The pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, Southern's earliest predecessor line and one of the first railroads in the United States, was chartered in December 1827 and ran the nation's first regularly scheduled steam-powered passenger train – the wood-burning Best Friend of Charleston – over a six-mile section out of Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 1830.

It was the UP's second streamliner after the pioneering M-10000, the first equipped with a diesel engine and was a much longer train ( six cars ) than its three-car predecessor.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

The author also wrote pioneering biographies of many key fantasy writers, most as short articles, but two as full-length studies of the prominent authors Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, the first major independent biographies of both writers.

The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum offers award winning exhibits and programs that highlight the achievements of Martin and Osa Johnson, pioneering documentary filmmakers, photographers, authors, explorers, and Kansans.

Geoff became an internationally recognised patron saint of travellers in the third world and went on to be one of the pioneering authors for Lonely Planet ( 1977 – 1995 ).

In 2005, the authors of the Boyer-Moore family of provers, which includes ACL2, received the ACM Software System Award " for pioneering and engineering a most effective theorem prover (...) as a formal methods tool for verifying safety-critical hardware and software.

Mažvydas spent his youth in Vilnius, where he worked together with other pioneering Lithuanian authors from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, such as Abraomas Kulvietis, Jurgis Zablockis, and possibly Stanislovas Rapolionis.

In this book, the authors compared great chess champions throughout history using an advanced mathematical treatment ; while necessarily imperfect due to generational evolution in chess, it was in fact the pioneering work in this field.

Packard is one of the pioneering authors of the second-person fiction style made famous by the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books.

However, from a commercial point of view, Korda is best noted for pioneering best-selling novels by authors such as Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins that in the 1960s were considered very daring.

His sister, Mary Ellen Edgerton, was the wife of L. Welch Pogue ( 1899 – 2003 ) a pioneering aviation attorney and Chairman of the old Civil Aeronautics Board.

His 1977 doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley, was on the grammar of Mutsun, a dialect of Ohlone ( a. k. a. Southern Costanoan ), which is an extinct Utian language formerly spoken in the north central Californian coastal areas from Northern Costanoan down to 30 miles south of Salinas ( his dissertation was supervised by pioneering linguist Mary Haas ).

* Mary Reibey ( 1777 – 1855 ), pioneering entrepreneur who graces the $ 20 note

Another member of the circle was pioneering English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Among the operas he conducted for the company were Handel's Julius Caesar starring Janet Baker and Valerie Masterson ; five Janáček operas ; The Marriage of Figaro with pioneering use of 18th century performing style ; Massenet's Werther ; Donizetti's Mary Stuart with Baker ; and Sullivan's Patience.

His parents, Ira Oscar Knapp and Flavia Stickney Knapp, were students of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and they were pioneering workers in its growth.

* Mary Price, teacher at Bromley St Leonard's church school ; mother of Professor Ralph Kekwick FRS ( 1908 – 2000 ), biochemist who did pioneering work on human blood plasma

Born in what is Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec today, he was the son of Lt .- Colonel Gabriel Marchand ( 1780 – 1852 ) J. P., and Mary MacNider, a woman of the Anglican faith, daughter of the pioneering John MacNider, 2nd Seigneur of Metis, Quebec.

Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse KP FRS ( 17 November 1840 – 29 August 1908 ) was the son and successor of the astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse who built the " Leviathan of Parsonstown " telescope, largest of its day, and his wife, the Countess Rosse ( née Mary Field ), an amateur astronomer and pioneering photographer.

The first volume is dedicated to the memory of several pioneering women in the movement, with the name of Mary Wollstonecraft listed above all other names.

Their daughter, Mary Corinna Putnam ( 1842 – 1906 ) was a pioneering female doctors, the first woman admitted to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris.

Other prominent alumnae include pioneering sportswriter Mary Garber, 2006 Man Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown, Lee Smith, photographer Sally Mann, and Ellen Malcolm, founder of EMILY's List.

