An early uncommon means of boat propulsion was referred to as the water caterpillar which is similar in construction to paddles on a conveyor belt and preceded the development of tracked vehicles such as military tanks and earth moving equipment.

In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through trolley poles by overhead wires, which actually preceded, and in many urban areas outnumbered, the conventional engine powered bus.

In Europe, particularly Britain and Ireland, and then in the young United States and the Canadian colonies, inland canals preceded the development of railroads ( 1780-1840 ) during the earliest phase of the Industrial Revolution.

But the then-province of Eritrea was the second highest recipient of Ethiopia's budget and development, only preceded by the province of Shewa.

The mission of the Alliance originates from the first and eight UN Millennium Development Goals ; reducing the number of people that suffer from hunger in half by 2015 ( preceded by the “ Rome Declaration ” in 1996 ) and developing a global partnership for development.

Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway and Charleston.

" Indeed, the nearly fifty years of Greek history that preceded the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War had been marked by the development of Athens as a major power in the Mediterranean world.

The tachi style of swords preceded the development of the katana.

Full-scale land-based prototype plants in Idaho, New York, and Connecticut preceded development of several types ( generations ) of US Naval nuclear reactors, although not all of them.

The development of printing was preceded by the use of cylinder seals in Mesopotamia developed in 3500 B. C., and other related stamp seals.

This preceded the development of oral isotretinoin ( sold as Accutane and Roaccutane ) in 1980.

In Europe, particularly Britain and Ireland, and then in the early US and the Canadian colonies, inland canals preceded the development of railroads during the earliest phase of the Industrial Revolution.

Besides those already mentioned it is sufficient to refer to his New Testament Introduction ( the first edition, 1750, preceded the full development of his powers, and is a very different book from the later editions ), his reprint of Robert Lowth's Praelectiones with important additions ( 1758 – 1762 ), his German translation of the Bible with notes ( 1773 – 1792 ), his Orientalische und exegetische Bibliothek ( 1775 – 1785 ) and Neue O. und E. Bib.

A similar development to a circumfix from double negation can be seen in non-Indo-European languages, too: for example, in Maltese, kiel " he ate " is negated as ma kielx " he didn't eat ", where the verb is preceded by a negative particle ma-" not " and followed by the particle-x, which was originally a shortened form of xejn " nothing "-thus, " he didn't eat nothing ".

The cultural development of the people of Lanna, the Tai Yuan people, had begun long before as successive Tai Yuan kingdoms preceded Lanna.

( There is evidence that Swedenborg may have preceded Kant by 20 years in the development of this hypothesis.

The idea that protoplasm is divisible into a ground substance called " cytoplasm " and a structural body called the cell nucleus reflects the more primitive knowledge of cell structure that preceded the development of electron microscopy, when it seemed that cytoplasm was a homogeneous fluid and the existence of most sub-cellular compartments, or how cells maintain their shape, was unknown.

This " visual storytelling " directly preceded the development of the first moving pictures.

Rahner's development of the idea preceded the Council, and became more insistent after it received its dogmatic formulation.

Although the rifle was unique to its role, it was a development of the Mauser rifles and high-powered British sporting rifles that had preceded it.

Since in most of Upper Canada this surveying preceded urban development, most Ontario municipalities have grid patterns of streets.

The reference indicates the large swampy area that preceded the later development of Chinese market gardens in this area.

Also referred to as Shuttles, their introduction preceded the development of the Space Shuttle.

Recitative thus preceded the development of arias, though it soon became the custom to include separate songs and instrumental interludes during periods when voices were silent.

Another significant related point is that the Langlands approach stands apart from the whole development triggered by monstrous moonshine ( connections between elliptic modular functions as Fourier series, and the group representations of the Monster group and other sporadic groups ).

* There is a Deligne – Langlands conjecture of historical importance in relation with the development of the Langlands philosophy.

Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

Then a full-time planning office will be established in Rome to work with a five-member Georgia Tech research staff for development of an area planning and industrial development program.

Neither growth nor a development program can be imposed on a country ; ;

Nevertheless, we can administer an aid program in such a manner as to promote the development of responsible programing.

At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.

It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.

Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

A comprehensive program devoted to the various phases of the development effort attracted 143 interested individuals.

Workshop sessions in the afternoon featured development executives from Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maine, and rounded out a rewarding program.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

This will include a stepped-up program of training and development of personnel.

Our research and development program, serving as it does an industry which must compete against low-cost production throughout the world, continues to have primary emphasis at Leesona.

Carleton aims throughout its entire teaching program to represent a point of view and a spirit which will contribute to the moral and religious development of its students.

The physical education program for men recognizes the value of participation in competitive sports in the development of the individual student and aims to give every man an opportunity to enter some form of athletic competition, either intercollegiate or intramural.

Is your R & D or product development program tuned in to the commercial realities of the market??

The shooting development program of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute has successfully published these facts in all major outdoor magazines, many national weeklies and the trade papers.

This has been the aim of the director of the shooting development program, the New York staff of the Sportsmen's Service Bureau, and the SAAMI shooting preserve field consultants since the start of the program in 1954.

Following the kick-off of SAAMI's shooting development program in 1954, a most interesting meeting took place in Washington, D.C..

Personnel assigned through the shooting development program have proudly participated in over 53 state and regional workshops, at which hundreds of school administrators, teachers, professors, and recreational leaders have been introduced to Outdoor Education.

In 1959 SAAMI's shooting development program announced a new activity designed to expose thousands of teen-age boys and girls to the healthy fun enjoyed through the participation in the shooting sports.

Through the efforts of SAAMI's shooting development program these shooting activities, and many others, including assists in the development of public and privately financed shooting parks, trap and skeet leagues, rifle and pistol marksmanship programs have been promoted, to mention only a few.