Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts ; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424-25.

The earliest known electronic game joystick with a fire button was released by Sega as part of their 1969 arcade game Missile, a shooter simulation game that used it as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move a motorized tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

It was also the earliest known arcade game to feature a joystick with a fire button, which was used as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move the player's tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

The earliest mention of Murdoch's thoughts and plans for this method of transport was in March 1784 when his colleague in Cornwall, Thomas Wilson, wrote to Watt on Murdoch's " new scheme ":

The earliest alphabet-related system of numerals used with the Greek letters was a set of the acrophonic Attic numerals, operating much like Roman numerals ( which derived from this scheme ), with: ; and with represented by composites of Π and a tiny version of the applicable power of ten.

In classical cryptography, one of the earliest encryption methods was the simple substitution cipher, where letters in a message were systematically replaced using some secret scheme.

As it makes its way through the town centre to Firepool weir and the junction with the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, it passes under the North Bridge, constructed in 1895 and including globe lamps which are thought to be part of the earliest electric street lighting scheme in a British town, and Priory Bridge Road.

The scheme breathed the spirit of the Renaissance ; provision was made for the teaching of Greek, Erasmus praised the institution and Pole was one of its earliest fellows.

One of the earliest visual representations of the claustral plan is the Carolingian plan of St. Gall, a copy made at Reichenau of a scheme worked out at the two reforming synods held at Aachen, 816 and 817.

The earliest known proposal to irrigate the Grand Coulee with the Columbia River dates to 1892, when the Coulee City News and The Spokesman Review reported on a scheme by a man named Laughlin McLean to construct a dam across the Columbia River, high enough that water would back up into the Grand Coulee.

He joined the London-based firm of PW and CS Meik as a pupil ( coincidentally, engineering brothers Patrick Meik and Charles Meik were also born in Bishopwearmouth ) in the early 1900s and one of his earliest projects was the Kinlochleven hydroelectric scheme in the Western Highlands of Scotland, where he worked as assistant resident engineer.

Although part of the road will be brought up to a dual carriageway standard, parts will become a ' wide single carriageway ' This scheme has been postponed until 2015 at the earliest and currently route protection is being lifted.

Most modern cryptographic hash functions process messages in fixed-length blocks ; all but the earliest ( and most broken ) of these hash functions include some sort of padding scheme.

The earliest scheme was adopted in Sydney in 1970s, the Ring Road scheme.

It is considered a book descendant of Celestina ( written some thirty years before by Fernando de Rojas ) because of the literary scheme, the dialogued novel, and one of the earliest manifestations of the picaresque novel.

The earliest work was the butterfly scheme by Dyn, Levin and Gregory ( 1990 ), who extended the four-point interpolatory subdivision scheme for curves to a subdivision scheme for surface.

Aurelian's work is the first to cover plainchant, in the period immediately after Gregorian chant became standardized in northern and western Europe, and it also has the earliest extant sample of musical notation, although the particular notational scheme he used has so far resisted definitive interpretation, and it only appears in one small section of his book.

Despite this, the opposers to the scheme mounted a legal challenge in June 2005, which will probably mean that opening of the extension will be delayed until 2009 at the earliest.

" It was part of the Bishop of Durham ’ s scheme to keep revenue in the Bishopric which would have " pilgrimed " to Canterbury on one of the earliest " Package-Tours ’ Food, transport Accommodation and " Rep " s ‘ Geoffrey Chaucer wrote of such, in his " Canterbury-Tales ".

Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been " shanghaied " from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d ' Estaing ; however, they soon went on strike to protest their kidnapping.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Because negative pressure dialysis gave better recovery of proteins, permitted detection of proteins concentrated from very dilute solutions and was a gentler procedure, it was used in all but the earliest experiments.

From the earliest days of the motor car industry, before the A.L.A.M. was established, patent infringement loomed as a serious and vexing problem.

Such an analysis speedily reveals why the middle number of the Lo Shu, 5, was so vitally significant for the Chinese ever since the earliest hints that they had a knowledge of this diagram.

His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

Some time after this mosaic was executed, the earliest depictions of Christ would also be beardless and haloed.

The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars.

One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

One of the earliest group automorphisms ( automorphism of a group, not simply a group of automorphisms of points ) was given by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus, where he discovered an order two automorphism, writing:

One of the earliest steps towards atomic physics was the recognition that matter was composed

The earliest known record of argot was in a 1628 document.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

Apart from the lost Handboc or Encheiridion, which seems to have been a commonplace book kept by the king, the earliest work to be translated was the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, a book greatly popular in the Middle Ages.

It was confirmed in 2010 that these remains belong to her — one of the earliest members of the English royal family.

This is a history of Spain from the earliest times down to 1456, and was printed at Granada in 1545, and also in the Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores aliquot, by R. Bel ( Frankfort, 1579 ).

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.