In the afterword to Becoming Mary Mehan, Armstrong states that after finishing The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan, she took a train to northern Canada with only one book: a collection of essays about the pioneering naturalists of North America.

Indian logic attracted the attention of many Western scholars, and has had an influence on pioneering 19th-century logicians such as Charles Babbage, Augustus De Morgan, and particularly George Boole, as confirmed by his wife Mary Everest Boole in an " open letter to Dr Bose " titled " Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century " written in 1901:

Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild ( 1855 – 1921 ) was a pioneering American librarian and library educator.

Mary Caffrey Low Carver ( 1850-March 4, 1926 ) was one of the five founding members of the Sigma Kappa sorority and a pioneering advocate for women's education, along with being an accomplished library scientist and writer.

He was a cousin of journalist and writer Lyn Irvine, and also of pioneering female surgeon Eleanor Davies Colley and of political activist Harriet Shaw Weaver.

In May 2010 he was awarded the 2010 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Four Freedoms Award for Freedom from Fear for his pioneering work on the responsibility to protect concept and his contributions to conflict prevention and resolution, arms control and disarmament.

A chance surviving copy of Willis ' pioneering De anima brutorum, a gift the author, was chosen by Hooke from Wilkins ' library on his death as a memento at John Tillotson's invitation.

He made this reassignment, even before she started working at King's, because of the following pioneering work by Maurice Wilkins and Raymond Gosling-a Ph. D. student assigned to help Franklin.

The field was established in the 1950s — 1970s, for example with pioneering contributions by Azriel Rosenfeld, Herbert Freeman, Jack E. Bresenham, or King-Sun Fu.

In recent years, the study of Cappadocian has seen a revival following the pioneering work on Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988 ) by Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman, and a series of publications on various aspects of Cappadocian linguistics by Mark Janse, professor at Roosevelt Academy, who has also contributed a grammatical survey of Cappadocian to a forthcoming handbook on Modern Greek dialects edited by Christos Tzitzilis ( Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ).

Born in Calcutta, India, his parents were Henry Thoby Prinsep, for sixteen years a member of the Council of India, and Sarah Monckton Pattle, sister of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron ( née Pattle ) and Maria Jackson ( née Pattle ), grandmother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

For his work, Pande was awarded the 2012 Michael and Kate Bárány Award for Young Investigators for " developing field-defining and field-changing computational methods to produce leading theoretical models for protein and RNA folding " as well as the 2006 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award for his simulation results which " have stimulated a re-examination of the meaning of both ensemble and single-molecule measurements, making Dr. Pande ’ s efforts pioneering contributions to simulation methodology.

These have included the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and the French writer and pioneering feminist George Sand ( who wrote a notable account of A Winter in Majorca, describing their 1838 – 39 visit and praising the island's natural beauty but criticizing what she perceived as the prejudice and vices of the natives ).

The game, Night Trap, was not a great success, but is considered a pioneering title as it was the first game to use live actors, specifically a well known personality ( Plato ).

As well as and in parallel with his role at SIL, Pike spent thirty years at the University of Michigan, during which time he served as chairman of its linguistics department, professor of linguistics, and director of its English Language Institute ( he did pioneering work in the field of English language learning and teaching )

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

The success of these pavilions further influenced the 1967 Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, where multi-screen highlights included In the Labyrinth, hailed by Time magazine as a " stunning visual display ," their review concluding: " such visual delights as Labyrinth ... suggest that cinema — the most typical of 20th century arts — has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities ," as well as A Place to Stand, which displayed Christopher Chapman's pioneering " multi-dynamic image technique " of shifting multiple images.

Fascist propaganda of this sort, Adorno wrote, " simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today ’ s standardized mass culture who have been robbed to a great extent of their autonomy and spontaneity " The result of these labors, the 1950 study The Authoritarian Personality was pioneering in its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting and evaluating data as well as its development of the F-scale.

He embarked upon his magnum opus-Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova ( ut vocantur ) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio-which as well as a detailed account of his experiments on the vacuum, contains his pioneering electrostatic experiments in which electrostatic repulsion was demonstrated for the first time and sets out his theologically based view of the nature of Space.

