Some record labels - in an industry suffering a two-year sales slump - hope that the new format can become the modern-day successor to the vinyl 45 single.
The House of Delegates is the modern-day successor to the Virginia House of Burgesses, which first met at Jamestown in 1619.
Surprisingly, I'd also rate Alton Brown as a sort of modern-day successor.
Record labels, fighting a two-year slump, hope that the new format can become the modern-day successor to the vinyl 45 single.
Its role as a small, handpicked force operating with MI6 makes it the modern-day successor to the shadowy cell sometimes referred to as the Increment.
Here the school's modern-day successor has its buildings and playing fields.
It has also been used to hearken back to the Roman republic, particularly by those who see themselves as modern-day successors to the old republic and/or its ideals.
That is one reason the hospital's modern-day successor, New York-Presbyterian, has undertaken a painstaking $1 million restoration of its main building.
Pentacon is the modern-day successor to Dresden camera firms such as Zeiss Ikon, and for many years Dresden was the world's largest producer of cameras.
This spelled the end of the popular Pebble Beach Road Races, although it was the genesis of Laguna Seca, its modern-day successor.