The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

The earliest inscriptions in the Aramaic language use the Phoenician alphabet.

The Bridgewater Foundry, pictured in 1839-one of the earliest factories to use an almost modern layout, work flow and material handling system.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

This is the earliest use of Germania.

* Lake, Fred & Wright, Hal ( 1974 ) A Bibliography of Archery: an indexed catalogue of 5, 000 articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war, and recreation, from the earliest times to the present day.

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

" Paddy on the Railway " is attested as a chanty in the earliest known published work to use the word " chanty ," G. E.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

RODS is designed to draw collect data from many data sources and use them to perform signal detection, that is, to detect a possible bioterrorism event at the earliest possible moment.

The earliest bricks were dried brick, meaning they were formed from clay-bearing earth or mud, and dried ( usually in the sun ) until they were strong enough for use.

This example, from May 15, 1920, is the earliest known use of " Big Apple " to refer to any city.

The earliest known tool for use in computation was the abacus, and it was thought to have been invented in Babylon circa 2400 BC.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

The archaeological site of Xihoudu in Shanxi Province is the earliest recorded use of fire by Homo erectus, which is dated 1. 27 million years ago.

The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication.

The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

All but the very earliest 1541s can use either the Alps or Newtronics mechanism.

The earliest use of what would now be called perturbation theory was to deal with the otherwise unsolvable mathematical problems of celestial mechanics: Newton's solution for the orbit of the Moon, which moves noticeably differently from a simple Keplerian ellipse because of the competing gravitation of the Earth and the Sun.

Tylor also theorized about the origins of religious beliefs in human beings, proposing a theory of animism as the earliest stage, and noting that " religion " has many components, of which he believed the most important to be belief in supernatural beings ( as opposed to moral systems, cosmology, etc .).

Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy ( 1808 ), one of the earliest scientific works on atomic theory

The earliest and most direct kinds of observational evidence are the Hubble-type expansion seen in the redshifts of galaxies, the detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background, the relative abundances of light elements produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and today also the large scale distribution and apparent evolution of galaxies predicted to occur due to gravitational growth of structure in the standard theory.

One of the earliest justifications involved the theory of natural law.

Particularly influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents.

Diophantus is often called “ the father of algebra " because he contributed greatly to number theory, mathematical notation, and because Arithmetica contains the earliest known use of syncopated notation.

This theory holds that the epistle was written before the Council was convened, possibly making it the earliest of Paul's epistles.

One of Haeckel's earliest proponents was Carl Gegenbaur at the University of Jena ( 1865 – 1873 ), during which both men were absorbing the impact of Darwin's theory.

Another recent theory holds that the earliest stories that cast the Grail in a Christian light were meant to promote the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Holy Communion.

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

The earliest recorded trace of a recapitulation theory is from the Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik I ( 664 – 610 BCE ), who used it as an hypothesis on the origin of language.

One of the earliest of these was Al-Kindi ( c. 801 – 73 ) who wrote on the merits of Aristotelian and Euclidean ideas of optics, favouring the emission theory since it could better quantify optical phenomenon.

One of the oldest and most commonly used formulations is the " transformation theory " proposed by the late Cambridge theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, which unifies and generalizes the two earliest formulations of quantum mechanics-matrix mechanics ( invented by Werner Heisenberg ) and wave mechanics ( invented by Erwin Schrödinger ).

The earliest string model, the bosonic string, incorporated only bosons, although this view developed to the superstring theory, which posits that a connection ( a " supersymmetry ") exists between bosons and fermions.

The earliest comprehensive theory of light was advanced by Christiaan Huygens, who proposed a wave theory of light, and in particular demonstrated how waves might interfere to form a wavefront, propagating in a straight line.

According to Freud's theory, in the earliest stage of a child's psychosexual development, the oral stage, the mother's breast became the formative source of all later erotic sensation.

This theory is supported by a study into the SLC24A5 gene which found that the allelle associated with light skin in Europe may have originated as recently as 6, 000 – 10, 000 years ago which is in line with the earliest evidence of farming.

Later, Auguste Comte employed the concept in his theory of the evolution of religion, wherein he posited fetishism as the earliest ( most primitive ) stage, followed by polytheism and monotheism.

One problem is that there is currently no theoretical model that explains the earliest moments of the universe's existence ( during the Planck time ) because of a lack of a testable theory of quantum gravity.

His two earliest mathematical papers were on geometrical subjects, but the third concerned the theory of numbers.

However, this theory fails to account for the existence — even in the earliest recorded examples of scatting — of free improvisation by the vocalist.

A widely accepted theory in classical studies is that the earliest temple structures were of wood and the great forms, or elements of architectural style, were codified and rather permanent by the time we see the Archaic emergent and established.

He also wrote on military theory and public affairs, and edited some of the earliest books to consider SF from a literary theory and criticism perspective.