Although these early hand-held calculators were very expensive, these advances in electronics, together with developments in display technology ( such as the vacuum fluorescent display, LED, and LCD ), lead within a few years to the cheap pocket calculator available to all.

Although Babbage's design was technically feasible, no one had built a mechanical device to such exacting standards before, so the engine proved to be much more expensive than anticipated.

Although extractor ventilation fans should have been installed to reduce the concentration of methane in the air, this would have been expensive for mine owners, and thus such fans were not installed.

Although sunlight is free and abundant, solar electricity is still usually more expensive to produce than large-scale mechanically generated power due to the cost of the panels.

Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

Although silk was a somewhat expensive medium to paint upon in the past, the invention of paper during the 1st century AD by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun provided not only a cheap and widespread medium for writing, but also a cheap and widespread medium for painting ( making it more accessible to the public ).

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Although he had an eclectic mix of supporters, Kemp's campaign began borrowing against anticipated Federal matching funds because it had quickly spent itself into the red, which may have been due to the use of expensive direct mail fundraising techniques.

Although not portable and often expensive, the piano's versatility and ubiquity have made it one of the world's most familiar musical instruments.

Although these agreements changed during the 1980s and beyond, it is still expensive to repeat archive television series on British terrestrial television, as new contracts have to be drawn up and payments made to the artists concerned.

Although many manufacturers licensed the design, including Citroën with their M35 and GS Birotor, using engines produced by Comotor, General Motors, which seems to have concluded that the Wankel engine was slightly more expensive to build than an equivalent reciprocating engine, although claiming having solved the fuel economy issue, but failed in obtaining acceptable exhaust emissions, and Mercedes-Benz which used it for their C111 concept car, only Mazda has produced Wankel engines in large numbers.

Although the results were impressive the system was expensive, cumbersome and had some serious shortcomings due to the need to match-up three separate projected images.

Although it was innovative, the Star was an expensive () system that was purchased by only a few businesses and institutions.

Although food is more expensive there than at the mainland ( mostly due to the cost of shipping ) other things like vehicles, tobacco and alcohol are significantly cheaper because of the absence of taxes.

Although the 405 remained in production, it was an expensive machine to build.

Although SCSI interfaces soon became available for PCs, they were comparatively expensive and tended to be limited by the speed of the PC's ISA peripheral bus ( although SCSI did become standard on the Apple Macintosh ).

Although they believed that the game was too expensive, they summarized it as " a highly enjoyable graphic adventure replete with interesting puzzles, a fantastic Roland soundtrack, superb VGA graphics, smooth-scrolling animation, and some of the funniest lines ever seen on your computer screen.

Although most Delft Blue borrows from the tin-glaze tradition, it is nearly all decorated in underglaze blue on a white clay body and very little uses tin glaze, a more expensive product.

Although rather expensive to purchase, the kits and radio systems sold rapidly.

Although the Yellowstone Expedition was an ultimate failure and expensive to the U. S. Treasury, the Johnsons escaped political ill will in their home district because the venture was seen as a peacekeeping endeavor on the frontier.

Although Quadruplex videotape recording technology was utilised in the UK from 1958, this system was expensive and complex ; recorded programmes were often erased after broadcast.

Although the corporation upgraded the route in 1827, the road was still very tough to travel for passengers and people hauling expensive goods.

Although Moore ’ s lamp was complicated, expensive to install, and required very high voltages, it was considerably more efficient than incandescent lamps, and it produced a more natural light than incandescent lamps.

Although iron is quite abundant, good quality steel remained rare and expensive until the industrial developments of Bessemer process et al.

The question of her legitimacy was a key concern: Although she was technically illegitimate under both Protestant and Catholic law, her retroactively declared illegitimacy under the English church was not a serious bar compared to having never been legitimate as the Catholics claimed she was.

" Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust ," Godwin has written.

Although early writers compared llamas to sheep, their similarity to the camel was soon recognized.

Although keeping up with the pace and difficulty of MIT coursework has been compared to " drinking from a fire hose ", the freshmen retention rate at MIT is similar to that at other national research universities.

Although this means fewer clock cycles per instruction compared to the Z80, for instance, the latter's higher resolution state machine allowed clock frequencies 3-5 times as high without demanding faster memory chips, which was often the limiting factor.

Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements of the works.

Although he has been compared to the Jacobin Maximilien de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), Francia's policies and ideals perhaps most closely resembled those of François-Noël Babeuf ( 1760 – 1797 ), the French utopian who wanted to abolish private property and communalize land as a prelude to founding a " republic of equals ".

Although the county was still below the " pass " threshold, the report demonstrated substantial improvement compared to previous decades on every measure of air quality.

Although the population of northern Norway is sparse compared to southern Europe, the spread of the disease was just as rapid.

Although this would seem the most impressive phase of work, Stonehenge 3 IV was rather shabbily built compared to its immediate predecessors, as the newly re-installed bluestones were not well-founded and began to fall over.

Although reviewers including IGN and GameSpot felt that the single player gameplay was lacking compared to its predecessor, the simultaneous four-person multiplexer modes – a first for the Nintendo 64 – were praised.

Although there are doctrinal and technical differences between sparring in the two main styles and among the various organizations, the art in general emphasizes kicks thrown from a mobile stance, employing the leg's greater reach and power ( compared to the arm ).

Although the country is the most beautiful they have ever seen, every feature of the landscape ( including streams of water and blades of grass ) is unyieldingly solid compared to themselves: it causes them immense pain to walk on the grass, and even a single leaf is far too heavy for any to lift.

Although by the mid-1960s Canberras and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm were able to deliver nuclear weapons, their carrying power was insignificant compared to the 180 Victor and Vulcan bombers.

Although the Allies defeated the French, they lost over twenty thousand men, compared with only ten thousand for their opponents.

Although the money he was paid is " small beer " compared with 21st-century sports stars, there is no doubt he had a comfortable living out of cricket and made far more money than any contemporary professional.

* Racism: Although this was not initially the case, Professor X has come to be compared to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and Magneto to the more militant Malcolm X.

Although the size of shield would vary due to personal preference and role, most were thin compared to common belief ( a misconception aided by the depiction of heavy shields in films ).

Although the birefringence Δn may vary slightly due to dispersion, this is negligible compared to the variation in phase difference according to the wavelength of the light due to the fixed path difference ( λ < sub > 0 </ sub > in the denominator in the above equation ).

Although stingray teeth are rare on sea bottoms compared to the similar shark teeth, scuba divers searching for the latter do encounter the teeth of stingrays.

Although integrated software existed for these computers, they usually lacked features compared to their standalone equivalents, largely due to memory limitations.

Although a few geologists have argued that it is possibly related to a Precambrian extraterrestrial impact and have compared it to Mare Crisium on the Moon, no credible evidence for such an impact crater has been found by regional magnetic, Bouguer gravity, and geologic studies.

Although they have a different flavor, aroma, and texture when compared to brewed soy sauces, they have a longer shelf-life and are more commonly produced for this reason.

Although the Tories were re-elected in 1988 campaigning on free trade, they won with only 43 % of the popular vote, compared to 56 % of the vote which went to the Liberals and the New Democratic Party who campaigned mostly against the agreement.