Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

Cuirasses and helmets were manufactured in Japan as early as the 4th century. Tankō, worn by foot soldiers and keikō, worn by horsemen were both pre-samurai types of early Japanese armour constructed from iron plates connected together by leather thongs.

The basic types of truss bridges shown in this article have simple designs which could be easily analyzed by nineteenth and early twentieth century engineers.

In a form improved from naturally occurring types, they were grown in Thailand since the early seventh millennium BCE, predating ceramics.

Early speculations into the nature of the chemical bond, from as early as the 12th century, supposed that certain types of chemical species were joined by a type of chemical affinity.

Examples of non-volatile memory include read-only memory ( see ROM ), flash memory, most types of magnetic computer storage devices ( e. g. hard disks, floppy discs and magnetic tape ), optical discs, and early computer storage methods such as paper tape and punched cards.

The Venerie of Twiti ( early 14th century ) distinguished three types of droppings of animals, and three different terms for herds of animals.

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).

This treatment is still in very early development stages for many types of cancer ..

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

Many early typefaces were modelled on local forms of writing or derived from the various European forms of Gothic script, but there were also some derived from documentary scripts ( such as most of Caxton's types ), and, particularly in Italy, types modelled on handwritten scripts and calligraphy employed by humanists.

The " rectangular shape " set, based on IEC 60617-12 and other early industry standards, has rectangular outlines for all types of gate and allows representation of a much wider range of devices than is possible with the traditional symbols.

Russell's theory of types was employed to great effect in Carnap's early anti-metaphysical polemics.

In the early part of the 20th century, information about the types and distances of stars became more readily available.

Examples of early theorems from classical model theory include Gödel's completeness theorem, the upward and downward Löwenheim – Skolem theorems, Vaught's two-cardinal theorem, Scott's isomorphism theorem, the omitting types theorem, and the Ryll-Nardzewski theorem.

In the early stages of European colonization in northeastern North America, indigenous peoples showed the arriving colonists how to tap the trunks of certain types of maples during the spring thaw to harvest the sap.

From early days, clothes-free beaches and other types of ad-hoc nudist activities have served those who wish to take part in naturist activities without belonging to any clubs.

Most early woodcuts of all types were coloured after printing, either by hand or, from about 1450 onwards, stencils.

The Volta associates, however, had been experimenting with both types, as early as 1881.

Preclinical and early clinical studies have been started to examine bortezomib's effectiveness in treating other B-cell-related cancers, particularly some types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Because the list of types of claims eligible for consideration was capped early during the development of the English legal system, claims that might have been acceptable to the courts ' evolving sense of justice often did not match up perfectly with any of the established forms of action.

The 16th century and early 17th century saw the continual improvement of many types of instruments.

These early canids probably evolved for the fast pursuit of prey in a grassland habitat ; they resembled modern civets in appearance.

The name cranberry derives from " craneberry ", first named by early European settlers in America who felt the expanding flower, stem, calyx, and petals resembled the neck, head, and bill of a crane.

The transition period that separated the Brezhnev and Gorbachev eras resembled the former much more than the latter, although hints of reform emerged as early as 1983.

The term cholera morbus was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to describe both nonepidemic cholera and other gastrointestinal diseases ( sometimes epidemic ) that resembled cholera.

The stereotype emerged early on of Scottish colliers as brutish, non-religious and socially isolated serfs ; that was an exaggeration, for their life style resembled the miners everywhere, with a strong emphasis on masculinity, equalitarianism, group solidarity, and support for radical labour movements.

The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire as a simplification of the Glagolitic alphabet which more closely resembled the Greek alphabet.

Response to Celebration has ranged from an early visitor who said it resembled the too-perfect town of The Stepford Wives, to those who see Celebration as a return to small-town values with walkable and safe communities.

To early observers with low-resolution telescopes, M27 and subsequently discovered planetary nebulae somewhat resembled the giant planets like Uranus, and William Herschel, discoverer of this planet, eventually coined the term ' planetary nebula ' for them, although, as we now know, they are very different from planets.

The clubs of the late 17th and early 18th century type resembled their Tudor forerunners in being oftenest associations solely for conviviality or literary coteries.

As sparkling wine production increased in the early 18th century, cellar workers had to wear heavy iron mask that resembled a baseball catcher's mask to prevent injury from spontaneously bursting bottles.

This early dipluran, Testajapyx, had compound eyes, and mouthparts that more closely resembled those of true insects than those of modern diplurans do.

In early Finnish writing, the curve to the bottom was omitted, thus the resulting letter resembled a ' n ' with a descender (' ɲ ').

In the early days of the race it was thought there was an obstacle near this point known as the Table Jump, which may have resembled a bank similar to those still seen at Punchestown in Ireland.

The style of his stage directing closely resembled that of his early films, a mixture of choreographed movement and static poses, taking its cues not from the traditions of stage theater, but from musicals, cabaret, films and the student protest movement.

In early times the representations of Nemesis resembled Aphrodite, who herself sometimes bears the epithet Nemesis.

With the immigration taking these farmers through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and other midwestern states, the early years of the community resembled midwestern farming communities more than those of the deep south.

Later, when deliberate sparkling wine production increased in the early 18th century, cellar workers would still have to wear a heavy iron mask that resembled a baseball catcher's mask to prevent injury from spontaneously bursting bottles.

The trigger mechanism of an early arquebus most often resembled that of a crossbow: a gently curved lever pointing backward and parallel to the stock ( see illustration of Spanish arquebusier below ).

His early life resembled that of other medieval kings.

At Chiavenna in 1547 he came under the influence of Paolo Ricci " Camillo Renato " of Sicily, a gentle mystic whose teaching at many points resembled that of the early Quakers.

In 1951 Packard replaced the old " bathtub " models with a new and more modern body that resembled typical cars of the early 1950s.

In its early years, the Rensselaer School resembled a graduate school more than it did a college, drawing graduates from many older institutions.

Likewise, when the sound era of cartoons began in the late 1920s, early animators such as Walt Disney gave characters like Mickey Mouse ( who already resembled blackface performers ) a minstrel-show personality ; the early Mickey is constantly singing and dancing and smiling.