The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

Edward Vernon, the British admiral who devised the scheme, saw his 4, 000 occupying troops capitulate to local guerilla resistance, and more critically, a disease epidemic, forcing him to withdraw his fleet to British-owned Jamaica.

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

He described therein how small terms in the prognostic fluid dynamics equations governing atmospheric flow could be neglected, and a finite differencing scheme in time and space could be devised, to allow numerical prediction solutions to be found.

Merkle devised a scheme for communication over an insecure channel: Merkle's Puzzles.

Keith Rowley, QC, the barrister for the shareholders, alleged Byers had " devised a scheme by which he intended to injure the shareholders of Railtrack Group by impairing the value of their interests in that company without paying compensation and without the approval of Parliament ".

Weighted reference counting was independently devised by Bevan, in the paper Distributed garbage collection using reference counting, and Watson, in the paper An efficient garbage collection scheme for parallel computer architectures, both in 1987.

... by universal consent it was one of the grandest displays and most able financial statement that ever was heard in the House of Commons ; a great scheme, boldly, skilfully, and honestly devised, disdaining popular clamour and pressure from without, and the execution of it absolute perfection.

During the first decade of the Internet after the invention of the Domain Name System ( DNS ) it became apparent that the devised system based on the classful network scheme of allocating the IP address space and the routing of IP packets was not scalable.

The album became the artist's most commercially successful since Diamonds and Pearls, partly due to a radical scheme devised which included in Billboard's sales figures those that were distributed to each customer during ticket sales for the Musicology tour, with concert figures accounting for 25 % of the total album sales.

Edward Harley and John Blunt together had devised a scheme to consolidate this debt in a similar manner to that previously performed by the Bank of England, although the Bank still held the monopoly on operating as a bank.

To relocate the county seat to Bay Minette, the men of the town devised a scheme.

It has been asserted that he devised the scheme for settling the English crown on Lady Jane Grey ; at all events he was one of her advisers during her short reign, but he declared for Mary when he saw that Lady Jane's cause was lost.

The RSA devised a scheme for commemorating the links between famous people and buildings by placing plaques on the walls — these continue today as " blue plaques " which are administered by a range of government bodies.

What happened next is unclear, but it appears that some members of the Haxthausen family, led by Annette's step-aunt Anna ( who was in fact four years her junior ), disapproved of the relationship because Straube was a middle-class Protestant, and they devised a scheme to put an end to it.

The pair devised a scheme in which an elaborate fake crab was constructed and hid it deep in a canyon.

This was part of an elaborate land grab scheme devised by Tower and his partner, Alfred Munson of Utica, NY.

The ' TS ' implies that the county of Cleveland was originally to be named Teesside or that the postcoding scheme was devised for a larger County Borough of Teesside than was actually created.

Hogard devised a scheme to cut a new channel from the junction of the Welland and the Glen to Wyberton, on the estuary of the River Witham below Boston.

By the same token, McKenna argued that the invalidation of Section 10 would hamper Congress ' intentions, as a scheme devised for effective arbitration would thus come to lack an integral component.

Preston's lawyer, Bradley Palmer, had devised a scheme for the solution of the participants ' cash flow problems and was in the process of implementing it.

Rockefeller, along with Henry Rogers, devised a deceptive scheme which made them a profit of $ 36 million.

One of the most important organologists of the 20th century was Curt Sachs, who, as well as writing Real-Lexicon der Musikinstrumente ( 1913 ) and The History of Musical Instruments ( 1942 ), devised with Erich von Hornbostel the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of instrument classification, published in 1914.

A scheme was then devised that the prison should be restored and a museum built using voluntary labour and donated materials.

In his work, Antidosis, Isocrates states, " we have come together and founded cities and made laws and invented arts ; and, generally speaking, there is not institution devised by man which the power of speech has not helped us to establish ".

Bikram later devised the 26 postures sequence and founded Bikram ’ s Yoga College of India.

Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu ( c. 1546 – c. 1621 ), the founder of the Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū and Musō Shinden-ryū schools, is generally credited with the invention of iaijutsu, but this is contrary to the account of Iizasa Chōisai Ienao ( c. 1387 – c. 1488 ), who devised a system of drawing the sword and founded the Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū 100 years earlier.

