* 1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.

He even organized the first national trapshooting organization, a forerunner to today's Amateur Trapshooting Association.

Bessemer also obtained a patent in 1857 for the casting of metal between contrarotating rollers-a forerunner of today's continuous casting processes and remarkably, Bessemer's original idea has been implemented in the direct continuous casting of steel strip.

It was the forerunner of today's Old Palace ( Altes Schloss ) and was expanded and renovated many times.

Each issue contained programs, utilities, and games and was a forerunner of today's computer magazines that come packaged with CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.

In 1914, the Allegheny County Council, forerunner of today's Greater Pittsburgh Council, was chartered.

He developed and tested many versions of the mask ( including the forerunner of today's mask / helmet combination ) with the assistance of other experts.

Spring 1959 saw the formation of the Lewes & East Grinstead Railway Preservation Society, forerunner of today's Bluebell Railway Preservation Society.

In 1915 he became a founding member of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America.

Some of the sea floor, however, was scraped off and jammed against the mainland, creating the dome that was the forerunner of today's Olympics.

This was a forerunner of today's shopping mall The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy followed in the 1870s and is closer to large modern malls in spaciousness.

This franchise, along with three other IHL teams, merged with the Canadian-American Hockey League to form the International-American Hockey League, forerunner of today's American Hockey League.

This unit was the forerunner of today's black boxes being able to withstand conditions that aircrew could not.

The forerunner of today's Chūō Main Line included a station at Nakano en route from Shinjuku to Hachioji.

This situation lasted until 1931, when the Federal Radio Commission ( a forerunner to today's FCC ) moved WNYC to 810 AM.

The intellectual collector of such curiosities was the forerunner of today's professional natural historian and scientist.

The forerunner of today's Lebkuchen was called the " honey cake " and its history can be traced back to the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.

He formed the Seychelles People's United Party ( the forerunner to today's Seychelles People's Progressive Front ) in 1964.

In 1947, the Big Ten Conference and the Pacific Coast Conference, a forerunner of today's Pacific-12 Conference, agreed to commit their champions to play in the Rose Bowl every year, an agreement that continued under the BCS.

Wearing his standard jumpsuit, he urged his audience " with the enthusiasm of an evangelist ," to get off their couch and copy his basic movements, a manner considered the forerunner of today's fitness videos.

At first the village was an early forerunner of today's bedroom communities, populated by people who worked in Manhattan, but it quickly developed its own local industries and craftsmen as it developed into a full-fledged town ( Jackson, 1995 ).

Tolerant also developed a forerunner of today's RAID systems by incorporating a journaling file system and multiple copies or N-plexing the disk drive content.

Mack Fulwyler was the inventor of the forerunner to today's flow cytometers-particularly the cell sorter.

In 1955 the various regional stations were brought together as the Österreichisches Rundspruchwesen (" Austrian Broadcasting Entity ") which later, in 1958, became the Österreichischer Rundfunk GmbH, forerunner of today's ORF.

In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs, New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home, in February 1970.

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.

In 1905 Carnegie funds became available and with the help of the Board of Trade ( forerunner to the Chamber of Commerce ), and the Monrovia Women's Club, a bond issue was passed to purchase the Granite Bank Building to be used as a City Hall, and to acquire property for a public park.

Union City was a stop along the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, a forerunner of the Pennsylvania Railroad that connected Pittsburgh to Chicago and St. Louis.

Later, he studied at Luther College in Wahoo, receiving a diploma in 1911, then at the Institute of Musical Art, the forerunner of the Juilliard School, in New York City, where he studied with the composer and music theorist Percy Goetschius in 1914.

Indeed, much of the present day central Ballymun lies on lands once in the northern reaches of the Albert Agricultural College estate, the forerunner of the present-day Dublin City University ( D. C. U. ).

Despite an automatic exemption from military duty because of his handicap and his service in the legislature, he joined a special " briefs " club for the protection of New York City, a forerunner of the modern New York Guard.

Prominent members of the new party included Stephen Rainbow ( a former member of the Wellington city council ), Guy Salmon ( head of the Maruia Society, forerunner to today's Ecologic Foundation ), and Gary Taylor ( a former Waitemata City city councillor ).

At the outbreak of World War I, she and Titus moved to New York City, where she opened a cosmetics salon in 1915, the forerunner of a chain throughout the country.

The forerunner of the City Of South Sydney was the Northcott Municipal Council, which was created in 1968 when the City of Sydney boundaries were changed.

In addition to being a forerunner of geothermal installations in Manhattan, it is the first publicly accessible system in New York City.

At that time, delegates set up a National Advisory Council ( the forerunner of the present International Council ), and elected Irene Copeland Lugland of Kansas City as the first National President.

On 27 June 1982 Brymon Captain Harry Gee landed a Dash 7 aircraft on Heron Quay to demonstrate the feasibility of the STOLport project, the forerunner to the London City Airport project.

David Shepherd was the producer of North America's first professional improvisational theater The Compass Players in Chicago, which, was the forerunner of the Second City.

Schell's father Orville Hickok Schell, Jr., was a prominent lawyer who headed the New York City Bar Association, chaired the human rights group Americas Watch from its founding in 1981 until his death in 1987, co-founded Helsinki Watch, forerunner to Human Rights Watch, and became the namesake of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.

* Boulder, Western Australia, forerunner of City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Derry Celtic were the forerunner to Derry City, who had the opportunity to purchase the ground in 1933, but hesitated on a decision and the Derry County Board bought it ten years later.

In many ways, the technical school was the forerunner of today ’ s City Technology College.