The first abjad to gain widespread usage was the Phoenician abjad.

In addition, a 2010 Cochrane Collaboration review of trials of Risperidone, one of the biggest selling antipsychotics and the first of the new generation to become available in generic form, found only marginal benefit compared with placebo and that, despite its widespread use, evidence remains limited, poorly reported and probably biased in favor of risperidone due to pharmaceutical company funding of trials.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

The first widespread use of a chord keyboard was in the stenotype machine used by court reporters, which was invented in 1868 and is still in use.

One form of this widespread language is used in Daniel and Ezra, but the use of the name " Chaldee " to describe it, first introduced by Jerome, is incorrect and a misnomer.

Nevertheless, the 1541 became the first disk drive to see widespread use in the home and Commodore sold millions of the units.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

Prior to the end of the slave trade and widespread abolition, when indigenous labour was unavailable, slaves were often imported to the Americas, first by the Spanish Empire, and later by the Dutch, French and British.

The first widespread distributed systems were local-area networks such as Ethernet that was invented in the 1970s.

Beginning in 1973, INGRES delivered its first test products which were generally ready for widespread use in 1979.

Due to its widespread distribution, Doom hence became the game that introduced deathmatching to a large audience ( and was also the first game to use the term " deathmatch ").

In May 1220 at Bologna the Order's first General Chapter mandated that each new priory of the Order maintain its own studium conventuale thus laying the foundation of the Dominican tradition of sponsoring widespread institutions of learning.

Washington opposed the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies, and began taking a leading role in the growing colonial resistance when protests against the Townshend Acts ( enacted in 1767 ) became widespread.

Italian-run ice cream parlours were the first large wave of foreign-run eateries in Germany, becoming widespread in the 1920s.

But the word " glyph " first came to widespread European attention with the engravings and lithographs from Frederick Catherwood's drawings of undeciphered glyphs of the Maya civilization in the early 1840s.

Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U. S. appearances of the term in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.

Honeymoons in the modern sense ( i. e. a pure holiday voyage undertaken by the married couple ) became widespread during the Belle Époque, as one of the first instances of modern mass tourism.

According to the recently most widespread presumption, Finno-Ugric ( or Uralic ) languages were first spoken in Finland and the adjacent areas during the ( typical ) Comb Ceramic period, around 4000 BCE at the latest.

Internet Protocol Security ( IPsec ) was originally developed for IPv6, but found widespread deployment first in IPv4, into which it was back-engineered.

* 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.

Lyell's books had widespread influence, not least on the up and coming young geologist Charles Darwin who read them with enthusiasm during his voyage on the Beagle, and has been described as Lyell's first disciple.

While Sunni Islam was the state religion, there was not widespread pressure to convert ; indeed, Jahangir specifically warned his nobles that they " should not force Islam on anyone .” In the first century of Islamic expansion this attitude was taken partially because of concerns that an absence of non-Muslims would deprive the state of a valuable source of revenue.

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

* 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

The first AFVs were armoured cars, dating back virtually to the invention of the motor car.

Aristotle argued against the idea of a first cause, often confused with the idea of a " prime mover " or " unmoved mover " ( or primus motor ) in his Physics and Metaphysics.

In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, trimming motor vehicles and in 1914 they built their first one-off car body for an imported chassis, with larger contracts following.

Big industrial cities such as Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester as well as parts of Newcastle and Nottingham also have large diaspora populations due to the Industrial Revolution and, in the case of the first two, the strength of the motor industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

* 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a ' motor race '.

* 1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.

These in turn in some cases became highways – with attendant problems all over New Zealand ( but especially in the more mountainous regions ), as the geography and contours of a slow-speed road laid out in the first half of the 20th century usually do not conform to safety and comfort criteria of modern motor vehicles.

The first challenge involved the construction of a tiny motor, which, to Feynman's surprise, was achieved by November 1960 by William McLellan, a meticulous craftsman, using conventional tools.

* In 1978, Peter Hammill on his album The future Now in the song " A motor bike in Afrika " was the first to mention Biko ( after his death ) in England.

In single-word-recognition tasks, non-stutterers showed cortical activation first in occipital areas, then in left inferior-frontal regions such as Broca ’ s area, and finally, in motor and premotor cortices.

The stutterers also first had cortical activation in the occipital areas, but, interestingly, the left inferior-frontal regions were activated only after the motor and premotor cortices were activated.

They were once used to directly drive mechanical devices such as ships ' propellers ( for example the Turbinia, the first turbine-powered steam launch ,) but most such applications now use reduction gears or an intermediate electrical step, where the turbine is used to generate electricity, which then powers an electric motor connected to the mechanical load.

These were the first ferries on the route designed to carry motor vehicles and could carry 800 passengers and 16 cars.

Alvin's first attempt fails: after experiencing difficulty starting the old mower's motor, he doesn't get far before the machine finally breathes its last, and he is forced to flag down a passing bus.

The study is important as the first paper to correlate motor learning with white matter changes.

* Ányos Jedlik creates the world's first electric motor.

* September 29 – Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory drivers licenses for operators of motor vehicles.

* 1889: Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky of Gatchina, Russian Empire created the first squirrel-cage induction motor.

* 1828 – Ányos Jedlik creates the world's first electric motor.

* May 26 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race is held, and is won by André Lagache and René Léonard.

* Thomas Davenport, the inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars.