It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

Mr. Brown made important additions to the arts in screw machine design by drastically improving the means for revolving the turret, by introducing automatic feeding devices for the stock, and reversible tap and die holders.

* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

The many records of native customs and beliefs made by the Spanish chroniclers means that Brown archaeoastronomy is most often associated with studies of astronomy in the Americas.

Caltech opened its doors to female undergraduates during the presidency of Harold Brown in 1970, and they made up 14 % of the entering class.

Among contemporary writers, the satirist Craig Brown has made considerable use of the clerihew in his columns for The Daily Telegraph.

While in prison, he formed a gospel quartet with fellow cell mates Johnny Terry, " Hucklebuck " Davis and a person named " Shag ", and made homemade instruments-a comb and paper, a washtub bass, a drum kit made from lard tubs and for Brown, what he called " a sort of mandolin out of a wooden box.

Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, in which Chan was required to finish Brown's act after Brown was accidentally knocked out by Chan.

In the Known Space stories, Niven had created a number of technological devices ( GP hull, stasis field, Ringworld material ) which, combined with the " Teela Brown gene ", made it very difficult to construct engaging stories beyond a certain date — the combination of factors made it tricky to produce any kind of creditable threat / problem without complex contrivances.

In May 2004, Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution made the accusation that major parts of the Linux kernel had been copied from the MINIX codebase, in a book called Samizdat.

Multihull Designers that have made their mark and are considered the pioneers of multihull design and the ones that have made multihulls so popular today are: James Wharram ( UK ), Derek Kelsall ( UK ), Loch Crowther ( Aust ), Hedly Nicol ( Aust ), Malcolm Tennant ( NZ ), Jim Brown ( USA ), Arthur Piver ( USA ), Chris White ( US ), Ian Farrier ( NZ ), LOMOcean ( NZ ).

Tarantino has defended his use of the word, arguing that black audiences have an appreciation of his blaxploitation-influenced films that eludes some of his critics, and, indeed, that Jackie Brown, another oft-cited example, was primarily made for " black audiences ".

Then on third down, Theismann made a key pass completion to Brown to the 9-yard line.

Midway through the third period, Brown made his first interception and returned it 44 yards to the Pittsburgh 18-yard line to set up running back Emmitt Smith's 1-yard touchdown run.

However, Brandon Mitchell blocked the kick, Troy Brown picked up the ball at the 40 and ran 11 yards before lateraling to Antwan Harris, who took it 49 yards for a touchdown that made the score 21 – 3.

Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).

* Brown bread is made with endosperm and 10 % bran.

On leaving JHU, he accepted a position ( involving the teaching of statistical mechanics to graduate students in chemistry ) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where it became clear that he was no better at teaching advanced students than freshmen, but he made significant contributions to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.

Although other abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison did not endorse his tactics, Brown dreamed of fighting to create a new state for freed slaves, and made preparations for military action.

Clarke's success was such that Brown felt he had to pledge to keep to Clarke's spending plans in January 1997, ahead of the election which was due to be held in May 1997 because the Labour Party considered its economic credibility to be its biggest electoral weakness.

In the 1795 gubernatorial election, Benjamin Logan received 21 electoral votes, James Garrard received 17, Thomas Todd received 14, and John Brown received 1.

Brown was one of the 31 representatives who voted against counting the electoral votes from Ohio in the United States presidential election, 2004.

Two years prior to his defection, in a speech in the House of Commons Davies described Gordon Brown as " extraordinarily incompetent ", " imprudent ", " extraordinarily naïve " and said in conclusion " I trust and believe that something nasty will happen to the Chancellor in electoral terms before too long.

He attacked Prime Minister Gordon Brown saying he "... now wants to fiddle the electoral system " by wanting to look at a Preferential Voting system with a single transferrable vote, similar to that used in Australia and other countries.

Eighteen of those electoral votes went to Brown.

Brown lost a third electoral contest in 1910, falling to Lendrum McMeans in Winnipeg South, 2545 votes to 2496.

In 1982, after the electoral defeat and retirement of David Tonkin, Olsen defeated Brown for the State Liberal Party leadership.

For the 1985 election, an electoral redistribution left both Brown and Stan Evans vying for Liberal preselection for the safe Liberal seat of Davenport.

Brown then led the Liberal party to a landslide electoral win at the 1993 South Australian election, becoming premier.

After the 1982 election and the electoral defeat and retirement of David Tonkin, Olsen defeated Brown for the State Liberal Party leadership and became Leader of the Opposition.

