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With the advent of wireless and radio goods, people came to be much more connected.
With the advent of steel, which has a high tensile strength, much larger bridges were built, many using the ideas of Gustave Eiffel.
The advent of magnetic devices, such as the compass and much later, magnetic storage devices, allowed for the creation of far more accurate maps and the ability to store and manipulate them digitally.
While rheumatic fever since the advent of routine penicillin administration for Strep throat has become less common in developed countries, in the older generation and in much of the less-developed world, valvular disease ( including mitral valve prolapse, reinfection in the form of valvular endocarditis, and valve rupture ) from undertreated rheumatic fever continues to be a problem.
Despite the advent of a regular television service in the Federal Republic in 1952, cinema attendances continued to grow through much of the 1950s, reaching a peak of 817. 5 million visits in 1956.
While in the early days these calculations were extremely expensive to perform, the advent of high speed microprocessors has made them much more feasible today.
A solution appeared with the advent of Novell NetWare which provided even-handed support for dozens of competing card / cable types, and a much more sophisticated operating system than most of its competitors.
The advent of polyphony brought about fantasias: complex, intricate pieces with much use of imitative counterpoint.
The advent of the internet has made outing public figures much easier.
Production of an initial batch of 250 began in 1951, but it became clear that they could not be made at a competitive price besides which the advent of transistor radios with their much lower power requirements meant that the original rationale for the set was disappearing.
Augustine's position, and subsequently that of much of Christianity, was that Adam and Eve had the power to topple God's perfect order, thus changing nature by bringing sin into the world, but that the advent of sin then limited mankind's power thereafter to evade the consequences without divine aid.
With the advent of C-support, application programs were no longer limited to 4K sizes, much larger C programs could be created, loaded to the TPF system as multiple 4K records and read into memory during a fetch operation and correctly reassembled.
The canal's engineer, G. R. Webb, produced a report on the expected costs of laying rails along the towpaths, but nothing more was heard of the project, and the advent of steam and diesel powered boats offered a much simpler solution.
Localization of brain functions in humans has become much easier with the advent of brain imaging methods ( PET and fMRI ).
* After gaining political rights in the United States and much of Europe in the first part of the century, and with the advent of new birth control techniques, women became more independent throughout the century.
Finding retired editions has become much more convenient with the advent of Internet auctions and trading.
The kitchen became a much cleaner space with the advent of " cooking machines ", closed stoves made of iron plates and fired by wood and increasingly charcoal or coal, and that had flue pipes connected to the chimney.
With the advent of digital sampling and music editing on the computer, breakbeats have become much easier to create and use.
Before the advent of ovulation-stimulating drugs, triplets were quite rare ( approximately 1 in 8000 births ) and higher order births much rarer still.
Other materials for modern rigid dinghies include aluminium, marine plywood which tends to be much lighter than most types and, with the advent of sturdy, UV resistant polyurethane varnishes, wood.
The desire to regain prestige after their defeat by the Royal Air Force over Britain in 1940 may have played a role in their thinking, especially before the advent of the much more important ( and army-controlled ) invasion of Russia.
With the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side / B-side differentiation became much less meaningful.
This practice became much less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs.
As most of that land was too dry ( low rainfall ) and too mountainous or hilly to support very much population until the advent of new technology following about 1880: means for damming and distributing water from the few rivers to irrigated farmland ; the telegraph ; the railroad ; the telephone ; and electrical power.

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According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.
These include psychometry ( establishing the history of an object ), slate writing ( common in Victorian times ), extras appearing in photographs ( seemingly no more ; possibly since the advent of compound camera lenses using plastic as well as quartz-glass ) and a long list of other curiosities.
The history of the double bass is tightly coupled to the development of string technology, as it was the advent of overwound gut strings, which first rendered the instrument more generally practicable, as wound strings attain low notes within a smaller overall string diameter than unwound strings.
Although most of the relevant tissues and endocrine glands had been identified by early anatomists, a more humoral approach to understanding biological function and disease was favoured by the ancient Greek and Roman thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Lucretius, Celsus, and Galen, according to Freeman et al., and these theories held sway until the advent of germ theory, physiology, and organ basis of pathology in the 19th century.
After Skylab, no more EVAs were made by the United States until the advent of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s.
At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.
With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.
However, with the advent of sound films, many foreign actors or those with strong regional accents soon found themselves in less demand, and more ' formal ' English ( received pronunciation ) became the norm.
With the advent of computer printers and desktop publishing in the 1980s, fanzines began to look far more professional.
With the advent of processed foods in the second half of the 20th century, many more additives have been introduced, of both natural and artificial origin.
With the advent of the free software movement, license schemes were created to give developers more freedom in terms of code sharing.
There are more companies producing more varieties of kits on subjects than ever before, and the levels of detail has become unbelievably accurate with the advent of modern drafting and molding equipment, and digitized CAD software to drive accuracy to the 1000th of an inch.
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 ).
The awareness about non-manageable amounts of data grew along with the advent of ever more powerful data processing since the mid-1960s.
With the advent of the Internet, even more of this type of fiction is available.
With the advent of the industrial age, kilns were designed to utilize electricity and more refined fuels, including natural gas and propane.
With the advent of quantum mechanics this picture was given more formal interpretation in the form of the free electron model and its further extension, the nearly free electron model.
In particular, medieval fortifications became progressively stronger — for example, the advent of the concentric castle from the period of the Crusades — and more dangerous to attackers — witness the increasing use of machicolations and murder-holes, as well the preparation of hot or incendiary substances.
The advent of photosynthesis in very basic forms of plant life worldwide allowed the sun's energy to be harvested to create conditions allowing for more complex life.

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