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.

The earliest evidence of the Chinese calendar is found on the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty ( late second millennium BC ), which seem to describe a lunisolar year of 12 months, with a possible intercalary 13th, or even 14th, added empirically to prevent calendar drift.

In the modern era, flaming was used at east coast engineering schools as a present participle in a crude expression to describe an irascible individual and by extension to such individuals on the earliest Internet chat rooms and message boards.

Furthermore, the Mohist philosophical canon of the Mojing, compiled by the followers of Mozi ( c. 470-c. 390 BC ), provides the earliest known attempt to describe inertia: " The cessation of motion is due to the opposing force ... If there is no opposing force ... the motion will never stop.

Although some books ( in particular guidebooks ) suggest that the mazes on cathedral floors served as substitutes for pilgrimage paths, the earliest attested use of the phrase " chemin de Jerusalem " ( path to Jerusalem ) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.

Some books ( guidebooks in particular ) suggest that mazes on cathedral floors originated in the medieval period as alternatives to pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the earliest attested use of the phrase " chemin de Jerusalem " ( path to Jerusalem ) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.

This is one of the earliest references linking an area legend with dinosaurs, and has been argued to describe a Mokèlé-mbèmbé-like creature.

The earliest known use of the term " transubstantiation " to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ that was believed to occur in the Eucharist was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ( died 1133 ), in the eleventh century and by the end of the twelfth century the term was in widespread use.

The earliest known use of the term " transubstantiation " to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ( died 1133 ), in about 1079, long before the Latin West, under the influence especially of Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1227-1274 ), accepted Aristotelianism.

The earliest treatise to mention the possible connection of the name to the expression pas menus is Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source does not describe the steps as being particularly small or dainty ( Russell 2006, 140 – 41 ).

The name " crustacean " dates from the earliest works to describe the animals, including those of Pierre Belon and Guillaume Rondelet, but the name was not used by some later authors, including Carl Linnaeus, who included crustaceans among the " Aptera " in his.

Although he was writing decades later, he is the earliest author to describe the actual foundation of the Templar order.

Significantly, the earliest surviving treatise to describe the modern movement of the queen ( as well as the bishop and pawn ), Repetición de amores e arte de axedres con CL iuegos de partido ( Discourses on Love and the Art of Chess with 150 Problems ) by Luis Ramírez de Lucena, was published during the reign of Isabella I of Castile.

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

The earliest detailed records, dating from the Dutch arrival in 1624, describe the aborigines as living in independent villages of varying size.

The earliest source to describe the Battle of Mons Badonicus is De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae ( On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain ), written by the monk Gildas in the mid 6th century.

The film was one of the earliest cinematic efforts to describe the Holocaust, and it is still quoted extensively by succeeding directors, including Steven Spielberg in Schindler's List.

The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in pied ( multicolored ) clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return.

The earliest development is somewhat shrouded in mystery ; for instance Flanagan & Nutting's 1835 catalog mentions a ' Penstemon Hybridum ' but does not describe it.

In the paper, they describe one of the earliest computational models in biochemistry, that is the basis of most of the models used in Neurobiology during the following four decades.

The earliest Latin example is by Tertullian ( c. 220 ), who used the phrase to describe a mixed substance with composite properties such as electrum, a somewhat different sense than the modern meaning.

One of the stories they describe is the tale of Urashima Tarō, which has been identified as the earliest example of a story involving time travel.

The earliest mention of them in print refers to them as " variety theaters " and describe the entertainment as " variety shows ".

The earliest records of the college ’ s sporting clubs describe the colours as ' grey and ruby '.

The earliest documents describe a built-up town in the 11th century by the Arab geographer Al-Bacr ( who was later supported by the poets Luís de Camões and Lord Byron ).

Finally, Kenneth Kitchen rejects the term co-regency to describe the relationship between Seti I and Ramesses II ; he describes the earliest phase of Ramesses II's career as a " prince regency " where the young Ramesses enjoyed all the trappings of royalty including the use of a royal titulary and harem but did not count his regnal years until after his father's death.