That service, United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was a pioneer in newsfilm syndication and numbered among its clients major US and foreign networks and local stations, including for many years the early TV operation of ABC News.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln, having lived with relatives and friends in Massachusetts for three years, she returned to work at the patent office in the autumn of 1860, now as temporary copyist, in the hope she could pioneer to make way for more women in government service.

In 1925, air power pioneer General Billy Mitchell testified on Capitol Hill that it was necessary " to have an air academy to form a basis for the permanent backbone of your air service and to attend to the ... organizational part of it, very much the same way that West Point does for the Army, or that Annapolis does for the Navy.

CompuServe began offering electronic mail capabilities and technical support to commercial customers in 1978 under the name Infoplex, and was also a pioneer in the real-time chat market with its CB Simulator service introduced in 1980.

The Great Western Steamship Company, which had opened its pioneer Bristol – New York service earlier that year, bid £ 45, 000 for a monthly Bristol – Halifax – New York service using three ships of 450 horsepower.

While British American, the other pioneer transatlantic steamship company did not submit a tender, the St. George Steam Packet Company, owner of the Sirius, bid £ 45, 000 for a monthly Cork-Halifax service and £ 65, 000 for a monthly Cork – Halifax – New York service.

The lower half is red for Artillery ; the upper half bears the colors of black and gold, significant of the Orient where the unit had its pioneer service.

The lower half is red for Artillery ; the upper half bears the colors of black and gold, significant of the Orient where the unit had its pioneer service.

Tampa Bay was the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat — the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using a heavier-than-air airplane.

Upon his death in 2010, UNESCO-IHE described him as a " towering figure and pioneer in hydrology " whilst the Chancellor of the NUI, Dr. Maurice Manning, described him as " that rare phenomenon in Irish life, a public intellectual whose life was devoted, without posture, to the public service .” Professor John Sweeney who was one of the scientists as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 described him as " perhaps one of the most important, prolific and distinguished scientists of the past generation.

Demon was the first ISP to pioneer SDU service priced at £ 10 a month plus VAT, described in the sales literature as a " tenner a month ".

The Canadian Pacific Railway was a pioneer in piggyback transport, becoming the first major North American railway to introduce the service in 1952.

A local pioneer of folk song collection in the first half of the 19th century in Lancashire was Shakespearian scholar James Orchard Halliwell, and he was followed a little later by John Harland, William E. Axon, Thomas T. Wilkinson and Sidney Gilpin, who performed a similar service for Cumberland.

Some of the lesser pioneer hostelries were designed primarily to provide meal service for passengers in the Rocky Mountains where railway grades were too severe to justify the operation of dining cars ( see the Big Hill ), although Glacier House and the Sicamous Hotel were destination hotels in their own right.

Founded in 1954, El Torito claims to be " a pioneer in the California full service Mexican casual dining restaurant segment.

In 1947, Charles S. “ Casey ” Jones, a pioneer aviator and aviation company executive, foresaw the need for highly trained technicians to design, build and service aircraft and engines.

Later he received equivalent honours from Denmark and Austria, but in England his work was for many years largely disregarded, despite Mill's acknowledgement of " a dashing piece of pioneer work, useful in training men for later service ".

The Ader was a French automobile designed and built by Clément Ader, a pioneer in flight and telephone service.

It was a pioneer of the electrification of Switzerland's railways, starting electric service in 1910 with 5. 5 kV 25 Hz AC In 1930 SBB normalized the electrification to.

He likewise launched the Dr. Jovito Salonga Center for Law and Development at the Silliman University College of Law to pioneer and develop what the law center calls as Transformative Law – " the study and application of law to transform society, shape policies through advocacy, legal education, research, training, and service learning ".

Others before him included the late Job Isaac Mwamto, Amina Fakhii, Khadija Ali, and the late Stephen Kikumu, who was one of the forefront pioneer broadcasters. In the English service prominent broadcasters who pioneered the service were Hassan Mazoa, Sammy Lui, followed later by the likes of Peter Njoroge, Elizabeth Omolo and in the prime hey days of the service in the 70s were Abdulhaq and George Opiyo.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

But it is also true that Braque was the consistent pioneer in the use of simulated textures as well as of typography ; ;

Kerosene was very effective in ridding pioneer homes of the pests.

Another frequent pioneer difficulty, caused by wearing rough and heavy shoes and boots, was corns.

She was apparently the pioneer in her family because she had no close relatives in this country at that time.

Benjamin Lundy ( 1789-1839 ), a Quaker, was a pioneer in preparing the way for anti-slavery societies.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

He developed new techniques in vascular sutures and was a pioneer in transplantology and thoracic surgery.

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

Altdorfer was the pioneer painter of pure landscape, making them the subject of the painting, as well as compositions dominated by their landscape.

) He was an outspoken pioneer in favor of diversifying the NCS by admitting women cartoonists.

This was hip-hop pioneer KRS-One's inspiration for his thought provoking group BDP, or Boogie Down Productions, which included DJ Scott La Rock.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

Costa Rica was a pioneer in this type of tourism and the country is recognized as one of the few with real ecotourism.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the " northern realism " of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.

Major John Hall-Edwards, a keen photographer and pioneer of medical X-ray treatments in Britain, was a particularly vigorous critic:

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.