In 1878 the London Livery companies established the City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of the engineering school ( still called City and Guilds college ) at Imperial College London.

Akiyama entered the Rikugunshikangakkō ( the forerunner of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy ) in 1877.

He graduated from the engineering department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1903 and went to work for Shibaura Seisakusho, the forerunner of Toshiba.

The co-ordination of Australia-wide defensive efforts in the face of Imperial German interest in the Pacific Ocean was one of driving forces behind federalism, and the Department of Defence immediately came into being as a result, while the Commonwealth Military Forces ( early forerunner of the Australian Army ) and Commonwealth Naval Force were also soon established.

The Imperial British East Africa Company ( IBEAC ) was the administrator of British East Africa, which was the forerunner of the East Africa Protectorate, later Kenya.

Manchukuo National Airways was established on 26 September 1931 in Fengtian by order of the Japanese Kwantung Army, out of the Manchurian branch office of Japan Air Transport, the forerunner of Imperial Japanese Airways.

He served as a professor of English at Kaisei Gakko, the forerunner of Tokyo Imperial University.

He served in the Imperial Foreign Ministry from 1908 to 1910, then as the president of the Nanyang Public School, the forerunner of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In 1935, he was appointed to the Imperial Arts Academy ( the forerunner of the Japan Art Academy ), and in 1937, He was one of the first people to be awarded the Order of Culture when it was established in 1937.

In 1940, the German government began funding him through the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt ( AVA, Aerodynamic Research Institute, forerunner of the DLR ), which used his work for the production of glide bombs.

* Thule Society, a German occultist group and forerunner of the Nazi Party

Hitler saw the link with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

Notable DFS-produced aircraft include the DFS 230 transport glider ( 1600 + produced ), the German counterpart to the British Airspeed Horsa glider, and the DFS 194 forerunner of the famous Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket fighter.

The Fi 2 served as both an important forerunner of later German aircraft ( which would go on to fight for the Third Reich in WWII, and as a famous piece of inter-war aircraft design, as well as being the winning aircraft of the first WAC.

As a German historian, he is a forerunner of Gottfried Arnold.

After unification of the Frankish kingdoms in the mid 8th century, Alzey passed in the 843 Treaty of Verdun to the Kingdom of the East Franks, a forerunner of the German Empire.

It can be considered both as a forerunner of, and a challenge to, the rather better known concept of Max Weber's: the ideal type ( in German Idealtyp ).

German joined the International Socialists, forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party ( SWP ) in the early 1970s, later becoming part of its elected central committee and therefore a full timer for the group by 1977.

The Ansbach was a German automobile manufactured from 1910 to 1913 by the forerunner of Faun, a company well known for its trucks and buses.

Commissioned by the Union of Armed Struggle, a forerunner of the Home Army, Wojciechowski created a concept of a post-war Polish – German border in 1941, which included an overview of the Polish and Polonizable part of the population in areas between the pre-war border and the Oder-Neisse line.

Nuremberg would capture national titles just before and after World War II in 1936 and 1948 in the first post-war national final, and would also take the Tschammerpokal, the forerunner of today's German Cup, in 1935 and 1939.

Adam Heinrich Müller ( 30 June 1779 – 17 January 1829 ) was a German publicist, literary critic, political economist, theorist of the state and forerunner of economic romanticism.

The forerunner of the Deutsche Christen ideology came from certain Protestant groups of the German Empire.

Roy, a German by birth who had arrived with his family in Chicago at the age of six, was a veteran of the early years of the NASL and its forerunner the NPSL.

The forerunner of the modern replenishment oiler was a Kriegsmarine ( German Navy ) ship, the Dithmarschen, which was built in 1938.

Broszat used as an example of his approach, the " Ley Plan " as the wide-ranging reform of the German social insurance system proposed in 1940 by the DAF was known, which Broszat noted borne many striking similarities to the British Beveridge Plan of 1943 ( through the German plan applied only to those classified as " Aryans ") Broszat argued that such a comparative approach would place the Nazi era in a better broader European and German context, especially since Broszat argued that the German plan of 1940 was in many ways the forerunner of the West German social insurance plan of 1957 with such features as pensions guaranteed by the state indexed to the level of GNP ( which was not surprising given that many of the same people worked on both plans ) Broszat called for the " normalization " of the historical understanding of the Nazi era with detailed scholarship employing " mid-range " concepts based upon empirical research and rejecting the moralistic condemnation of the period.

Upon his return with four German Shepherds, the forerunner of the PDU was established at the Police Training School ( now the Training Command ) at Thomson Road in 1955.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

He replaces his father and co-founder of the Christian Mission ( the forerunner of the Salvation Army ), William Booth.

The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang ( KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party ) army.

General Henry Knox, chief of the Continental Army artillery, was the leader responsible for building what was the country's first military artillery training academy, the forerunner to United States Military Academy at West Point.

Some of these aircraft eventually were incorporated into Army Aeronautical Museum ( The forerunner of the National Museum of the Air Force ), with its establishment in 1931.

Some of these incidents were the work of units of the SS-VT, forerunner of the Waffen-SS, but some involved regular Army units.

Palmer Long attended Sewanee Military Academy in Tennessee and LSU in Baton Rouge and was a flight instructor with the United States Army Air Corps, forerunner of the Air Force during World War II.

There he joined the Beiyang Army and the Tongmenghui secret political society ( the forerunner of Guomindang )

The forerunner of the DSN was established in January 1958, when JPL, then under contract to the U. S. Army, deployed portable radio tracking stations in Nigeria, Singapore, and California to receive telemetry and plot the orbit of the Army-launched Explorer 1, the first successful U. S. satellite.

::-United States Army Signal Corp, forerunner of the National Weather Service, issues its first hurricane warning.

Of Jebb's sisters, Louisa Wilkins established the forerunner of the Women's Land Army during the first world war, and Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton co-founded the children's international development agency Save the Children.

* Army Ordnance Department, a forerunner of the British Royal Army Ordnance Corps ( RAOC )

The first military organisations created were instructional battalions, officer schools, and the Army Academy, the forerunner to the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

* April 8 – A flight of Airco DH. 4s makes the first independent raid of World War I by aircraft of the United States Armys Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps, the forerunner of the United States Army Air Service.

In the following year, he was sent to Japan where he studied both at the Keio Gijuku ( the forerunner of the Keio University ) and the Toyama Army Academy.

This was the first recorded time that stationery had been sold at Army Post Offices, and can be regarded as the forerunner to the Field Service Post Card ( Army Form A2042 ) used in the First World War.

The Air Service, United States Army was a forerunner of the United States Air Force during and after World War I.

It was a component of the Canadian Army Non-Permanent Active Militia and the forerunner of the current Cadet Instructor Cadre.

It was a component of the Canadian Army Non-Permanent Active Militia and the forerunner of the current Cadet Instructor Cadre.