With the advent of gunpowder, ranged assassination ( via bombs or firearms ) became possible.

However, this claim is dubious, considering that gunpowder warfare did not exist in China until the advent of the flamethrower ( Pen Huo Qi ) in the 10th century, while the land mine was not seen in China until the late 13th century.

Although the Chinese invented gunpowder, and firearms had been in continual use in Chinese warfare since as far back as the Song Dynasty, the advent of modern weaponry resulting from the European Industrial Revolution had rendered China's traditionally trained and equipped army and navy obsolete.

With the advent of gunpowder the position of Keeper of the Artillery was created in 1486.

From the 15th century and onwards, chain mail, lamellar armor, and scale armor seemed to fall out of favour with Eastern noble cavalrymen as elaborate and robust plate cuirasses arrived from the West ; this, in combination with the advent of early firearms, cannon and gunpowder, rendered the relatively thin and flexible armor of cataphracts obsolete.

With the advent of gunpowder, firearms such as the arquebus and cannon — eventually the mortar and artillery — were developed.

With the advent of gunpowder warfare in the late 15th century, the balance of advantage for war elephants on the battlefield began to change.

The advent of gunpowder siege cannons rendered the fortifications vulnerable, but cannon technology was not advanced enough to be decisive enough alone to capture the city, and the walls were repaired between reloading.

With the advent of cannon and gunpowder, the castle was remodelled between 1545 and 1548.

Shortly after its advent, Americans Jim Wynne, Dick Bertram and Don Aronow led the battle for technological supremacy, with Daytona, Mercruiser, and AeroMarine power plants reigning supreme.

The phenakistoscope ( 1832 ), zoetrope ( 1834 ) and praxinoscope ( 1877 ), as well as the common flip book, were early animation devices to produce movement from sequential drawings using technological means, but animation did not develop further until the advent of motion picture film.

Ultimately, the system as it stood could not deal quickly enough with the large deficits and surpluses created in the balance of payments ; this has previously been attributed to increasing rigidity of wages ( particularly in terms of wage cuts ) brought about by the advent of unionized labor, but is now more likely thought of as an inherent fault with the system which came to light under the pressures of war and rapid technological change.

After significant post-war losses to American productions in market-share / competition, Gaumont experienced the subsequent business reversals of technological change ( the advent of sound ) and financial depression, and was eventually merged with Franco-Film Aubert in the early 1930s.

With the advent of artificial lighting and faster ( more light sensitive ) film stocks, in addition to technological advancements in optics and new techniques such as color film and widescreen, the technical aspects of cinematography necessitated a specialist in that area.

From the advent of the personal computer to the birth of the first test tube baby, this period was characterized by intense and rapid technological change.

It was an era before the advent of modern technological methods for the construction of permanent roads and in those days the Cape Flats was a massive sea of unstabilized sand dunes that moved at will before the winds.

As technological limitations gradually lifted, composers were given more freedom and with the advent of CD-ROM pre-recorded soundtracks came to dominate, resulting in a noticeable shift in composition and voicing style.

Neo-Luddism holds the belief that we were better off before its advent and is the opposite of technophilia, the belief that technological innovation will remedy all ills.

A number of the same technological limitations persisted until the advent of digital typesetting and pagination in late 20th century.

With the advent of new technological advancements during the 1970s, Ecuavisa was able to gain the attention of a sizeable portion of Ecuador's television-viewing public by pioneering the introduction of new programming and broadcasting partnerships with regional providers.

For a class there, he submitted a paper which argued that in modern technological society time meant money more than ever before and with the advent of miniaturized electronic circuitry, very small components had become extremely valuable.

It is composed of a sequence of segments ambitiously chronicling the formation of Earth (" Creation "), the rise of human civilizations (" Civilization Rising "), and the technological advances of humanity from the advent of agriculture to the future exploration of the cosmos.

The advent of the germ theory and advances in bacteriology brought a new level of sophistication to the theoretical use of bio-agents in war.

Advances in technology saw advent of the tank, with the creation of the Royal Tank Regiment, and advances in aircraft design, with the creation of the Royal Flying Corps, which were to be decisive in future battles.

Since the 1950s, hydrology has been approached with a more theoretical basis than in the past, facilitated by advances in the physical understanding of hydrological processes and by the advent of computers and especially geographic information systems ( GIS ).

With the advent of the evidence-based medicine and great advances of information technology the process of change is likely to evolve further, with greater development of international projects such as the Human genome project.

The Information Age formed by capitalizing on the computer microminiaturization advances, with a transition spanning from the advent of the personal computer in the late 1970s to the internet's reaching a critical mass in the early 1990s, and the adoption of such technology by the public in the two decades after 1990.

However, with the advent of the " metal-wood " by TaylorMade and other subsequent advances in golf ball and golf club technology ( especially the variable face depth driver ), his dominance was significantly diminished, as the " new technology " enabled less precise ball-strikers to achieve equal or better accuracy and distance.