During the following fifty years the community increased and endowments, including considerable landed estates, were secured, new fellowships were founded, the books which formed the foundation of the great library were acquired, a curriculum was devised and statutes were framed.

This glyph was likely devised when the pre-Hispanic settlement was founded around the 10th and 12th century.

It was founded in 1984 by Anne Wood, who later devised many of their television series, seen ( in the case of Teletubbies ) in 111 countries and translated into 41 languages.

He rowed for Cambridge, founded inter-varsity sports, became English Champion walker, coached four winning Boat-Race crews, devised the Queensberry Rules, staged the Cup Final and the Thames Regatta, instituted championships for billiards, boxing, cycling, wrestling and athletics, rowed beside Matthew Webb as he swam the English Channel and edited a national newspaper.

* Frederick W. Lanchester, engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company

The notation was commissioned by Louis XIV ( who had founded the Académie Royale de Danse in 1661 ), and devised in the 1680s by Pierre Beauchamp.

They were devised by Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest for use by the newly founded Sheffield Football Club.

The tsunami-warning system developed since the 1946 disaster in Hawaii relies mainly on a simple and ingenious instrument devised by Commander C. K. Green of the Coast and Geodetic Survey staff.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

When there is more than one substituent present on the ring, their spatial relationship becomes important for which the arene substitution patterns ortho, meta, and para are devised.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

German philosopher Immanuel Kant devised an argument from morality based on practical reason.

Other researchers relate archaeoastronomy to the history of science, either as it relates to a culture's observations of nature and the conceptual framework they devised to impose an order on those observations or as it relates to the political motives which drove particular historical actors to deploy certain astronomical concepts or techniques.

Based on his experience with cricket, Chadwick devised the predecessors to modern day statistics including batting average, runs scored, and runs allowed.

Many civilizations and societies have devised a calendar, usually derived from other calendars on which they model their systems, suited to their particular needs.

With his advances in the atomic theory of matter, John Dalton devised his own simpler symbols, based on circles, which were to be used to depict molecules.

He devised a unified orthography based on the Zezuru, Karanga and Manyika dialects.

In 1864, at Trinity College, also a college of the University of Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland and Frederick A. Bethune devised rules based on rugby football.

Later on, previous to modern power electronics, process control systems for industrial applications were devised by mechanical engineers using pneumatic and hydraulic control devices, many of which are still in use today.

With his golden ear, Porter found the studio's acoustics to be problematic, and he devised a set of acoustic baffles to hang from the ceiling, then selected positions for microphones based on resonant room modes.

Eventually Jones also devised symbols for central vowels and positioned these on the vowel diagram.

In time legs were fitted to larger floor toms, and " consolettes " were devised to hold smaller tom-toms on the bass drum.

The Gregorian calculation of Easter was based on a method devised by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius ( or Lilio ) for adjusting the epacts of the moon, and has been adopted by almost all Western Christians and by Western countries who celebrate national holidays at Easter.

It was created to extend the existing binary-coded decimal ( BCD ) interchange code, or BCDIC, which itself was devised as an efficient means of encoding the two zone and number punches on punched cards into 6 bits.

" In the longer text of the Martyrs of Palestine, chapter 12, Eusebius states: " I think it best to pass by all the other events which occurred in the meantime: such as [...] the lust of power on the part of many, the disorderly and unlawful ordinations, and the schisms among the confessors themselves ; also the novelties which were zealously devised against the remnants of the Church by the new and factious members, who added innovation after innovation and forced them in unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping misfortune upon misfortune.

His inventions were based on the printing mechanism from Hughes ' instrument, a distributor invented by Bernard Meyer during 1871, and the five-unit code devised by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber.

After the publication of Bell's paper, a variety of experiments were devised to test Bell's inequalities ( experiments which generally rely on photon polarization measurement ).

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

Others have achieved fame by association with dishes or cocktails created on their premises, such as the Hotel de Paris where the crêpe Suzette was invented or the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was devised.

Various scholars on early Wiccan history, such as Ronald Hutton, Philip Heselton, and Leo Ruickbie concur that witchcraft's early rituals, as devised by Gardner, contained much from Crowley's writings such as the Gnostic Mass.