I want to make clear what I consider the one technical development in the first wave of significant post-war arts.

This was the first launch delay in the Apollo program due to a technical problem.

Abhinavagupta offers for the first time a technical definition of rasa which is the universal bliss of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of a drama.

He encouraged technical investigation, and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first technical journal, Technical Studies, in the Field of the Fine Arts, published by the Fogg from 1932 to 1942.

This was a result of the adaptation to the Bologna process that started in 2004 at Chalmers ( as the first technical university in Sweden ).

The limited memory capacity of early computers led to substantial technical challenges when designing the first compilers.

* The first technical design study of a self-replicating interstellar probe was published in a 1980 paper by Robert Freitas

This technical leadership and the rivalry with IBM was emphasized when the Systempro server was launched in late 1989-this was a true server product with standard support for a second CPU and RAID, but also the first product to feature the EISA bus, designed in reaction to IBM's MCA ( MicroChannel Architecture ).

The original versions of his papers contained " many technical errors of varying degree "; when the collection was first published, the errors were corrected and it was found that this could be done without major changes in the statements of the theorems, with one exception — a claimed proof of the Continuum hypothesis.

The Oxford English dictionary cites a 1962 technical report as the first to use the term " data-base.

* On February 2, 2000, Philippe Binant, technical manager of Digital Cinema Project at Gaumont in France, realized the first digital cinema projection in Europe with the Texas Instruments mark V prototype projector.

The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.

Some realistic references to ARPA in fiction are in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X ( DARPA consults on a technical threat ), in episodes of television program The West Wing ( the ARPA-DARPA distinction ), the television program Numb3rs ( DARPA research into creating the first self-aware computer ), and in the motion picture Executive Decision ( use of a one-of-a-kind experimental prototype in an emergency ).

Harris himself considered it a dictionary ; the work is one of the first technical dictionaries in any language.

It can be seen from this illustration that a true understanding of cost performance and schedule performance relies first on measuring technical performance objectively.

He was the first to use the word " group " () as a technical term in mathematics to represent a group of permutations.

While many mathematicians before Galois gave consideration to what are now known as groups, it was Galois who was the first to use the word group ( in French groupe ) in a sense close to the technical sense that is understood today, making him among the founders of the branch of algebra known as group theory.

After the detonation of the first Soviet fission bomb in August 1949, he, along with Isidor Rabi, wrote a strongly worded report for the committee which opposed the development of a hydrogen bomb on moral and technical grounds.

Trams began carrying the passengers on the 1 July 2006 but during the first weeks there were many technical difficulties.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

By extending the 16 / 24-bit IBM PC / AT standard into a natively 32-bit computing environment, Compaq became the first third party to implement a major technical hardware advance on the PC platform.

At first, academic offerings included only today's equivalent of technical training or junior college courses ; however authorization to award bachelor's degrees was granted in 1916.

During the first years of the 19th century, lithography had only a limited effect on printmaking, mainly because technical difficulties remained to be overcome.

* 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.

In May 2006, climber Dean Potter made the first recorded free solo ( no ropes or protection ) ascent of this formation.

The first navy of the Caliph of Córdoba or Emir was built after the humiliating Viking ascent of the Guadalquivir in 844 when they sacked Seville.

* 1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II ( 8, 035 m ).

* 2012 – Polish mountaineers Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb make the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum I.

Sir Edmund Hillary made his first ascent in January 1948.

In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.

* 1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

* On-Sight Climbing, the ascent of a rock climbing route on the first attempt, with no falls, without prior knowledge of its specifics beyond its difficulty rating and number of protection points, if a bolted climbing route.

* 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers ' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, ( tethered balloon ).

An image plate from the first palace of Phaistos, seems to be very close to the mythical image of the Anodos ( ascent ) of Persephone.

* 1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian ( 5, 199 m – 17, 058 ft ), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

At about this time, the people of the lagoon elected their own leader for the first time, although the relationship of this ascent to the uprisings is not clear.

The first ascent of LZ1 over Lake Constance ( the Bodensee ) in 1900

The first ascent of LZ1 over Lake Constance ( the Bodensee ) in 1900.

* July 14 – First ascent of the Matterhorn: The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time, by a party of seven led by the Englishman Edward Whymper ; four die in a fall during the descent.

* May 13 – A joint Swiss & Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain, Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.

** Reinhold Messner ( Italy ) and Peter Habeler ( Austria ) made the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

* August 27 – English lawyer Alfred Wills and party set out for the first ascent of the Wetterhorn in Switzerland, regarded as the start of the " golden age of alpinism ".

* The first ascent is made of Castle Mountain by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman.

* Pedro Teixeira makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito, Ecuador.

She continues her ascent first in post-war Paris and then in London where she is patronised by the great Marquis of Steyne, who covertly subsidises her and introduces her to London society.

Hamish Brown did the first continuous self-propelled round of the Munros ( except for the Skye and Mull ferries ) between 4 April and 24 July 1974 walking, of which were on a bicycle, with of ascent.

However, white explorers may not have been the first to climb many of the peaks and the earliest first ascent of even the formidable Grand Teton itself might have been achieved long before written history documented it.