Between 1987 and 1992, trading of natural resources and foreign currencies, as well as imports of highly demanded consumer goods and then domestic production of their rudimentary substitutes, rapidly enabled these pioneering entrepreneurs to accumulate considerable wealth.

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.

He was well known for his compassionate, effective and pioneering treatments ; as Sassoon's testimony reveals, he treated his patients very much as individuals.

Terrasa has a local newspaper, the Diari de Terrassa, that is published daily from Tuesday to Saturday, as well as several radio stations: Ràdio Terrassa / Cadena SER Vallès on 828 AM and 89. 4 FM, with more than 75 years of history behind it, being one of the pioneering radio stations in Catalonia and Spain ; the municipal radio ( Noucincpuntdos, 95. 2 FM ); and Radio Star de Terrassa, the city's cultural station, on 100. 5 FM, which was founded in 1984 and is one of the historic local radios of Catalonia.

Rarebit Fiend has been the inspiration for a number of films, including Edwin S. Porter's live-action Dream of the Rarebit Fiend in 1906, as well as four pioneering animated films by McCay himself: How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and 1921's Bug Vaudeville, The Pet and The Flying House.

The PFLP is well known for pioneering armed aircraft hijackings in the late ' 60s and early ' 70s.

The Stadtbahn is well known in transport circles around the world for pioneering the concept of operating trams on train tracks, to achieve a more effective and attractive public transport system, to the extent that this is often known as the Karlsruhe model tram-train system.

The service was later renamed Discovery 40, in reference to its 40 column screen format, as well as to distinguish it from another Telecom service, Discovery 80. The Viatel system had a very rapid take up in its first year due to the efforts of GEC Manager Terry Crews and his pioneering work on home banking for the Commonwealth Bank.

Tailleferre wrote many of her most important works during the 1920s, including her 1st Piano Concerto, the Harp Concertino, the ballets Le marchand d ' oiseaux ( the most frequently performed ballet in the repertoire of the Ballets suédois during the 1920s ) and La nouvelle Cythère which was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the ill-fated 1929 season of the famous Ballets Russes, and Sous les ramparts d ' Athènes in collaboration with Paul Claudel, as well as several pioneering film scores, including B ' anda, in which she used African themes.

Partly through these methods, researchers at Rothamsted have made significant contributions to agricultural science, including the discovery and development of systemic herbicides and pyrethroid insecticides, as well as pioneering contributions to the fields of virology, nematology, soil science and pesticide resistance.

* A massive fire in Edinburgh's Old Town destroys part of the pioneering Informatics department of the University, as well as a major venue for the Edinburgh Fringe.

These pure breeds were typically developed by pioneering peoples who needed a dog that was highly protective of the family and farm, as well as a capable stock driver.

Although the project was subsequently marred by financial problems − a result of the pioneering nature of the venture − the Concert for Bangladesh is recognised as a highly successful and influential humanitarian aid project, generating both awareness and considerable funds as well as providing valuable lessons and inspiration for aid projects that followed, notably Live Aid.

Past chancellors include two Nobel laureates ; pioneering scientist Gerhard Herzberg and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, as well as six Order of Canada recipients.

Rémy Julienne is a well known pioneering automotive stunt performer and coordinator.

Two further titles were later won in successive years, as Wolves cemented their position as the premier team in English football and became globally renowned for their on-field success as well as high-profile floodlit friendlies against top European club sides and the pioneering development of the Cullis “ kick and rush ” style of football.

This public museum was founded in 1926 on Andersson's pioneering discoveries of prehistoric archaeology made in China in the 1920s, and later expanded to cover later periods as well as other parts of Asia.

Dissipative structure theory led to pioneering research in self-organizing systems, as well as philosophical inquiries into the formation of complexity on biological entities and the quest for a creative and irreversible role of time in the natural sciences.

Jonathan Douglas " Jon " Lord ( 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012 ) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, as well as Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods, and The Flower Pot Men.