The steel price dropped as a direct result, and Bessemer steel was rapidly adopted for railway lines and girders for buildings and bridges.

Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the " New York Game " ( as opposed to the " Massachusetts Game ", played by clubs in the Boston area ).

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

The HTTP WG planned to publish new standards in December 1995 and the support for pre-standard HTTP / 1. 1 based on the then developing RFC 2068 ( called HTTP-NG ) was rapidly adopted by the major browser developers in early 1996.

The then-proposed 802. 11g standard was rapidly adopted by consumers starting in January 2003, well before ratification, due to the desire for higher data rates as well as to reductions in manufacturing costs.

However, it appeared to strike a happy medium between simplicity and flexibility, and was rapidly adopted for many other uses.

Armstrong was able to rapidly put his ideas into practice, and the technique was rapidly adopted by the military.

A tradition may be deliberately created and promulgated for personal, commercial, political, or national self-interest, as was done in colonial Africa ; or it may be adopted rapidly based on a single highly publicized event, rather than developing and spreading organically in a population, as in the case of the white wedding dress, which only became popular after Queen Victoria wore a white gown at her wedding to Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

The new sport was rapidly adopted and became popular through Sobek's continual promotion of it ; he was aided by the existence of some 40, 000 handball courts in the country's YMCAs and JCCs, wherein racquetball could be played.

With the appearance of XML as an alternative to SGML, XML's associated stylesheet language XSL was also widely and rapidly adopted, from around 1999.

After the U. S. Department of Defense standardized an 8 '× 8 ' cross section container in multiples of 10 ' lengths for military use, it was rapidly adopted for shipping purposes.

From about 1740, the Plains tribes rapidly adopted the horse, but the severe winters in the North kept their herds smaller than those of Plains tribes in the South.

Customers rapidly adopted the PC platform with PC DOS as the new industry standard, and opportunities for DRI to license CP / M-86 to other customers dwindled.

First, Lanchester balance shafts, an old idea reintroduced by Mitsubishi in the 1980s to overcome the natural imbalance of the straight-4 engine and rapidly adopted by many other manufacturers, have made both straight-4 and V6 engines smoother-running ; the greater smoothness of the straight-6 layout is no longer as great an advantage.

Hedrick's alternative approach rapidly proved itself to be faster and was soon adopted by many elite skaters.

This period saw the introduction of the two schools that had perhaps the greatest impact on the country: ( 1 ) the Amidist Pure Land schools, promulgated by evangelists such as Genshin and articulated by monks such as Hōnen, which emphasize salvation through faith in Amitabha and remain the largest Buddhist sect in Japan ( and throughout Asia ); and ( 2 ) the more philosophical Zen schools, promulgated by monks such as Eisai and Dogen, which emphasize liberation through the insight of meditation, which were equally rapidly adopted by the upper classes and had a profound impact on Japanese culture.

The dynasty does not appear to have been Tamil in origin, although they rapidly adopted the local culture and the Tamil language.

The Rossi coincidence circuit was rapidly adopted by experimenters around the world.

It rapidly evolved into the Karabiner 98 Kurz, which was adopted by Nazi Germany as the standard infantry rifle in 1935 and saw service until the end of World War II.

System 7. 0 was adopted quite rapidly by Mac users, and quickly became one of the base requirements for new software.

It was rapidly adopted and developed in the surrounding Celtic cultures of Brittany, where it was pioneered by Alan Stivell and bands like Malicorne ; in Ireland by groups such as Horslips ; and also in Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man and Cornwall, to produce Celtic rock and its derivatives.

In about 1840, the species adopted the cultivated potato into its host range and it rapidly became a most destructive pest of potato crops.

By the end of the 17th century, First Nations from the northeastern woodlands, eastern subarctic and the Métis ( a people of joint First Nations and European descent ) had rapidly adopted the use of firearms, supplanting the traditional bow.

CIX then grew rapidly, reaching a peak of more than 16, 000 users in 1994, before starting to lose customers to the newly formed Internet service providers that offered free access to the mass market using 0845 dialup, such as Demon ( which was started by Cixen Cliff Stanford, whose CIX nickname was ' Demon '), Pipex, AOL and Freeserve.

During these inter-city rivalries was born the nickname for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis-The Nickel Plate Road-which rapidly became the name most commonly used.

As the 7th Panzer Division it participated in the 1940 Battle of France under the command of the soon-to-be-famous Erwin Rommel, earning its nickname Gespenster-Division (" Ghost Division ",) because it advanced so rapidly into and beyond the French front lines that higher headquarters lost track of where it was.

Preventing the ' cheese cutter effect ' can be one of the reasons not to perform the initial piercing at a small diameter ( 16g, 14g or 12g ) and / or to rapidly start the stretching procedure to at least 8g or 6g, although personal preference and individual anatomy also play a role in these decisions.

