EFTPOS technology originated in the United States in 1981 and was quickly adopted by other countries.

EFTPOS technology originated in the United States in 1981 and was rolled out in 1982.

Jetsprinting as an organised sport originated in New Zealand in 1981, and events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat, but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s permanent artificial courses were used — and this is now the norm even in New Zealand.

In her 1981 work Symbiosis in Cell Evolution she argued that eukaryotic cells originated as communities of interacting entities, including endosymbiotic spirochaetes that developed into eukaryotic flagella and cilia.

In 1980, MPR originated the Peabody Award-winning show, Saint Paul Sunday, which went national via syndication in 1981.

Many claim that the first wave originated in Seattle at the University of Washington's Husky Stadium on October 31, 1981, at the prompting of Dave Hunter ( Husky band trumpet player ) and Robb Weller ( later Entertainment Tonight co-host, and then a television producer ).

The game of paintball originated in Henniker in 1981.

A new stage production of The Marvelous Land of Oz was mounted in Minneapolis in 1981, with music composed by Richard Dworsky, a book by Thomas W. Olson, and lyrics by Gary Briggle, who originated the role of the Scarecrow.

The game originated from the California Raisin Bowl, which was played in Fresno from 1981 – 1991.

It originated in Australia between 1976 and 1980, and appears first in the literature in a series of six InDepth articles by the same name published by US Computerworld in May-June 1981.

On May 15, 1985, Samms appeared in the fifth season finale " Royal Wedding " as Fallon Carrington Colby, a role originated by Pamela Sue Martin in 1981.

In 1981, she originated the role of Victoria the White Cat in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.

After being originated by Elissa Leeds in 1976, she was portrayed by Julia Barr from 1976 to 1981 and from 1982 to 2006.

The regional government agency originated from a 1965 state statute and 16 years later, in 1981, the RTC was named the Metropolitan Planning Organization ( MPO ) for Southern Nevada.

Modern steam beer, also known as California common beer, was originated by Anchor Brewing Company, which trademarked the name Anchor Steam Beer in 1981.

Created by Herman and Larry Alford in 1981, the show originated as a modest presentation at Onstage, a nightclub located in the theatre district in midtown-Manhattan ( New York City ).

Other notable stage appearances include Mass Appeal ( 1981 ) in which he originated the role of " Father Tim Farley " ( for which he was nominated for a Tony Award as " Best Actor "), Corpse!

The Burmilla is a breed of domestic cat which originated in the United Kingdom in 1981.

In 1981, he originated the Texton Theory, which states that textons, composed of local image features, are " the putative units of pre-attentive human texture perception ".

She originated the role in the 1981 stage show The Pee-wee Herman Show and on the CBS television show Pee-wee's Playhouse.

It is said to have originated in Australia between 1976 and 1980, and appears first in the literature in 1981 in the Savant Institute publication Information Engineering by James Martin and Clive Finkelstein.

In the 1981 season she played the old lady at the movie theater, a role that had been originated by Ruth Buzzi on Whatever Turns You On.

* Elaine Paige, who originated the role of Grizabella in the West End production of Cats, released a version of the song that was a Top 10 hit in the UK, peaking at # 6 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1981.

The title, which originated as the American Wrestling Alliance United States Championship and was renamed in 1968, existed from 1960 until 1981.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

Gateball, a sport originated in Japan under the influence of croquet, is played mainly in East and Southeast Asia and the Americas, it can also be regarded as a croquet variant.

It originated in sociology under the term " social constructionism " and has been given the name " constructivism " when referring to philosophical epistemology, though " constructionism " and " constructivism " are often used interchangeably.

The idea of MWI originated in Everett's Princeton Ph. D. thesis " The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction ", developed under his thesis advisor John Archibald Wheeler, a shorter summary of which was published in 1957 entitled " Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics " ( Wheeler contributed the title " relative state "; Everett originally called his approach the " Correlation Interpretation ", where " correlation " refers to quantum entanglement ).

The rules of modern fencing originated from France, where the first known book on fencing, Treatise on Arms, was written by Diego de Valera between 1458 and 1471, shortly before dueling came under official ban by the Catholic Monarchs.

Modern fencing originated in the 18th century, in the Italian school of fencing of the Renaissance, and, under their influence, was improved by the French school of fencing.

Around this time, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of John Romero's Softdisk games, Dangerous Dave, and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address.

In his reconstruction of proto-Volta – Congo, Steward ( 1976 ) postulates that nasal consonants have originated under the influence of nasal vowels ; this hypothesis is supported by the fact that there are several Niger – Congo languages that have been analysed as lacking nasal consonants altogether.

The family originated in Tuscany, in the town of Poliziano, which had once been subject to Siena, but later was under the control of Florence.

This refers to the Italian province of Lombardy, where pawn shop banking originated under the name of Lombard banking.

A certain race of pears, with white down on the under surface of their leaves, is supposed to have originated from P. nivalis, and their fruit is chiefly used in France in the manufacture of perry ( see also cider ).

It is similar to and probably originated from bacteriorhodopsin ( see below under archaea ).

The current most regularly used rule set — the one that is used on the international tournament stage — originated in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan in the 1970s: the Japanese game company Tsukuda Original registered the game under the trademark name Othello.

It is the Americanized version of a card game that originated in Central Europe in the late 18th century under the German name Schafkopf.

This originated a dispute with the Emperor, as this transfer had already been done under the reign of Ezzo.

Thus, Trotsky argues, because a majority of the branches of industry in Russia were originated under the direct influence of government measures — sometimes with the help of government subsidies — the capitalist class was again tied to the ruling elite.

The brand originated in the United Kingdom when Hutchison Whampoa acquired a controlling stake in Microtel Communications Ltd during the early-1990s and rebranded the company under the new name.

Isaac was the son of Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, the strategos autokrator of the East under Emperor Basil II Manuel originated in Thrace and was possibly of Vlach ancestry, though other ethnic origins have been suggested.

Fingerprint identification, also referred to as individualization, involves an expert, or an expert computer system operating under threshold scoring rules, determining whether two friction ridge impressions are likely to have originated from the same finger or palm ( or toe or sole ).

While serving as a Congressman, Curtis originated and helped pass the Curtis Act of 1898, with provisions that included bringing the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma under land allotment and restructuring provisions.

The ploegg or East Frisian rott was a compact holding that originated with a single lineage or kinship, whose men in early times went to war under their chief, and devolved in medieval times into a union of neighbors rather than kith and kin.

" The time and circumstances under which the name South Orange originated will probably never be known ," wrote historian William H. Shaw in 1884, " and we are obliged to fall back on a tradition, that Mr. Nathan Squier first used the name in an advertisement offering wood for sale " in 1795.

Vertigo originated in 1993 under the stewardship of Karen Berger, a Brooklyn College graduate with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Art History, who had joined DC Comics in 1979 as an assistant to editor Paul Levitz, debuting with House of Mystery # 292 after a Sgt.

Telewest originated in Croydon in 1984 under the name " Croydon Cable ".