Russian abacus began to lose popularity only after the mass production of microcalculators had started in the Soviet Union in 1974.

In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom the Northern Soul explosion, which started in late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco which the region's Disk Jockeys were bringing back from New York.

The first version was ready in 1974 / 5, and work then started on multi-table systems in which the data could be split so that all of the data for a record ( some of which is optional ) did not have to be stored in a single large " chunk ".

The Japanese government in 1974 started feasibility study under grant aid to develop and built Television in Afghanistan.

Guitarist Al Di Meola, who started his career with Return to Forever in 1974, was one of the first guitarists to perform in a " shred " style, a technique later used in rock and heavy metal playing.

In Japan, Osamu Kitajima's 1974 psychadelic rock album Benzaiten utilized electronic equipment such as a synthesizer and drum machine, and one of the record's contributors was Haruomi Hosono, who later started the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( as " Yellow Magic Band ") in 1977.

In 1974, Kurzweil started the company Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. and led development of the first omni-font optical character recognition system — a computer program capable of recognizing text written in any normal font.

The Expanded Programme on Immunization was started in 1974, as was the control programme into onchocerciasis – an important partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ), and World Bank.

Stellar X-ray astronomy is said to have started on April 5, 1974, with the detection of X-rays from Capella.

Close started her professional stage career in 1974, and her film work in 1982.

From the late stages of this notable period of high growth and huge development effort started in the 1950s, was the construction of Cahora Bassa dam by the Portuguese, which started to fill in December 1974 after construction was commenced in 1969.

They started the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1974, but English Heritage later banned the festival, resulting in the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985.

In 1974 Ray Kurzweil started the company Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. and continued development of omni-font OCR, which could recognize text printed in virtually any font.

In 1974, the Japanese government started a standards war of its own.

From the late stages of this notable period of high growth and huge development effort started in the 1950s, was the construction of Cahora Bassa dam by the Portuguese, which started to fill in December 1974 after construction was commenced in 1969.

In 1974, IBM started a project with a design objective of creating a large telephone-switching network with a potential capacity to deal with at least 300 calls per second.

* Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky, Candidates ' match, Leningrad 1974, game 1, Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation ( B83 ), 0 – 1 Spassky lost the match, but he started strongly with this fine win.

* Memphis Southmen ( had started out as the Toronto Northmen, but moved to Memphis, Tennessee before the start of the season ) 1974 – 1975 / Memphis Grizzlies 1975 (" official " team change name to Grizzlies after league folded in attempt to join the NFL ).

The NFL's regular season started on September 15 in 1974 and on September 21 in 1975 ; the WFL's regular season started on July 10 in 1974 and on July 26 in 1975 ( with the 1975 pre-season starting on July 5 ).

During the trial, which took place in February 1974, Movement 2 June and other extremists started a riot at the court ’ s exterior.

In 1974, Moon struck up a friendship with actor Oliver Reed, while working on the movie version of Tommy.

In 1974 Baddeley and Hitch proposed an alternative theory to the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model: Baddeley's model of working memory.

Baddeley and Hitch ( 1974 ) introduced and made popular the multicomponent model of working memory.

The Z80 came about when Federico Faggin, after working on the 8080, left Intel at the end of 1974 to found Zilog with Ralph Ungermann, and by July 1976 they had the Z80 on the market.

" Edwards ' biographers, William Luhr and Peter Lehman, in an interview in 1974, called him " the finest American director working at this time.

In 1974 a counterpart program, The Family, was made in the UK, following the working class Wilkins family of Reading.

Especially damaging to the government's credibility were the two miners ' strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which resulted in much of the country's industry working a Three-Day Week in an attempt to conserve energy.

In 1974, David Bell and Leonard LaPadula of MITRE, working under the close technical guidance and economic sponsorship of Maj. Roger Schell, Ph. D., of the U. S. Army Electronic Systems Command ( Ft. Hanscom, MA ), devised what is known as the Bell-LaPadula model, in which a more or less trustworthy computer system is modeled in terms of objects ( passive repositories or destinations for data, such as files, disks, printers ) and subjects ( active entities — perhaps users, or system processes or threads operating on behalf of those users — that cause information to flow among objects ).

Zilog was incorporated in California in 1974 by Federico Faggin, who left Intel after working on the 4004 and then the 8080 microprocessors.

In 1974, when VAZ 2121 development was almost finished, the engineers from Tolyatti began working on an amphibian off-roader, VAZ 2122 ' Reka ' (' River ') based on VAZ-2121 ' Niva ' underpinnings.

Canadian artist William Kurelek wrote and illustrated a book called Lumberjack ( 1974 ) 0-88776-378-2 about his days working in a logging camp.

Raskin later enrolled in a graduate music program at the University of California, San Diego ( UCSD ), but stopped to teach art, photography and computer science there, working as an assistant professor in the Visual Arts dept from 1968 until 1974.

The band continued, touring the UK in November 1975 ( as documented on the 2005 release Live in Sherwood Forest ' 75 ) and working on their next album Shamal with Jorge Pinchevsky on violin, but Hillage, who had been the band's de facto leader since Allen's exit, and his partner Miquette Giraudy, who had taken over from Smyth in late 1974, left before Shamal was released in early 1976.

The trio forged a working partnership and began collaborating on songs together starting in 1974.

who is believed to have killed over 200 patients in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, claimed at least one of his victims while working as a doctor at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre between March 1974 and September 1975.

Although the mechanism was already in widespread use in early line and character editors, Lawrence G. Tesler ( Larry Tesler ) popularized " cut and paste " in the context of computer-based text-editing while working at Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ) in 1974 – 1975.

John Hanley Sr. founded Lifespring in 1974 after working at an organization called Mind Dynamics with Werner Erhard, the founder of est, which became the basis for Landmark Education.

For example in the sciences, the " International Commission on Stratigraphy " ( ICS ) a standing working committee is doing organizational work establishing uniform naming and benchmarks in the geologic record and timeline since 1974, all under the auspices of the International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ).

In 1974 he joined Island, working on records with Squeeze, Patti Smith, and Sham 69, among others.

The Rete algorithm was designed by Dr Charles L. Forgy of Carnegie Mellon University, first published in a working paper in 1974, and later elaborated in his 1979 Ph. D. thesis and a 1982 paper ( see References ).

Archaeologists calculate that Silbury Hill was built about 4, 750 years ago and that it took 18 million man-hours, or 500 men working for 15 years ( Atkinson 1974: 128 ) to deposit and shape of earth and fill on top of a natural hill.

CQ Magazine also published details on phone phreaking, including the tone frequencies and several working blue box schematics in 1974.

Thom Bell stopped working with the Stylistics in 1974, and the split proved commercially devastating to the group's success in the U. S. Just as with the Delfonics, the Stylistics were to some extent a vehicle for Bell's own creativity.

For example, in the hung parliament in 1974, the serving Prime Minister Edward Heath attempted to remain in power but was unable to form a working majority.

In 1974 at the age of 19 Earle moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and began working blue-collar jobs during the day and playing music at night.