Ceres was credited with the discovery of spelt wheat ( Latin far ), the yoking of oxen and ploughing, the sowing, protection and nourishing of the young seed, and the gift of agriculture to humankind ; before this, it was said, man had subsisted on acorns, and wandered without settlement or laws.

* Jethro Tull ( agriculturist ) ( 1674 – 1741 ), English agriculturist, often credited with inventing the seed drill

Two members of the Chicago Brass Quintet can arguably be credited with helping plant the seed for today's success of the brass quintet medium: Arnold Jacobs, tubist of the CBQ was teacher to the two founders Daellenbach and Watts of the Canadian Brass, while Renold Schilke, trumpet player in the CBQ and master craftsman, was mentor to the entire group, successfully crafting the first-ever matched set of gold-plated quintet brass instruments.

This multi-tube seed drill has been credited with giving China an efficient food production system that allowed it to support its large population for millennia.

The origin of White Burley tobacco was credited to George Webb and Joseph Fore in 1864, who grew it on the farm of Captain Frederick Kautz near Higginsport, Ohio, from seed from Bracken County, Kentucky.

In 1928 he challenged the ' seed vs soil ' hypothesis of metastatic tumor dissemination, originally credited to Stephen Paget and proposed that metastasis occurs purely by anatomic and mechanical routes.

The most important literary sources are the two epic poems traditionally credited to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey

Tolkien is credited with being the first critic to expound on Beowulf as a literary work with value beyond merely historical, and his 1936 lecture Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics is still required reading for students of Anglo-Saxon.

Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic ( OCS ) (, slověnĭskŭ językŭ ) was the first literary Slavic language, developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek ecclesiastical texts as part of the Christianisation of the Slavic peoples.

Arion () was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: " As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth ," The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth.

The " Three Giants of Yuanjia ," Bao Zhao 鮑照 ( d. 466 ), Xie Lingyun 謝霊運 ( 385 – 433 ), and Yan Yanzhi 顏延之 ( 384 – 456 ) are perhaps the most famous poets of the Song, each of them being credited as the originators of the three major literary trends to follow.

Al-Hamadhani ( d. 1008 ) of Hamadhan ( Iran ) is credited with inventing the literary genre of maqamat in which a wandering vagabond makes his living on the gifts his listeners give him following his extemporaneous displays of rhetoric, erudition, or verse, often done with a trickster's touch.

Sophocles is credited with skillfully developing irony as a literary technique, most famously in his play Oedipus the King.

Ancient literary critics credited him with inventing literary parody and " lame " poetic meters suitable for vigorous abuse, as well as with influencing comic dramatists such as Aristophanes.

Pushkin is credited with both crystallizing the literary Russian language and introducing a new level of artistry to Russian literature.

Sophocles is credited with skillfully developing irony as a literary technique, most famously in his play Oedipus the King.

Capp has credited his inspiration for vividly stylized language to early literary influences like Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Damon Runyon, as well as Old-time radio and the Burlesque stage.

Besides its importance in the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, Lazarillo de Tormes is credited with founding a literary genre, the picaresque novel, from the Spanish word pícaro, meaning " rogue " or " rascal ".

He credited the 19th century polymath Mihail Kogălniceanu, whose works he had first been reading as a child, with having shaped this literary preference.

Ibrăileanu additionally credited the Moldavian faction, Kogălniceanu included, with having helped introduce spoken Romanian into the literary language, at a time when both Ion Heliade Rădulescu and successors of the Transylvanian School made use of the dialect prevalent in Orthodox and Greek-Catholic religious culture.

Ramon Llull ( 13th century ), one of the major medieval writers in the Catalan language is not only saluted for starting a Catalan literary tradition clearly separated from the Occitan-speaking world of the time, but also credited with enriching the language with his coining of a large number of words, and his philosophy.

He also developed literary video and literary ad / EPK initiatives and was credited with boosting sales of new books, including Alice Munro ’ s Runaway.

Surdas ' verse is also credited as one that lifted the literary value of the Hindi language, transforming it from a crude to a pleasing tongue.

A version of events, supported on one occasion by the Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and made popular through the literary works of Marin Preda, credited Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin with the idea for the Canal – a project which was supposedly based on the Gulag

The ghilman are also credited with producing a strongly homosexual sub-culture which left literary traces in Persian poetry.

One of Hart's articles disputed the authorship of the literary works of Shakespeare, asserting that the famous plays and poems were in fact written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford rather than the man from Stratford-on-Avon who is credited with them.

Van Doren's study The American Novel, published in 1921, is generally credited with helping to re-establish Herman Melville's critical status as first-rate literary master.

Even though he is not the most prolific of Thailand's celebrated authors, Khamsing is credited with beginning a tectonic shift in Thai literary style and focus.

Ray Charles is credited with the song's most well known rendition in current times ( although Elvis Presley had success with it in the 1970s ).

Alfred is particularly credited with the success of this latter battle.

The singer's debut single, " Liza Jane ", credited to Davie Jones and the King Bees, had no commercial success.

Fianna Fáil's success was credited by The Irish Times to its local structure.

Produced by Lubin, " Jennie Lee " ( Arwin 108 ), backed with " Gotta Get a Date " ( credited to Ginsburg, Berry & Lubin ), became a surprise commercial success.

However, just how much of that success was due to the original Kurtzman template that he left for his successor, and how much should be credited to the Al Feldstein system and the depth of the post-Kurtzman talent pool, can be argued without resolution.

The success of Raising Hell is often credited with kick-starting hip hop's golden age, when rap music's visibility, variety, and commercial viability exploded onto the national stage and became a global phenomenon.

It is often credited with creating the kart-racing sub genre of video games, leading other developers to try to duplicate its success.

Super Mario Kart has been credited with inventing the " kart racing " sub-genre of video gaming and soon after its release several other developers attempted to duplicate its success.

Saving Private Ryan was a critical and commercial success and is credited with contributing to a resurgence in America's interest in World War II.

After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

In 1864 William Steinway, the son of Henry E. Steinway who is credited with establishing Steinway's remarkable success in marketing, built a set of elegant new showrooms housing more than 100 pianos on East 14th Street in Manhattan, New York City.

The film was originally released in the United States to mixed critical reviews and lackluster box-office earnings, but after it was screened at the 1977 London Film Festival, it became a critical and commercial success in Europe and is often credited with launching Carpenter's career.

The Tom Swift books have been credited with laying the foundations for success of American science fiction and with establishing the edisonade ( stories focusing on brilliant scientists and inventors ) as a basic cultural myth.

The task-force approach, combined with Johnson's electoral victory in 1964 and his talents in obtaining congressional approval, were widely credited with the success of the legislation agenda in 1965.

Patel's organising work in this period is credited by historians for ensuring the success of the rebellion across India.

During a case in the TV law drama Boston Legal, a method of proving reasonable doubt was credited to Perry Mason with much success.

" The success of the stage play was credited to this number, and when recreated in the film version of the play The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), it ushered in a new era in filmed dance.

Though LeMay is sometimes publicly credited with the success of the Berlin Airlift, it was, in fact, instigated by General Lucius D. Clay when General Clay called LeMay about the problem.

Her Olympic victories are credited with helping to demolish the convention that age and motherhood were a barrier to success in women's sport.

Also Sam Cassell ( widely credited as the biggest reason for the Clippers ' recent success ) signed a two-year, $ 13 million deal.

The film was a popular success and was credited by the Democratic National Committee with helping to re-elect Woodrow Wilson as the U. S. President in 1916.

With chart success in their native Germany, they have since been credited as the band " that set off the wave of what is known as medieval rock.