In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.

In 1642, while still a teenager, Blaise Pascal started some pioneering work on calculating machines and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.

It was a middle-class movement which accepted the existing economic and social order ; the effort to legislate morality assumed that individual redemption was all that was needed to carry the colony forward from a pioneering society to a more mature one.

De inventione dialectica documents this pioneering educational effort.

It was a middle-class movement which accepted the existing economic and social order ; the effort to legislate morality assumed that individual redemption was all that was needed to carry the colony forward from a pioneering society to a more mature one.

The use of a cantilever in bridge design was not a new idea, but the scale of Baker's undertaking was a pioneering effort, later followed in different parts of the world.

The pioneering effort, led by Ahmad Elnaggar, took the form of a savings bank based on profit-sharing in the Egyptian town of Mit Ghamr in 1963.

Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort for long because she was a teenager and became pregnant while unmarried.

Another major pioneering effort of the early hovercraft era was carried out by Jean Bertin's firm in France.

The construction of the Henry Draper Catalogue was part of a pioneering effort to classify stellar spectra, and its catalogue numbers are commonly used as a way of identifying stars.

Mooers trademarked the name TRAC in an effort to maintain his control over the definition of the language, an unusual and pioneering action at the time.

Through the pioneering effort undertaken by the then owner of the Mill Ibicaba in 1840, Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro ( known as Senator Vergueiro ), eighty Portuguese came to work on its lands.

Yet Parkman's work represents a pioneering effort ; in several ways he anticipated the kind of frontier history now taken for granted .... Parkman's masterful and evocative use of language remains his most enduring and instructive legacy.

Their recording of " Nonsense " ( Edison Lateral 14085 ) in September 1929 was an uptempo and frantic number that would be a pioneering effort of the sound that was to be known as western swing.

But on the whole his studies represent a pioneering effort to understand religions completely foreign to the British mind ".

In addition, the Government of Tamil Nadu has also made a pioneering effort to promote computing in Tamil with innovative measures such as:

A more successful effort at unity was the Friends Committee on National Legislation, originating during World War II in Washington, D. C., as a pioneering Quaker lobbying unit.

Ceres called Seventh Generation ’ s report " a pioneering effort in transparency for a privately owned company.

Together with Zenon Kuzelia, he also published a much larger Ukrainian-German Dictionary ( 1943 ; reprinted 1983 ) which was a pioneering effort in its day.

Published in 1952, the book was a significant success and is now considered a pioneering effort exploring relentless police work and attention to detail.

His last opera, The Stone Guest, is his most famous work, known as a pioneering effort in melodic recitative.

It was a pioneering effort, since only four other two-year institutions existed in Michigan at the time.

In 1955, DeCarava opened a New York City art gallery and exhibition space, pioneering an effort to win recognition for photography as a fine art ; the gallery remained open for over two years.

Other interesting corollaries were the first counting of simple knots by P. G. Tait, today considered a pioneering effort in graph theory, topology and knot theory.

They were reflecting trends in research and discourse initiated by Feminists in the academy, although they excused themselves from commenting specifically on those pioneering critics.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

Quite a few of the pioneering apologists were Baptist pastors, like I. M. Haldeman, or participants in the Plymouth Brethren, like William C. Irvine and Sydney Watson.

Major parts in the spread ( and thus more durable growth ) of the population were played by monastical ' pioneering ' ( especially by the Benedictine and Commercial orders ) and some feudal lords ' recruiting farmers to settle ( and become tax payers ) by offering relatively good legal and fiscal conditions.

A “ by-product of the industrial revolution ”, Elizabeth grew up in an atmosphere of “ triumphant economic pioneering ” and the Garrett children were to grow up to become achievers in the professional classes of late-Victorian England.

In Germany, the Stirnerists Adolf Brand and John Henry Mackay were pioneering campaigners for the acceptance of male bisexuality and homosexuality.

One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead and David Hilbert, were pioneering the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics.

The BBC said her documentaries “ were hailed as groundbreaking film-making, pioneering techniques involving cranes, tracking rails, and many cameras working at the same time ”.

Among Alberti's smaller studies, pioneering in their field, were a treatise in cryptography, De componendis cifris, and the first Italian grammar.

They also learned from Goldstine that, back in the UK, Douglas Hartree and Maurice Wilkes were actually building another such machine, the pioneering EDSAC computer, at the University of Cambridge.

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

At the same time, as project-scheduling models were being developed, technology for project cost estimating, cost management, and engineering economics was evolving, with pioneering work by Hans Lang and others.

Paolo worked in the Late Gothic tradition, and emphasized colour and pageantry rather than the Classical realism that other artists were pioneering.

As with other influential inventions such as radio, television, the light bulb, and the computer, there were several inventors who did pioneering experimental work on voice transmission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas.

As with Park's previous movies, the special effects achieved within the limitations of the stop motion technique were quite pioneering and ambitious.

Gilbert and Sanger were recognized for their pioneering work in devising methods for determining the sequence of nucleotides in a nucleic acid.

They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The cartoon-style platform games are notable for their pioneering use of EGA graphics and shareware distribution, and they were some of the first games by id Software ( which went on to develop blockbusters like Doom and Quake ).

Some of the pioneering techniques of contrast enhancement using Fourier analysis were developed at Ames in conjunction with researchers at ESL Inc.

Debussy was older than Ravel by some twelve years and his pioneering Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune was influential among the younger musicians including Ravel, who were impressed by the new language of impressionism.

Such wings were already being developed by several designers, including Hugo Junkers, whose work during 1915 resulted in the pioneering Junkers J 1, the world's first practical all-metal aircraft of any type.

In the road transportation arena these theories were extended by Maurice Allais, a fellow Nobel prize winner " for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources ", Gabriel Roth who was instrumental in the first designs and upon whose World Bank recommendation the first system was put in place in Singapore.

Maybe the Greeks were chosen for their unique contributions to art and philosophy, the Romans for their pioneering services in law and government, the British for bringing parliamentary rule into the world, and the Americans for piloting democracy in a pluralistic society.

Named for a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuit Order ), the Mission is also known as the " place where the water appears ," as there were once natural springs in the area.

While Marey's scientific achievements in the realms of cardiology and aerodynamics ( as well as pioneering work in photography and chronophotography ) are indisputable, Muybridge's efforts were to some degree more artistic rather than scientific.