A great many developments and significant events took place during this period, ranging from advances in castle design to the advent of the cavalry charge, the further development of campaign strategies on a grand scale, to the significant changes brought on by the introduction of firearms.

With the advent of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, and with successive advances in quantum field theory, the importance of gauge transformations has steadily grown.

In the past 20 years, with the advent of personal computers, the Internet, email, cell phones, and other information technology advances, a subset of civil libertarianism has arisen that focuses on protecting individuals ’ digital rights and privacy.

Parallels include the advent of the simple Baroque continuo style following elaborate Renaissance polyphony and the simple early classical symphony following Bach's monumental advances in Baroque counterpoint.

He cites astrology as an example: it was stagnant compared to advances in physics during the 17th century, and only later became " pseudoscience " in the advent of alternative explanations provided by psychology during the 19th century.

Even if the oncolytic effect of the Newcastle Disease Virus ( NDV ) was documented already in the 1950s, the main advances of viruses in cancer therapy came with the advent of reverse genetics technologies ( Flanagan et al.

In modern practice, the advent of liquid acrylic additives and other advances to the grout mixture, create slower moisture absorption over the older formulas, and also increase bonding strength to mitigate these failures.

With the advent of the jet era, travel to Europe on the rise and such airlines as Air France, BOAC, Iberia, and United States airlines, particularly Pan Am and TWA making international advances, it was decided that an airport was needed in Billund during the 1960s.

Since the late 1990s, the advent of research using biobanks has brought advances in molecular biology, technologies including proteomics, metabolomic analysis, genetic testing, and molecular medicine.

The Russian support for Ethiopia led to the advent of a Russian Red Cross mission.

It was these restaurants that expanded upon the limited menus of decades prior, and led to the full restaurants that were completely legalized with the advent of the French Revolution and abolition of the guilds.

Also, the Russian support for Ethiopia led to the advent of a Russian Red Cross mission.

The advent of the high-speed TGV link to Paris has led to renovation of the city's railway station while a new passenger terminal at Luxembourg Airport has recently been opened.

The advent of the high-speed TGV link to Paris has led to renovation of the city's railway station while a new passenger terminal at Luxembourg Airport has recently been opened.

This led to the advent of the " Whiz Kids ," led by a lineup of young players developed by the Phillies ' farm system that included future Hall of Famers Richie Ashburn and Robin Roberts.

The advent of the microcomputer and digital photography has led to the rise of digital prints.

This precursor to the effects of the Suez Canal ( 1869 ), coupled with the advent of steam shipping that was not reliant on trade winds led to a gradual reduction in the number of ships calling at St Helena and to a decline in its strategic importance to Britain and economic fortunes.

This eventually led to the 1960s advent of the Space Coupe, a spacecraft with a magnetic propulsion system.

In the middle of the 20th century, the advent of diesel and electric motors led for the first time to systems that could pump groundwater out of major aquifers faster than it was recharged.

In the 1860s, the advent of electric motors made it possible for a gyroscope to spin indefinitely ; this led to the first prototype gyrocompasses.

The last literary generation of the 19th century signaled a decided break with the past and the advent of modernism-after the wave of optimism in the wake of the French Revolution at the beginning of the century, the lack of progress in implementing these ideals of freedom and brotherhood led to both a skepticism toward the possibility of ever achieving these ideals, and renewed efforts to do so.

The advent of bebop led to new developments in Fitzgerald's vocal style, influenced by her work with Dizzy Gillespie's big band.

Historically, a powered tool also required moving parts to classify as a machine ; however, the advent of electronics technology has led to the development of powered tools without moving parts that are considered machines.

The exact number of copies sold has never been audited ; however, a figure of at least 25 million was cited by the Guinness Book of World Records in its category " Phonograph records: Biggest Sellers " from the early 1970s until the 1990s, when the advent of compact discs led to Guinness discontinuing the category.

In the late 19th century, the Industrial Revolution and the advent of factories driven by water power along the streams and rivers led to an increase in population attracted to the jobs.

This crisis led to the advent of Fascism, which destroyed freedoms and civil rights and established a dictatorship, breaking the continuity of the still fragile new parliamentary tradition.

The advent of take-away foods during the Industrial Revolution led to foods such as fish and chips, mushy peas, and pie and mash.

The construction of good roads and the advent of the automobile, combined with the growth of the petrochemical industry in Baton Rouge, over a period of years led to Denham Springs becoming the so-called " bedroom of Baton Rouge ".

AT & T continued to operate the tower until the advent of fiber optic cables and satellites which led to the replacement for the underground coaxial cable network and the use of the 318-foot steel structure now sitting vacant within the eastern Miami County farm fields.

The advent of the automobile led to a slow decline in tourism.

As iron and steel were used in other ships, so were they used in lightvessels, and the advent of steam and diesel power led to self-propelled and electrically lighted designs.