renowned, after initial growth in the city during the late 1980s. Today Balti restaurants are extremely popular throughout Britain and abroad. Sir John Robert Vane, winner of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 for his work on aspirin, is educated at King Edward's School and studies Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. 1991: Derek McMinn begins the first successful modern metal-on-metal hip resurfacing operations and the instrumentation and surgical technique to implant it. 21st century The University of Birmingham has become one of the significant UK research centres for nanotechnology. As of 2013, Aston University was also carrying out research, including a micro-robotic drill for use in surgery, and the use of fibre optics instead of electric sensors in aircraft fuel tanks. See also Industrial Revolution Scientific revolution Chemical revolution Jewellery Quarter Gun Quarter Birmingham pen trade Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution History of Birmingham History of trade and industry in Birmingham Notes References Edwardian Inventions;, Rodney Dale & Joan Gray, Star Books, 1979, Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1973, Workshop Of The World, Ray Shill, Sutton Publishing LTD, 2006, Birmingham's Industrial Heritage 1900–2000, Ray Shill, Sutton Publishing LTD, Birmingham Inventors And Inventions, Richard B. Prosser, H.M. Patent Office (originally 1881) later published by S.R. Publishers 1970, Watch & Clockmakers Of The British Isles, Birmingham, A Pictorial History Of Boxing'', Sam Andre and Nat Fleischer, Hamlyn, 1988, External links Inventions from Aston University Innovators and inventors from the University of Birmingham Economy of Birmingham, West Midlands Birmingham, Science And Invention Birmingham History of Birmingham, West Midlands Industry in Birmingham, West Midlands English inventions Lists of inventions or discoveries