* GB patent 868, 753 – Improvements in or relating to Calculating Machines – Norbert Kitz, Robert Milburn, Christopher Webb: Bell Punch Company Ltd., 1961 ( first application Sept. 6, 1956, filed Sept. 6, 1957 ),-Electronically controlled key operated office desk type calculating machine capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Improvements in feeder technology mean that tape format is becoming the preferred method of presenting parts on an SMT machine.

Improvements made to Little Sodus Bay in the early 19th Century, allowed the town to have port facilities.

Improvements in electronics allowed the GPS system to effectively take several fixes at once, greatly reducing the complexity of deducing a position.

Improvements in quality and economy, and the invention of the flying erase-head, allowed new video and audio material to be recorded over the material already recorded on an existing magnetic tape and was introduced into the linear editing technique.

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 micro-oxygenation have allowed winemakers to better mimic the gentle aeration of oak barrels in stainless steel tanks with oak chips.

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 in spring 1944 led to newer SN-2 versions with lower minimum range, which allowed the older UHF radar system to be removed entirely.

Improvements by Swanage Railway to the track between Norden and Wareham have continued, and together with the permanent ground frame arrangements at Motala have allowed the planning and operation of special railtour services for the first time since 1972.

Improvements in hardware have allowed them to be replaced with outline or stroke fonts in cases where arbitrary scaling is desirable, but bitmap fonts are still in common use in embedded systems and other places where speed and simplicity are considered important.

Improvements followed which allowed production of one locomotive per week.

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.

Improvements to the road have allowed the entire Baltimore Beltway to be signed as I-695, even though all of I-695 between the junction of I-95 northeast of Baltimore and I-97 is officially considered MD 695 by the MDSHA.

Improvements to the communication and transport infrastructures in Nepal allowed the game to expand outside Kathmandu in the 1980s and Nepal became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 1988.

Improvements in warhead miniaturization in the 1970s and 1980s allowed for the development of MIRVs — missiles which could carry multiple warheads, each of which could be separately targetable.

Improvements to surgical techniques, along with refinements of the indications, have allowed van Wagenen ’ s procedure to endure ; corpus callosotomy is still commonly performed throughout the world.

Improvements in process work and machinery at the end of the 1880s allowed Luson Thomas to realize a long cherished project, a daily illustrated paper.

Improvements since then have largely been better phosphors, longer life, and more consistent internal discharge, and easier-to-use shapes ( such as compact fluorescent lamps ).

Improvements in tubing and vacuum pumps, new filtering techniques, " supercharged " preheaters, and better storage containers have since been developed.

Improvements in algorithms lead many modern low cost GPS receivers to achieve better than 10 meter accuracy, which implies a timing accuracy of about 30 ns.

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 were made with 6. 6 % better fuel economy, and nearly 2 decibel ( dB ) less noise ( again vs. the air-cooled version ).

Improvements in the road and highway systems provided better and more rapid means of transportation during the 1920s and 1930s.

Improvements include better navigation system, better targeting system, more payload, longer range, faster lift-off, longer storage time, quicker launch, and lower detection possibility.

Improvements include the use of purer grades of manganese dioxide, better sealing, and purer zinc for the negative electrode.

Improvements desperately needed include code and protocol clean ups, better enterprise management support, operational documentation, and simpler integration with the supporting openMosix distributions ( Quantian and ClusterKnoppix ).

Improvements that organizations can make include adequately planning their structure and allocating adequate resources, providing training, creating forums for discussion, setting measurable targets and working according to the philosophy of continuous improvement ( Burden, 2010 ).

Improvements on this followed developments in metallurgy ; steel coulters and shares with softer iron mouldboards to prevent breakage, the chilled plough which is an early example of surface-hardened steel, and eventually the face of the mouldboard grew strong enough to dispense with the coulter.

Improvements included replacing the fencing with a brick and wrought iron fence as well as the construction of new entrances and ticket booths at the west entry.

Improvements in armor over the centuries led to the establishment of plate armor by the 14th century, which was further developed more rigorously in the 15th century.

Improvements to the balance spring are responsible for further large increases in accuracy since that time.

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 the regional transportation network and the economic growth of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area, and Mount Holly's strategic location between Charlotte and Gastonia, have created conditions for an expanding population in recent years.

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

Improvements in transport and a growth in prosperity led to more semi-detached and terraced houses in the area immediately surrounding the railway station.

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.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Improvements in transportation and the sudden evolving of trench warfare, with its siege-like nature during World War I in the 20th century, lengthened the duration of battles to days and weeks.

# Improvements in the drug discovery and approval process.

Improvements to the woodlands, gardens and estate buildings were also being made, assisted by the landscape gardener James Beattie and the painter James Giles.

Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance “ between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.

Improvements in infrastructure and the regional economy notwithstanding, the three provinces remain one of the poorer regions of Canada.

Lancaster promoted his system in a piece called Improvements in Education that spread widely throughout the English-speaking world.

Capital budgets are often adjusted annually and should be part of a longer-term Capital Improvements Plan.

Improvements were remarkably consistent across the whole period, in both countries.

Improvements to Reeves Stadium and the construction of a campus entrance and pedestrian mall were completed in time for the fall semester in 2009.

Improvements and updates to the HTTP / 1. 1 standard were released under RFC 2616 in June 1999.

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

Improvements were remarkably consistent across the whole period, in both countries.

Improvements in livestock and dairy technology offer significant promise in reducing poverty and malnutrition in the world.

Improvements in public health and education, provision of child care, provision of state-directed social services, and provision of social benefits are deemed by Marxist-Leninists to help to raise labour productivity and advance a society in development towards a communist society.

Since 1990, the NTSB has maintained a Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, in which it highlights those recommendations that would provide the most significant — and sometimes immediate — benefit to the traveling public.

Improvements have been made in manufacturing processes, and many individual details of the instrument continue to receive attention.

Improvements in one or more of these yield determinants, and a closure of the yield gap, can be a major boost to food supply and farmer incomes in the developing world.

** 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.

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