Improvements to instrument design and metal making in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance led to an increased usefulness of the trumpet as a musical instrument.

Improvements in design and machining technology has allowed for major advancements in compressor efficiency, as well as bearing and seal design.

Improvements to the design since then have allowed them to surpass their initial design goals.

Improvements in both the laser system and hohlraum design are expected to improve the energy absorbed by the capsule to about 420 kJ, which, in turn, could generate up to 100-150 MJ of fusion energy.

Improvements in crampon design ( pioneered by Eckenstein in 1908 ) and ice climbing technique led to use of shorter, lighter ice axes appropriate to steeper ice climbs in the period between the world wars.

Improvements in the design of protective athletic gear such as helmets may decrease the number and severity of such injuries.

Improvements in the azimuth bearing material and design can minimize the problem, but not eliminate it.

Improvements in the epitaxial growth, processing, device design, and packaging led to individual large-aperture VCSELs emitting several hundreds of milliwatts by 1998.

Improvements to the engine included a new camshaft and valve springs, and twin SU 2 " HD8 carburetors, together with a new design of exhaust system.

* Improvements in mathematical modeling of surfaces, allowing greater design control

Improvements in hardware and system design can be used to significantly reduce the risks of any encryption system being compromised, but many systems once thought secure have been proven vulnerable to sufficiently sophisticated and malicious attackers.

Improvements continued to the basic Elite design ; this included rear lighting, rear emergency door and subtle changes to the front grill.

Improvements in tool design have been shown to cause substantial improvements in productivity and quality.

Improvements in this fixture include improved optics, 360 degree barrel rotation, a specialized yoke design allowing for rapid tool-free short yoking, a quick change lamp and improved heat dissipation technology and design integration.

Improvements in the design of the G7e / T2 were incorporated into the production of the next model of electric torpedo for Germany's U-boat fleet.

Improvements to the codec in the form of ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless followed in 1999, 2002, and 2006 respectively.

Improvements to the channels which form a central feature of the Olympic Park have included the largest aquatic planting scheme ever carried out in Britain.

Improvements in software and hardware, and rapidly lowering costs, popularized desktop publishing and enabled very fine control of typeset results much less expensively than the minicomputer dedicated systems.

Improvements in transport brought about by the industrial revolution enabled people to take vacations away from home, and led to the growth of coastal towns as seaside resorts.

Improvements in pipelining and caching are the two major microarchitectural advances that have enabled processor performance to keep pace with the circuit technology on which they are based.

Improvements took place in the 1960s which tied in with the development of the Ord Irrigation Scheme, which enabled the introduction of road trains.

Improvements include continuously variable valve timing, variable intake system, silent timing chain, hollow and lighter camshafts and friction reduction ( microfinished surfaces, moly coated pistons ).

Improvements include an optional ULEV-II compliant 381 horsepower 5. 7 L 3UR-FE V8, mated to a 6-speed automatic.

US Patent Office application No 582485 states that they have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Exhaust-Mufflers for engines ....

Improvements were subsequently made to the draughting on some engines, while others were fitted with hopper ashpans.

** Improvements to cooling in exhaust side at cylinder heads, steering rack, power steering pump, soundproofing, front cooling flaps deleted, new style shift knob with integrated leather booth in manual gearbox cars, etc.

Improvements that followed in 1909 were electric lights and power and the Woodgate Telephone Company.

Improvements included increased power and resistance to electronic jamming.

Improvements were higher clock rates ( up to 2 GHz ), a larger 1 MB L2 cache, a faster 200 MHz front side bus, and lower power consumption ( 18 W at 1. 7 GHz ).

* Improvements in obtaining and applying motive power

Improvements initially were lower power consumption, due to the newer process it was fabricated in.

Improvements in the ability to train horses soon allowed them to be used to pull chariots, possibly as early as 2100 BC, and their greater speed and power made chariots even more efficient.

# Improvements to the Operations Training Centre starting with the hiring of an accredited adult training specialist.

Improvements from Hexen and Quake included destructible environments, mounted weapons, and unique level up abilities.

* Improvements in invalidity and old-age pension provision for the unemployed, who ( from 1977 onwards ) were technically insured free of charge under the old-age pension and invalidity scheme.

Improvements to playable characters in the game included the ability to move bodies, knock out enemies, handle explosives, and allowing all characters to drive vehicles and use collected weapons ( paving the way for the Driver's expulsion from the series in the next installment ).

Alabama Reading Test Results Show Overall Improvements from 2004 to 2005, but School System Results Vary.

Improvements were also made to sanitation ; in the 18th century more people died from gaol fever that by hanging.

In the 1870s water abstraction from the canal near Fobney Lock followed the regulations introduced in the Reading Local Board Waterworks, Sewerage, Drainage and Improvements Act of 1870, and contributed to the silting up of locks and stretches of the canal.

Improvements in the way joints in the wetsuit were made by gluing, taping and blindstitching, helped the suit to remain waterproof and reduce flushing, the replacement of water trapped between suit and body by cold water from the outside.

Improvements in indoor levels of CO are systematically improving from increasing implementation of smoke-free laws.

The United States district court imposed various requirements regarding the companies ' operations in a consent decree resulting from an antitrust inquiry by the United States Department of Justice under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act in connection with Thomson's purchase of West Publishing, and West's and Lexis's settlement of various outstanding claims in that proceeding.

: Improvements in Apparatus for Obtaining Motive Power from Fluids and also for Raising or Forcing Fluids.

Improvements to water quality through Barnsley highlighted the fact that fish populations did not exist below the discharge from the Lundwood sewage treatment works to the east of Barnsley.

Improvements in powerloom efficiency meant that weaving, which had been the primary source of wealth and income for handloom weavers, began to transfer from the cottage to the factory.

Improvements were made to the river from 1424, with tolls being levied to compensate the landowners, and in 1571, there were riots after the extension of the River was promoted in a private bill presented to the House of Commons.

Improvements to the line carried out at the time of the transfer to the Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad, and the use of the MR's better quality rolling stock, reduced the journey time from Brill to Quainton Road to between 32 and 36 minutes.

Improvements continued in 1822 when the 12th lord Narinaga created the garden's winding streams with water drawn from the Tatsumi Waterway.

Improvements to the Oxley and Pacific Highway has seen steady improvements in travel times between Sydney and the mid-north coast region from 6 hours to just 4 hours ( from Wahroonga to the Oxley Highway interchange );

Vaughan had bought Holker Street from Barrow AFC, transferring ownership to his company Northern Improvements.

Improvements were made from time to time, resulting in reductions in losses of metals, but none of the apparatus in use on the Comstock was perfect.

Improvements to date have included woodland sculptures, clearing and new planting of shrubs and trees and the planting of narcissi with much volunteer involvement from local schools and residents.

On advice, he patented his invention in January 1901 as " Improvements in Toy or Educational Devices for Children and Young People ", but not without first having to borrow five pounds from his employer, David Elliot, to cover the costs.

Arthur Krebs proposed placing the front axle of a car at a positive caster angle in his UK patent of 1896, entitled Improvements in mechanically propelled vehicles, stating it was intended " To ensure stability of direction by means of a special arrangement of fore-carriage, that is to say, to re-establish automatically the parallelism of the two axles of the vehicle when there is no tendency to keep them in any other direction, or after a temporary effort has caused them to diverge from said parallelism.

Improvements to the Welland Canal in 1919 are thought to have allowed its spread from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, and while it was never abundant in either lake, it soon spread to Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior, where it decimated indigenous fish populations in the 1930s and 1940s.