The history of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as Utah achieved statehood.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

Douglas Carl Engelbart ( born January 30, 1925 ) is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer.

Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the Laser Disc format, with " Whip It " getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt ( 1769 – 1859 ) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.

Peter Greenaway was an early pioneer of the use of computer generated imagery blended with filmed footage and was also one of the first directors to film entirely on high definition video for a cinema release.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 – 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.

Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom.

Proudhon was an early pioneer of anarchism as well as of the important individualist anarchist current of mutualism.

Id Software was an early pioneer in the Linux gaming market, and Id Software's Linux games have been some of the most popular of the platform.

Mormon history can be divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century.

File: Faraday. png | Michael Faraday ( 1791-1867 ): showed how a changing magnetic field can be used to generate an electric current ( Faraday's law of induction ), applied this knowledge to the development of several electrical machines, described principles of electrolysis, early pioneer in the field of low temperature study

The Dutch / Afrikaans term trekbokken refers to the large-scale migration of herds of springbok seen roaming the country during the early pioneer days of South Africa before farm fences were erected.

The English railway pioneer George Stephenson spent much of his early engineering career working for the coal mines of County Durham.

The Path of a pioneer: the early days of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church.

* December 10 – Augusta Ada King ( née Byron ), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer and the daughter of Lord Byron ( d. 1852 )

* November 27 – Augusta Ada King ( née Byron ), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer ( b. 1815 )

The term " bug " was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.

Being an early pioneer next to Rodolphe Töpffer in the art of combining words and pictures to tell often humorous stories in sequential panels, throughout the latter half of the 20th century Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics (" Grandfather of Comics ").

That service, United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was a pioneer in newsfilm syndication and numbered among its clients major US and foreign networks and local stations, including for many years the early TV operation of ABC News.

Balzac's extensive use of detail, especially the detail of objects, to illustrate the lives of his characters made him an early pioneer of literary realism.

Bildt was an early pioneer among politicians of using the Internet for communicating.

Audio processing was necessary for early radio broadcasting, as there were many problems with studio to transmitter links.

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Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or packet radio connection.

This proved critical in early tank battles where German tank commanders exploited the organizational advantage over the Allies that radio communication gave them.

The first single from Nobody's Daughter was " Skinny Little Bitch ", which was the most added song on alternative rock radio in early March 2010.

In the early Adventures of Superman radio episodes, Kal-El landed on Earth as an adult.

In the early 1960s Dave Brubeck was the program director of WJZZ-FM radio ( now WEZN ).

The crystal detector in these early crystal radio sets consisted of an adjustable wire point-contact ( the so-called " cat's whisker "), which could be manually moved over the face of the crystal in order to obtain optimum signal.

In the early radio age, content typically included comedy, drama, news, music, and sports reporting.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock and roll " due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll " on radio in the early 1950s.

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

Prior to the second world war, the subject was commonly known as radio engineering and basically was restricted to aspects of communications and radar, commercial radio and early television.

Freestyle's Top 40 Radio airplay peaked in 1987, and it began to disappear from the air waves in the early 1990s as radio stations moved to Top 40-only formats.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

He was also an avid fan of radio comedy from an early age, becoming especially drawn to that of The Goon Show.

Hoover's radio conferences played a key role in the early organization, development and regulation of radio broadcasting.

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

Albania's leaders abhorred the People's Republic of China's contacts with the United States in the early 1970s, and its press and radio ignored President Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing in 1972.

One of the early innovators of this approach was Marion " Little Walter " Jacobs, who played the harmonica near a " Bullet " microphone marketed for use by radio taxi dispatchers.

Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name " The Wizard ", was a recurring guest DJ on " The Electrifying Mojo " radio show on WJLB.