Thanks to the electoral reform that had occurred, with more urban electoral districts to contest, the urban-based LM greatly increased its parliamentary representation, with seven members in the House of Assembly ( including Hall, Millhouse and future Premiers David Tonkin and Dean Brown ), three in the Legislative Council, and one in the Australian House of Representatives ( Ian Wilson ).

In the Presidential election of 1872, Governor Palmer received three electoral votes for Vice President by electors who had voted for the Liberal Republican Party's Vice Presidential candidate B. Gratz Brown for President after the death of Horace Greeley.

Callahan has also managed and staffed numerous electoral campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Vice Presidents Al Gore and Walter Mondale, and campaigns for Senator Kent Conrad, Congressman Howard Wolpe and Congressman George Brown.

With the aid of Danniels and the newly enlisted engineer Terry Brown, the band released their self-titled debut album in 1974, which was considered highly derivative of Led Zeppelin.

After telling Tim Lovejoy that, if The Specials reformed, he would reunite the Stone Roses, Mani announced that he, Reni and John Squire wanted to reunite for the 20th anniversary of the debut album but that he needed to persuade Ian Brown.

Additionally, the 1988 – 89 season featured the debut of Larry Brown as the Spurs head coach who moved to San Antonio after winning the NCAA National Championship with the University of Kansas in 1988.

Written, produced by, and starring Brown, it was based loosely on a song by the same name from her debut EP.

Brown made his first acting debut making a guest appearance in the 1989 film, Ghostbusters II, playing the Mayor's Doorman.

In 1998, Romano made her Broadway debut in the musical Parade by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown as Mary Phagan.

* Jim Edward, Maxine, and Bonnie Brown – The Browns ( debut )

In 1990, she made her Broadway debut replacing Ruth Brown as star of the hit musical Black and Blue.

* Julie Brown made her television debut in the episode " Ahhh Wilderness " as one of three girls who went camping with Richie, Fonzie et.

Fly by Night is the band's first album to be produced by Terry Brown, who had remixed the band's debut album.

The characters and the baseball park settings are apparently inspired by Ring Lardner's well-known baseball short story " Alibi Ike " ( 1915 ), filmed in 1935 as the comedy Alibi Ike, starring Joe E. Brown in the title role and Olivia de Havilland in her film debut.

The commercial breakthrough of D ' Angelo's debut album Brown Sugar ( 1995 ) has been regarded by several writers and music critics as inspiration behind the term's coinage.

Her roles include the touring productions of Unsinkable Molly Brown, Most Happy Fella, The Boy Friend, Brigadoon, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma !, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Meet Me in St. Louis, Peter Pan, The Girl Next Door and How She Grew, and Irene, in which she made her Broadway debut, following Debbie Reynolds in the title role.

*" Brown Sugar " ( debut live performance of the song, recorded days earlier in Alabama )

Their eponymous debut album, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown ( 1968 ) contained the song " Fire ", a chart-topping hit single in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, with Crane's organ on the leads.

After a break from music in Morocco, Brown established his solo career with the debut solo single " My Star ", which was released in the UK on 12 January 1998.

He made his professional debut at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino against Tim Brown, shortly after his 19th birthday.

He made his Raw debut by attacking D ' Lo Brown on an episode of Sunday Night Heat, with Theodore Long switching his managerial services from Brown to Mack .< ref >

By the time the play made its delayed debut in London Ivor Brown thought it " very much of its time and already seems a trifle faded.

She performed with the dance troupe of Katherine Dunham before making her professional debut in George Abbott's Brown Sugar.

Brown Brigade's debut album Into the Mouth of Badd ( d ) ness was released September 18, 2007 in Canada and Japan only and became critically successful, even though it was not released widely in the US and have not brought the band any outside attention, the band still continues to tour Canada in support of the album.

One-time Buster Brown bass guitarist Geordie Leach was recruited to record their self-titled debut LP, Rose Tattoo, which reached the top 40 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart in November 1978.

The June 27, 1940, debut of the film version at New York City's Radio City Music Hall was chronicled in a photo spread by The New York Times, " showing some of the pastimes, curricular and otherwise ", as the fight scene between Tom Brown and Flashman was captioned.

On October 30, 1981, the New Jersey Nets, who had played their previous four seasons at the Louis Brown Athletic Center at Rutgers University while the arena was being built, relocated to the Meadowlands and made their Brendan Byrne Arena debut, losing to the New York Knicks, 103 – 99.