Sentence examples for saw the first use from inspiring English sources

The Arawe operation also saw the first use of another innovation of Barbey's, the landing craft control officers.

The final phase of the battle of the Somme saw the first use of the tank on the battlefield.

The tour also saw the first use of the All Blacks name and established New Zealand's reputation as a world class rugby nation.

During the 1897 fleet gunnery trials, which saw the first use of a new system of centralized fire control in the French fleet, Marceau, her sister Neptune, and the new battleship Brennus all achieved more than 25 percent hits at ranges of between 3000 yards and 4000 yards.

The First Battle of Bull Run would also see the first use of a system of semaphore flags to send the equivalent of a Morse code, to transmit complex information across miles; one such message played a critical role in the battle, alerting the Confederates to a surprise Union maneuver.

Now we are seeing the first uses for ARM-powered architectures on servers to power cloud environments.

This dynasty also saw the first known use of gunpowder, as well as the first discernment of true north using a compass.

IT was 4 a.m. on a recent Saturday morning when Monica Giordano, looking from the window of her bakery on Heller Parkway, saw the first riders use the Newark subway system's new Silver Lake station.

"Puzzlingly, there is no military history of the first opium war," he says, "although it saw the first major use of steam-powered warships which revolutionised naval warfare forever.

The First World War in the Dolomites saw the first widespread use of via ferrata – a system of fixed ladders and ropes built into the rock – to aid the movement of troops.

With various refinements, the early modern fortress, based on a combination of the sunken profile and bastioned trace, remained the basic form of permanent fortification until the American Civil War, which saw the first extensive use of heavy rifled cannon made of high-quality cast iron.