A major breakthrough in bridge technology came with the erection of the Iron Bridge in Coalbrookdale, England in 1779.

The foursome's breakthrough came with winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with " Waterloo " on 6 April 1974.

Bombardier's technological breakthrough in the design of bush vehicles came in the mid-1930s when he developed a drive system that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions.

Hydro-metallurgical, and magnetic separation methods were also tried, but the main breakthrough came in 1902 when Delprat and Potter independently devised processes that would eventually be patented as the Delprat-Potter method.

Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon.

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.

His breakthrough came in 1993 when he got a gig at the Renaissance Club in Mansfield after fellow DJ Alexander Coe ( aka Sasha ) heard his demo.

The band's American breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, " Virtual Insanity " and " Cosmic Girl ".

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.

Later that same year, her Swedish breakthrough came with the single " Do You Really Want Me ( Show Respect )".

Robyn's US breakthrough came in 1997, when the dance-pop singles " Show Me Love " and " Do You Know ( What It Takes )" reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.

The next important research breakthrough came from Turner Whitted in 1979.

His breakthrough came from the insights of Professor Leonard Gale, who taught chemistry at New York University ( a personal friend of Joseph Henry ).

The band's breakthrough came in 1982 with the release of the single " Party Fears Two ".

The breakthrough came when a scientific description of the inoculation operation was submitted to the Royal Society in 1724 by Dr Emmanual Timoni, who had been the Montagu's family physician in Istanbul.

The breakthrough year for arabidopsis as the preferred model plant came in 1986, when T-DNA-mediated transformation was first published, and this coincided with the first gene to be cloned and published in Arabidopsis.

His first major breakthrough came in 1912 at age eighteen with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature.

Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.

Zeffirelli's major breakthrough came the year after when he presented two teenagers as Romeo and Juliet, the perfect venue for 1968.

The breakthrough came soon after when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, having explored as far as the Fish River ( Rio do Infante ) in modern-day South Africa and having verified that the unknown coast stretched away to the northeast.

Tracy's breakthrough came in 1930, when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood.

His ' breakthrough ' came in 1616, with the life-size group portrait, The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company.

The breakthrough came in February 1997 when the satellite BeppoSAX detected a gamma-ray burst ( GRB 970228 ) and when the X-ray camera was pointed towards the direction from which the burst had originated, it detected fading X-ray emission.

However, the breakthrough came in 1856 when the Declaration of Paris, signed by all major European powers, stated that " Privateering is and remains abolished ".

1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

Schultz ' breakthrough role was the mentally unstable Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on The A-Team.

It went on to provide a breakthrough for some of the city's most famous writers, such as Synge, Yeats himself and George Bernard Shaw.

Kelly's first career breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life, which opened on October 25, 1939, where for the first time on Broadway he danced to his own choreography.

He achieved his breakthrough as a dancer on film when MGM loaned him out to Columbia to work with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl ( 1944 ), where he created a memorable routine dancing to his own reflection.

After the year's previous success, King had Brown sign a new recording contract and in June 1965, released " Papa's Got a Brand New Bag ", which became his breakthrough hit single, becoming his first # 1 single on the R & B chart since " Try Me " and his first Top 10 pop single winning Brown his first Grammy.

* Heritage Moment on Jackie Robinson about his breakthrough with the Montreal Royals

The work of David J. Asher, Armagh Observatory and Robert H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory and independently by Esko Lyytinen in 1999, following on from the Kazan research, is considered by most meteor experts as the breakthrough in modern analysis of meteor storms.

But probably the most important breakthrough was the development of the famous Soviet Katyusha self-propelled multiple rocket launchers which were unarmored trucks with a simple rocket rack on the back, a cheap and crushingly effective weapon.

In 1999, the Come on Over album was remixed for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her producer husband ( Robert John " Mutt " Lange ) were looking for.

It features the breakthrough single " Light My Fire ", extended with an instrumental section mostly omitted on the single release, and the lengthy song " The End " with its Oedipal spoken-word section.

A major breakthrough in the methodology and popularization of volumetric analysis was due to Karl Friedrich Mohr, who redesigned the burette by placing a clamp and a tip at the bottom, and wrote the first textbook on the topic, Lehrbuch der chemisch-analytischen Titrirmethode ( Textbook of analytical-chemical titration methods ), published in 1855.

However, the attacks did reveal a weak point in the fortifications and the combined forces on the inside and the outside almost made a breakthrough.

In 1954, he wrote an article on the history of the H-bomb, which presents his opinion that both men contributed very significantly to the breakthrough.

However barbed wire was defeated by the tank in 1916, as shown by the Allied breakthrough at Amiens through German lines on August 8, 1918.

An earlier error occurred when Enrico Fermi submitted his breakthrough paper on the weak interaction theory of beta decay.

Nivelle planned a three-phase operation: preliminary offensives to pin German reserves by the British at Arras and the French between the Somme and the Oise ; a French breakthrough offensive on the Aisne ; and pursuit and exploitation.

An attack of this nature was not a breakthrough operation ; the German defensive position Flandern I lay 10, 000 – 12, 000 yards behind the front line and would not be attacked on the first day, nonetheless it was more ambitious than Plumer's earlier plan, which had involved an advance of 1, 000 – 1, 750 yards.

Weir's major breakthrough in Australia and internationally was the lush, atmospheric period mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), made with substantial backing from the state-funded South Australian Film Corporation and filmed on location in South Australia and rural Victoria.

In the end it was Pim Fortuyn, the electoral success of the LPF and namely the murder on Fortuyn which led to the definitive breakthrough.