A major breakthrough in bridge technology came with the erection of the Iron Bridge in Coalbrookdale, England in 1779.

The foursome's breakthrough came with winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with " Waterloo " on 6 April 1974.

Bombardier's technological breakthrough in the design of bush vehicles came in the mid-1930s when he developed a drive system that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions.

Hydro-metallurgical, and magnetic separation methods were also tried, but the main breakthrough came in 1902 when Delprat and Potter independently devised processes that would eventually be patented as the Delprat-Potter method.

Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon.

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.

His breakthrough came in 1993 when he got a gig at the Renaissance Club in Mansfield after fellow DJ Alexander Coe ( aka Sasha ) heard his demo.

The band's American breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, " Virtual Insanity " and " Cosmic Girl ".

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.

Later that same year, her Swedish breakthrough came with the single " Do You Really Want Me ( Show Respect )".

Robyn's US breakthrough came in 1997, when the dance-pop singles " Show Me Love " and " Do You Know ( What It Takes )" reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.

The next important research breakthrough came from Turner Whitted in 1979.

His breakthrough came from the insights of Professor Leonard Gale, who taught chemistry at New York University ( a personal friend of Joseph Henry ).

The band's breakthrough came in 1982 with the release of the single " Party Fears Two ".

The breakthrough came when a scientific description of the inoculation operation was submitted to the Royal Society in 1724 by Dr Emmanual Timoni, who had been the Montagu's family physician in Istanbul.

The breakthrough year for arabidopsis as the preferred model plant came in 1986, when T-DNA-mediated transformation was first published, and this coincided with the first gene to be cloned and published in Arabidopsis.

His first major breakthrough came in 1912 at age eighteen with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature.

Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.

Zeffirelli's major breakthrough came the year after when he presented two teenagers as Romeo and Juliet, the perfect venue for 1968.

Tracy's breakthrough came in 1930, when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood.

His ' breakthrough ' came in 1616, with the life-size group portrait, The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company.

The breakthrough came in February 1997 when the satellite BeppoSAX detected a gamma-ray burst ( GRB 970228 ) and when the X-ray camera was pointed towards the direction from which the burst had originated, it detected fading X-ray emission.

However, the breakthrough came in 1856 when the Declaration of Paris, signed by all major European powers, stated that " Privateering is and remains abolished ".

This was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock, the title character in The Graduate.

Post-grunge bands such as Candlebox and Bush emerged soon after grunge's breakthrough.

This may soon change, as a new breakthrough in the technology has successfully cooled a macro-scale object to near absolute zero.

" He followed soon after with a dramatic breakthrough on Missionary Ridge in the Battle of Chattanooga.

The " notch " breakthrough would soon after evolve into a " step ", with the rear section of the lower hull sharply recessed above the forward lower hull section, and that characteristic became a feature of both flying boat hulls and seaplane floats.

In 1995 this new telescope produced the first astrometric line, and soon Korlević and his colleagues had discovered previously undiscovered asteroids, a big breakthrough for Croatian astronomy.

Mojo nevertheless persisted, and to the band's surprise, " Zoot Suit Riot " soon found regular rotation on stations such as Los Angeles ' influential KROQ-FM, helping establish swing in the mainstream and leading to its eventual commercial breakthrough, with the Daddies at the forefront.

The city's most famous son is Roy Horn of " Siegfried & Roy ", who grew up in Blexen but soon left town after school and supposedly never returned for a visit after his remarkable breakthrough as a magician.

Party members and supporters were optimistic that the party would soon make the breakthrough into UK parliament, and party leader Nick Griffin stood in Barking for the 2010 general election.

Coincidentally, Grodin soon landed his breakthrough role as a comedy actor in the film The Heartbreak Kid, based on a short story by Steambath author Friedman.

Van Handenhoven made an early breakthrough in Belgian first division and soon he was transferred to FC Metz.

The company's breakthrough came soon after when Koffler devised a new line that was significantly better than that of the competition ; he named it American Tourister.

Fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans ( although Lethal is Latvian American ), they toured with various rap and alternative-rock bands after their breakthrough.

Shortly after Witten's breakthrough in 1995, Joseph Polchinski of the University of California, Santa Barbara discovered a fairly obscure feature of string theory.

In September 2012 Australian researchers say the world's first quantum computer is just 5 to 10 years away, after announcing a global breakthrough that makes manufacture of its memory building blocks possible.

Clinical trials are currently underway in Antwerp, Belgium using VNS for the treatment of tonal tinnitus after a breakthrough study published in early 2011 by researchers at the University of Texas-Dallas showed successful tinnitus suppression in rats when tones were paired with brief pulses of stimulation of the vagus nerve.

According to his memoirs written after the war, the German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed that although a major breakthrough might no longer be achieved, the French army could still be defeated if it suffered a sufficient number of casualties.

In his spare time he was able to do a little journalism, but his breakthrough as a writer came after he had moved from the Potteries.

Kent briefly attempted an international career with English versions of the albums Isola and Hagnesta Hill and an accompanying American tour for the former, but they gave up after failing to achieve the breakthrough they had hoped for.

After the Kinks obtained a recording contract in early 1964, Davies emerged as the chief songwriter and de facto leader of the band, especially after the band's breakthrough success with his early composition " You Really Got Me ", which was released as the band's third single in August of that year.

The following year, he finished eighth in the same tournament ( after a fifteenth place in the European Allround Championships ), placing second on the 1, 500 m. His breakthrough came in 1990, winning the World Allround Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.

Their partnership grew after graduation as part of the comedy group The Credibility Gap with Harry Shearer in Los Angeles, but McKean's breakthrough came in 1976 when he joined the cast of Laverne and Shirley.

But after three days of much fanfare, which included Musharraf visiting his birthplace in Delhi, the summit failed to achieve a breakthrough as President Musharraf declined to leave aside the issue of Kashmir.

In 1968, after the breakthrough in UK-made The Dirty Dozen, Sutherland left London for Hollywood.

The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands: The Strokes, who emerged from the New York club scene with their début album Is This It ( 2001 ); The White Stripes, from Detroit, with their third album White Blood Cells ( 2001 ); The Hives from Sweden, after their compilation album Your New Favourite Band ( 2001 ); and The Vines from Australia with Highly Evolved ( 2002 ).

Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992.

Their popularity was challenged by the alternative rock bands who began to breakthrough to the mainstream, particularly after the success of Nirvana, from the early 1990s.

Gaddafi had been hiding out in the desert for a month but the breakthrough came when he made two calls, one after the other, to say he was safe.

The video was played often on MTV and VH1 after the attacks and became Adams's breakthrough to mainstream music consumers.

Comparisons were drawn to Justin Timberlake, who did not return to band ' N Sync after his breakthrough debut solo album, Justified.

The second album, Toulouse Street ( which spawned the hits and classic rock staples, " Listen to the Music " and " Jesus Is Just Alright "), brought the band their breakthrough success after its release in July 1972.

He made his first major film breakthrough shortly after, with his role as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994.