Since the main stagecoach routes from London to Northern England passed through the village of Stilton he was able to promote the sale of this cheese and the fame of Stilton rapidly spread.

The objective was to increase market leadership for Glanbia and Leprino in the rapidly growing European pizza cheese market.

The new system for making cheese was widely copied and extended rapidly to many parts of Scotland by the end of the 18th century, even where traditionally sheep's milk cheese had been made.

After the invention of processed cheese in 1911, and its popularization by James L. Kraft in the late 1910s and 1920s, the term " American cheese " rapidly began to refer to this variety rather than to American cheddar.

However, in certain situations, such as an underdeveloped or impaired immune system, intense stress, or malnutrition, the mites can reproduce rapidly, causing symptoms in sensitive dogs that range from mild irritation and hair loss on a small patch of skin to severe and widespread inflammation, secondary infection, and — in rare cases — a life-threatening condition.

In this way, red wine warms of itself quite rapidly -- and though it is true that it may not attain its potential of taste and fragrance until after the middle of the meal ( or the course ), in the meantime it will have run the gamut of many beguiling and interesting stages.

The physical understanding of acoustical processes advanced rapidly during and after the Scientific Revolution.

After Ali ibn Yusuf's death in 1143, his son Tashfin ibn Ali lost ground rapidly before the Almohads, and in 1146 he was killed by a fall from a precipice while attempting to escape after a defeat near Oran.

Micah's career corresponds to the period when, after a long period of peace, Israel, Judah, and the other nations of the region came under increasing pressure from the aggressive and rapidly expanding Assyrian empire.

Shortly after the French order to set sails was abandoned, the British fleet began rapidly approaching once more and Brueys, now expecting to come under attack on that night, ordered each of his ships to also place springs on their anchor cables and prepare for action.

Conquérant was defeated more rapidly, after heavy broadsides from passing British ships and the close attentions of Audacious and Goliath brought down all three masts before 19: 00.

And, based on the findings of placebo-controlled studies, they do not recommend use of benzodiazepines beyond two to four weeks, as tolerance and physical dependence develop rapidly, with withdrawal symptoms including rebound anxiety occurring after six weeks or more of use.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after the marriage but her health declined rapidly and according to Gaskell, she was attacked by " sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

Instruments on Galileo detected a fireball which reached a peak temperature of about 24, 000 K, compared to the typical Jovian cloudtop temperature of about 130 K, before expanding and cooling rapidly to about 1500 K after 40 s. The plume from the fireball quickly reached a height of over 3, 000 km.

* A running engine does not stop taking air & fuel into the cylinder when the piston reaches BDC ; The mixture that is rushing into the cylinder during the downstroke develops momentum and continues briefly after the vacuum ceases ( in the same respect that rapidly opening a door will create a draft that continues after movement of the door ceases ).

Demand in the United States for higher education rapidly grew each decade after World War II into the 1970s.

In 1492, a Spanish expedition headed by Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, after which European exploration and colonization rapidly expanded.

Gully erosion occurs when runoff water accumulates, and then rapidly flows in narrow channels during or immediately after heavy rains or melting snow, removing soil to a considerable depth.

* Al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades – The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were created in the Second Intifada to bolster the organization's militant standing vis-à-vis the rival Hamas movement, which had taken the lead in attacks on Israel after 1993, and was gaining rapidly in popularity with the advent of the Intifada.

Jumps involve the skater leaping into the air and rotating rapidly to land after completing one or more rotations.

The transformation was led by two cities that grew rapidly after 1770.

After 1860 the Clydeside shipyards specialised in steamships made of iron ( after 1870, made of steel ), which rapidly replaced the wooden sailing vessels of both the merchant fleets and the battle fleets of the world.

In 203 BC, after nearly fifteen years of fighting in Italy, and with the military fortunes of Carthage rapidly declining, Hannibal was recalled to Carthage to direct the defense of his native country against a Roman invasion under Scipio Africanus.

As a result, the USSR was rapidly transformed from an agrarian society into an industrial power, the basis for its emergence as the world's second largest economy after World War II.

John had already begun to improve his Channel forces before the loss of Normandy and he rapidly built up further maritime capabilities after its collapse.

Although it was never able to match the number of ships of the Royal Navy, it had technological advantages, such as better shells and propellant for much of the Great War, meaning that it never lost a ship to a catastrophic magazine explosion from an above-water attack, although the elderly pre-dreadnought Pommern sank rapidly at Jutland after a magazine explosion caused by an underwater attack.

Then, after the pump energy stored in the laser medium has approached the maximum possible level, the introduced loss mechanism ( often an electro-or acousto-optical element ) is rapidly removed ( or that occurs by itself in a passive device ), allowing lasing to begin which rapidly obtains the stored energy in the gain medium.