However, when the price of silver rose, the East India Company began to manufacture a product that was desired by the Chinese as much as tea was by the British: opium.

In 1914 The Erfurt Company JA Topf & Sons began the manufacture of crematoria later becoming the market leader in this industry.

In the later part of the 18th century the manual labour based economy of the Kingdom of Great Britain began to be replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery.

In 1926 Krupp began the manufacture of Widia (“ Wie Diamant ”) cobalt-tungsten carbide.

In the 1980s, Lyon & Healy also began to manufacture electroacoustic harps as well as solid body electric harps in later years.

Dissatisfaction with what John Dopyera felt was mismanagement led him to resign from National in January 1929, and he subsequently formed the Dobro Manufacturing Corporation, later called Dobro Corporation, Ltd, and began to manufacture his own line of resonator-equipped instruments ( dobros ).

In the summer of 1932, Ro-Pat-In began to manufacture cast aluminum production versions of the Frying Pan as well as a lesser number of standard Spanish Electrics built from wooden bodies similar to those made in Chicago for the National Company.

During the 1960s, South Korea was largely dependent on the United States to supply its armed forces, but after the elaboration of President Richard M. Nixon's policy of Vietnamization in the early 1970s, South Korea began to manufacture many of its own weapons.

Single-shot rifles co-existed for some time with the lever action rifle, but they began to fade out of manufacture with the advent of reliable bolt action rifles.

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Later, they began leasing jukeboxes and they eventually started to manufacture their own.

In 1868 Vickers began to manufacture marine shafts, in 1872 they began casting marine propellers and in 1882 they set up a forging press.

Morris began to adopt Ruskin's philosophy of rejecting the tawdry industrial manufacture of decorative arts and architecture in favour of a return to hand-craftsmanship, raising artisans to the status of artists, creating art that should be affordable and hand-made, with no hierarchy of artistic mediums.

From the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath, and using a, ( f / 13 ) Newtonian telescope " with a most capital speculum " of his own manufacture, in October 1779, Herschel began a systematic search for such stars among " every star in the Heavens ", with new discoveries listed through 1792.

He erected steelworks in Sheffield in a business partnership with others, such as W & J Galloway & Sons, and began to manufacture steel.

In 1880 George Eastman began to manufacture gelatin dry photographic plates in Rochester, New York.

Rather than import manufactured goods from the empire's great urban areas, they began to manufacture many goods locally, often on their own estates, thus beginning the self-sufficient " house economy " that would become commonplace in later centuries, reaching its final form in the Middle Ages ' manorialism.

Finding denim a more suitable material for work-pants, they began using it to manufacture their riveted pants.

The introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution began a process of socioeconomic transformation in Carlisle, which developed into a densely populated mill town.

World War I caused a shortage of calcium citrate that Pfizer imported from Italy for the manufacture of citric acid, and the company began a search for an alternative supply.

Hirst's shrewd investment in lamp manufacture was proving extremely profitable and in 1909 Osram began production of the most successful tungsten filament lamps in the industry.

After Daimler Benz took over manufacture of the Unimog in 1951, ( Unimog 2010 ) the three pointed Mercedes star began to appear on the front of the vehicle and replaced the Unimog ox horn symbol.

The company began as the National Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, which was established to manufacture and sell the first mechanical cash register, invented in 1879 by James Ritty.

According to Barr ( 1961 ), Dicky Mathews began the manufacture of gunpowder at the cave in 1859.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

Countries began to develop weapons which were much more effective, and much less likely to cause infection to the wrong party.

It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.

Based on the combat experience of World War II, the criteria used for selecting infantry weapons began to change.

From the 1550s onwards, the use of gunpowder weapons solidified infantry's dominance of the battlefield and began to allow true mass armies to develop.

The Finnish Civil War would probably have started at that point had there been enough weapons in the country to arm the two sides ; instead, there began a race for weapons and a final escalation towards war.

In the centuries following the Chinese discovery, gunpowder weapons began appearing in the Arab world, Europe, and India.

In Madeira, he also began collecting weapons, many of which were remnants from the Napoleonic Wars, displaying them on the wall of his hotel room.

The successful development of the Soviet nuclear program enabled the country to become the world's second nuclear weapons power ; the later Soviet space program began as a spin-off of the nuclear project.

Longbows remained in use until around the 16th century, when advances in firearms made gunpowder weapons a significant factor in warfare and such units as arquebusiers and grenadiers began appearing.

In the meantime, the Afghan military began seeking latest fighter aircraft and other advanced weapons.

In the meantime, the Afghan military began seeking latest fighter aircraft and other advanced weapons.

The Bawihka later intermarried with runaway slaves from Britain's Caribbean possessions, and the resulting population, with its access to superior weapons, began to expand its territory and push other indigenous groups into the interior.

Using the castles that remained in English control he gradually began to retake Wales while cutting off trade and the supply of weapons.

In 2375, one year after Proconsul Neral became praetor, the Romulans established a presence on Deep Space Nine and secretly began stockpiling weapons on a Bajoran moon.

The party began with a " Grand Tournament " in which the participants wore motorcycle helmets, fencing masks, and usually some semblance of a costume, and whacked away at each other with weapons including plywood swords, padded maces, and even a fencing foil.

Spears began to lose fashion among the infantry during the 14th century, being replaced by pole weapons that combined the thrusting properties of the spear with the cutting properties of the axe, such as the halberd.

Medieval Japan employed spears for infantrymen to use, but it was not until the 11th century in Japan that samurai began to use spears over bows. Several spears ( Yari ) and pole weapons were very fearsome in the Japanese theatres ; the naginata was a heavy, but powerful pole arm often used by mounted samurai in the 16th century.

In November of that year, the Green March into Western Sahara began when 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans accompanied by the Moroccan Army armed with heavy weapons as SAM and others converged on the southern city of Tarfaya and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

Very simple weapon use has been observed among chimpanzees, leading to speculation that early hominids began their first use of weapons as early as five million years ago.

At the same time, he became an Arab nationalist and began procuring weapons to be smuggled into the former British Mandate of Palestine, for use by irregulars in the Arab Higher Committee and the Army of the Holy War militias.

Enriched uranium was first manufactured in the early 1940s when the United States began its nuclear weapons program.

Later in the decade, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union began their nuclear weapons and nuclear power programs.