In the earliest days of railways, trains were slowed or stopped by the application of manually applied brakes on the locomotive and in brake vehicles through the train, and later by steam power brakes on locomotives.

The earliest trains were provided by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, whose system connected with the line at.

Some of the earliest O gauge trains made of tinplate weren't scale at all, made to unrealistic, whimsical proportions similar in length to modern HO scale, but anywhere from one and a half to two times as wide and tall.

The earliest toy trains date from the 19th century and were often made of cast iron.

In Wengen, skiers requested use of the train system for access to the slopes ; for some years trains were the earliest ski-lifts in the area.

Lionel's earliest trains were larger than the sizes commonly available today, running on two-rail track with the rails 2 inches apart.

Some of the earliest instances appeared with the railroads, where freight trains have clear ( i. e. passenger-free ) tracks to run on at night.

Four morning mid-spaced additional trains ( including the earliest ) run to Waterloo via Twickenham and three return that way in the evening peak.

The earliest ATO system on a full Underground line was on the Barcelona Metro line 2 ( now integrated on L5 ), which ran from 1963 until 1970 on its seven trains.

The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

The earliest inscriptions in the Aramaic language use the Phoenician alphabet.

The Bridgewater Foundry, pictured in 1839-one of the earliest factories to use an almost modern layout, work flow and material handling system.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

This is the earliest use of Germania.

* Lake, Fred & Wright, Hal ( 1974 ) A Bibliography of Archery: an indexed catalogue of 5, 000 articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war, and recreation, from the earliest times to the present day.

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

" Paddy on the Railway " is attested as a chanty in the earliest known published work to use the word " chanty ," G. E.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

RODS is designed to draw collect data from many data sources and use them to perform signal detection, that is, to detect a possible bioterrorism event at the earliest possible moment.

The earliest bricks were dried brick, meaning they were formed from clay-bearing earth or mud, and dried ( usually in the sun ) until they were strong enough for use.

This example, from May 15, 1920, is the earliest known use of " Big Apple " to refer to any city.

The earliest known tool for use in computation was the abacus, and it was thought to have been invented in Babylon circa 2400 BC.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

The archaeological site of Xihoudu in Shanxi Province is the earliest recorded use of fire by Homo erectus, which is dated 1. 27 million years ago.

The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication.

The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

All but the very earliest 1541s can use either the Alps or Newtronics mechanism.

He argued that the term bretwalda " falls into line with the other evidence which points to the Germanic origin of the earliest English institutions ".

In the earliest days of the forward pass, the pass would have to be caught in-bounds, and could not be thrown across the goal line ( as the receiver would be out of bounds ).

Bipedalism is the basic adaption of the Hominin line, and the earliest bipedal Hominini is considered to be either Sahelanthropus or Orrorin, with Ardipithecus, a full bipedal, coming somewhat later.

The earliest patent was taken out by Henry Palmer in the UK in 1821, and the design was employed at Deptford Dockyard in South-East London, and a short line for moving stone from a quarry near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire to the River Lea.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

The earliest comprehensive theory of light was advanced by Christiaan Huygens, who proposed a wave theory of light, and in particular demonstrated how waves might interfere to form a wavefront, propagating in a straight line.

This theory is supported by a study into the SLC24A5 gene which found that the allelle associated with light skin in Europe may have originated as recently as 6, 000 – 10, 000 years ago which is in line with the earliest evidence of farming.

A dominant line of scholarship has held that Rome lacked a body of myths in its earliest period, or that this original mythology has been irrecoverably obscured by the influence of the Greek narrative tradition.

* Delay line memory, a form of computer memory used on some of the earliest digital computers

The earliest known depiction of a fishing reel comes from a Southern Song ( 1127 – 1279 ) painting done in 1195 by Ma Yuan ( c. 1160 – 1225 ) called " Angler on a Wintry Lake ," showing a man sitting on a small sampan boat while casting out his fishing line.

The earliest fixed-spool reels, known as " turnabouts " were used as centrepin reels in retrieving line but the spool was turned 90 degrees for casting and then turned back to retrieving position.

In 1559, a member of the line, Duke Wolfgang, founded the earliest grammar school of the town ( Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium ), which existed until 1987.

Later, during the Babylonian Exile, the Exilarchs ( officially recognised community leaders ) claimed Davidic lineage, and when the Exile ended, Zerubbabel ( the leader of the first Jews to return to Yehud province ) was also of the Davidic line, as were Shealtiel ( a somewhat mysterious figure ) and Nehemiah ( one of the earliest and most prominent Achamenid-appointed governors of Yehud ).

The eldest son became the first in a line of earliest Vietnamese kings, collectively known as the Hùng kings ( Hùng Vương or the Hồng Bàng Dynasty ).

A number of animated cartoons were produced, including the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit ( 1953 ), in which Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings My Old Kentucky Home in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line ; Uncle Tom's Bungalow ( 1937 ), a Warner Brothers cartoon supervised by Tex Avery ; Eliza on Ice ( 1944 ), one of the earliest Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry ; and Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), an eight-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

In the earliest buildups, each line terminated on a single machine at CompuServe's host, so different numbers had to be used to reach different computers.

The earliest wiretaps were extra wires —“ connected to the line between the telephone company ’ s central office and the subscriber — that carried the signal to a pair of earphones and a recorder.

The earliest postwar subdivisions were developed on the Eastbank of Jefferson Parish (" East Jefferson ") along the pre-existing Jefferson Highway and Airline Highway routes, often relatively far-removed from the New Orleans city line, as land prices were lower further away from New Orleans and land assembly was easier.

Some of the earliest settlers near present day Avilla were John K. Gibson in 1831 ( just across the Lawrence County line ), James Blackwell in ' 35 and John Fishburn on White Oak Creek in 1836.

Several of the earliest new Vertigo series derived from Disney Comics ' aborted Touchmark Comics imprint, a line announced before the so-called " Disney Implosion " of 1991, and subsequently abandoned.

The earliest white settlers first arrived in the area in the 1730s, traveled north of the Blue Mountain at the modern Berks-Schuylkill County line at that time.

On the line between Cowley and Sumner counties is a remarkable group of salt springs that flow from 100 to 450 gallons each per hour, that have been known since the earliest settlement of that section.

Loewe's earliest songs, such as the Acht Jugenlieder and the Anakreontische Lieder, follow the musical pattern of the late 18th century tradition, using a single melodic line, basic accompaniment, and mostly strophic and varied strophic forms.

Three years later the first nine miles ( 14 km ) or so of this line, the stretch from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom, was superseded by a more viable section linking Six Mile Bottom directly with Cambridge, and so the Great Chesterford-Six Mile Bottom section closed in 1851, one of the earliest closures in British railway history ( the former Bourne Bridge station is believed to have been partly incorporated into a public house just across the road from a station opened later on another line-Pampisford, on the now-closed Cambridge-Haverhill-Sudbury route ).

Among the earliest published proposals for television was one by Maurice Le Blanc in 1880 for a color system, including the first mentions in television literature of line and frame scanning, although he gave no practical details.