From early beginnings with the invention of the phonograph using purely mechanical techniques, the field has advanced with the invention of electrical recording, the mass production of the 78 record, the magnetic wire recorder followed by the tape recorder, the vinyl LP record.

From an even broader scientific and technological perspective, in the 50-year history of the laser since its first demonstration in 1960, the invention and development of excimer laser lithography has been highlighted as one of the major milestones.

From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most precise timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use.

From an even broader scientific perspective, since the invention of the laser in 1960, the development of excimer laser lithography has been highlighted as one of the major milestones in the 50-year history of the laser.

From its invention until the 14th century, the organ remained the only keyboard instrument.

From around 1750 rifles began to be used by skirmishers ( Frederick the Great raised a Jager unit in 1744, from game-keepers and foresters, armed with rifles ) but the very slow rate of fire of muzzle-loading rifles restricted their use until the invention of the Minié ball.

In her book From A to Biba, Barbara Hulanicki provides an alternative explanation for the invention of the mini skirt.

From all this it is tempting to imagine the invention of the bow: some Mongol warrior, having just used rosin on his equipment, idly stroked his harp or lyre with a rosin-dusted finger and produced a brief continuous sound, which caused him to have an inspiration ; whereupon he seized his bow, restrung it with horsehair, and so on.

" From this general invention principle, the following idea might solve the problem: Taking a high-resolution image of the machined ball.

From the invention of tanks through to the Second World War, tank armour increased in thickness to resist the increasing size and power of anti-tank guns.

From 1937, when the infant BBC television service chose it above Baird's mechanical system, total electronic picture scanning, based on the work of Manfred von Ardenne and the iconoscope invented by Vladimir Zworykin, became increasingly prevalent and Nipkow's invention was no longer essential to further development of television.

From the invention of insurance in the 14th century, insurance rates were based on estimates ( often intuitive ) of the frequencies of the events insured against, which involves an implicit use of a statistical syllogism.

From 1893, Oetker distributed his invention under the brand name Backin, thus laying the basis for the family-owned company, called Oetker-Gruppe.

From the early days of invention there has always been a competitive element in mountainboarding.

From early Indian invention, which allowed cavalrymen to be much more effective in combat ; this innovation later spread to East north and west via the nomadic populations of central Asia and to west by the Avars.

From this perspective, graphene has been known since the invention of X-ray crystallography.

From the start it was difficult to find business partners for his invention.

From 1919 to 1926 he was engaged by the air ministry in aircraft research work at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and gave much time to the invention of a helicopter.

From the outset, the fantasia had the sense of " the play of imaginative invention ", particularly in lute or vihuela composers such as Francesco Canova da Milano and Luis de Milán.

From the birth of hip-hop, when pioneering DJ's began extending breaks on their party records ( which helped inspire break dancing and rap ), to the invention of scratching and beat-juggling vinyl, to its more recent explosion as a musical movement called turntablism, it's a story of unknown underdogs and serious virtuosos who have radically changed the way we hear, play and create music.

From 1980, Ruscha started using an all-caps typeface of his own invention named ” Boy Scout Utility Modern ” in which curved letter forms are squared-off ( as in the Hollywood Sign ) This simple font which is radically different from the style he used in works such as Honk ( 1962 ).

From its invention in the 14th century until quartz movements became available in the 1970s, virtually every portable timekeeping device used some form of balance wheel.

From the invention of the first lock and key to the introduction of RFID tags and biometric identification, anti-theft systems have evolved to match the introduction of new inventions to society and the resulting theft of them by others.

From 1977 to 1997 Beretta built the Browning BDA 380, which is essentially the model 84BB with a standard ejection port ( instead of an open slide ), a slide-mounted decocker / safety and a spur hammer.

From 1778, however, the most important exception was the carronade.

In her later years, companion Cherry Baker, first introduced in The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side, lives in.

From the 980s, Gerbert of Aurillac ( later, Pope Sylvester II ) used his position to spread knowledge of the numerals in Europe.

From the unexpected realism of his first major figure — inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy — to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, Rodin's reputation grew, such that he became the preeminent French sculptor of his time.

From his associations in the house of his uncle, and later as his uncle's disciple and as a member of the academy at Sepphoris, Rav acquired such an extraordinary knowledge of traditional lore as to make him its foremost exponent in his native land.

From 1851 the Monmouthshire Lunatic Asylum, later Pen-y-Fal Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, stood on the outskirts of Abergavenny.

From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.

From the 1930s to the 1960s, archaeologists like V. Gordon Childe and later John Hamilton regarded them as castles where local landowners held sway over a subject population.

From his jobs he learned, he later averred, how eccentric, stubborn and unpredictable men, animals and machines can be.

From 1746, Hume served for three years as secretary to Lieutenant-General St Clair, and wrote Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, later published as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

From this concept later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres.

' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

From pre-dynastic Egypt, daggers were adorned as ceremonial objects with golden hilts and later even more ornate and varied construction.

From India, the ex-king traveled to Europe and settled in Italy, and later in Switzerland.

From these hypotheses predictions about specific events are derived ( e. g., " People who study a word list while listening to vocal music will remember fewer words on a later memory test than people who study a word list in silence .").

From the time he was a boy, Fermi meticulously recorded his calculations in notebooks, and later used them to solve many new problems that he encountered based on these earlier known problems.

From this body of water the island group later took its collective name.

From this point onwards Griffith certainly developed the device much further, gradually increasing the number of alternations between two, and later three, sets of parallel scenes, and also their speed.

From the outset, this new republic held that film would be the most ideal propaganda tool for the Soviet Union because of its widespread popularity among the established citizenry of the new land ; Vladimir Lenin, in fact, declared it the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of Communism, a position which was later echoed by Joseph Stalin.

Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several albums, scoring a Top 40 hit with "( Theme From ) New York, New York " in 1980.

Haiti is known to be the first in the Caribbean with a Railway system in the Urban of Port-au-Prince and later a Project that was supposed to run by The Company Mc Donald from Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haitian, and From Port-au-Prince to Les Cayes it did not completed.

From around 700 BC the Iron age brought numerous hill forts, brochs and fortified settlements which support the image of quarrelsome tribes and petty kingdoms later recorded by the Romans, though evidence that at times occupants neglected the defences might suggest that symbolic power had as much significance as warfare.

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

From his Vila do Infante in 15th Century Portuguese, Estate or Town of the Prince on the Sagres peninsula located at the south-westernmost point of Iberia and with sea access to both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Henry sponsored voyages down the coast of Africa, sailing as far as Guinea, that were primarily exploration expeditions, later on bringing back to the nearby town of Lagos, from whence they set out, numerous African slaves and goods.

From there, they sailed to Kozhikode ( Calicut ), where Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama would land two centuries later.

From 1971 to 1988 ICI Physics and Radioisotopes Section ( later known as Tracerco ) operated a small General Atomics TRIGA Mark I nuclear reactor at its Billingham factory for the production of radioisotopes used in the manufacture of flow and level instruments, among other products.