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 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.

The breakthrough came soon after when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, having explored as far as the Fish River ( Rio do Infante ) in modern-day South Africa and having verified that the unknown coast stretched away to the northeast.

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 ".

1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when in the West Indies Youth Championships he scored 498 runs breaking the record of 480 by Carl Hooper set the previous year.

While at university, Gauss independently rediscovered several important theorems ; his breakthrough occurred in 1796 when he showed that any regular polygon with a number of sides which is a Fermat prime ( and, consequently, those polygons with any number of sides which is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2 ) can be constructed by compass and straightedge.

The key breakthrough occurred when Alfred Werner proposed in 1893 that Co ( III ) bears six ligands in an octahedral geometry.

He achieved his breakthrough as a dancer on film when MGM loaned him out to Columbia to work with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl ( 1944 ), where he created a memorable routine dancing to his own reflection.

The industry saw a major breakthrough in 1962 when the government granted the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau ( STDM ), a syndicate jointly formed by Hong Kong and Macau businessmen, the monopoly rights to all forms of gambling.

A major breakthrough in the understanding of materials occurred in the late 19th century, when the American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs demonstrated that the thermodynamic properties related to atomic structure in various phases are related to the physical properties of a material.

It was a big breakthrough for the theory of quantum information, when quantum error correction codes and fault-tolerant quantum computation schemes were discovered.

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.

Statistical techniques began in the 18th century, when Buffon's needle was proposed as a way to approximate the number π. Fermi used them in the 1930s, and when he heard of Ulam's breakthrough, created the FERMIAC, which performs a mechanical simulation of random diffusion of neutrons.

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

An earlier error occurred when Enrico Fermi submitted his breakthrough paper on the weak interaction theory of beta decay.

Their two daughters were still very young and growing up when Jeffreys ' work life became hectic for the two or three years following his genetic fingerprinting breakthrough.

" Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Dr. Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method.

If this can be repeated, this is an important scientific breakthrough.

Generally the term is used to describe breakthrough scientific, religious or philosophical discoveries, but it can apply in any situation in which an enlightening realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new and deeper perspective.

However, this potential medical breakthrough was initially met with skepticism and resistance from the scientific community.

Although the production of Dolly was a scientific breakthrough, it was controversial, since it showed that not only could cloned animals be produced for use in farming, but also that it would now be, in principle, possible to clone a human being.

But his skepticism is about current physics: he envisages in his most recent work that people may be close to a scientific breakthrough in identifying an underlying essence that is neither physical ( as people currently think of the physical ), nor functional, nor mental, but such that it necessitates all three of these ways in which the mind " appears " to us.

During Pupin's tenure, Harold C. Urey, in his work with the hydrogen isotope deuterium demonstrated the existence of heavy water, the first major scientific breakthrough in the newly founded laboratories ( 1931 ).

This unique approach embraces cross-disciplinary teaching modalities, breakthrough technologies, and innovative ways to advance training in both clinical skills and scientific investigation throughout the medical school curriculum.

" We certainly had no feeling that we were creating some scientific breakthrough !... We put the engine at the rear ... because it was the practical thing to do ," Cooper said.

This was the scientific breakthrough that would lead to the understanding of the physiological basis of the Lysosomal Storage Diseases.

The two kept their breakthrough a secret from the larger scientific community until they could complete further experiments with other strands of synthetic RNA ( such as Poly-A ) and prepare papers for publication.

Thus, a breakthrough in science was achieved by disregarding different operational definitions of scientific measurements and realizing that they both described a single theoretical concept.

The study was carried out at the University of North Carolina Center for Infectious Diseases and the University of North Carolina Center for AIDS Research, but will need to be replicated in other clinical and laboratory studies at other institutions, such as other hospitals and universities, to be considered as admissible scientific evidence, not least because a claim that a bodily fluid can kill the AIDS virus would be considered a scientific novelty and breakthrough of large proportions ( human breast milk can also transmit the virus ).

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Society is plunged into chaos as infrastructures collapse, and the surviving women everywhere try to cope with the loss of the men, and the belief that-barring a rapid, major scientific breakthrough or other extraordinary happening-humanity is doomed to extinction.

The center plans to make a breakthrough in integrating clinical treatment and scientific research ; seven clinical research centers will be constructed, with a view to realizing a " seamless interconnection " between clinical treatment and scientific research.

" Citing Alfred W. McCoy, Klein further writes that " Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method.

The result of the project, which used both real-time and store and forward techniques, was a major scientific breakthrough which proved that active communications satellites could provide a means of transmitting messages from one point to any other on Earth.

A scientific breakthrough came in 1906, when Ewing and his collaborators proved for the first time that a cancer ( lymphosarcoma in dogs ) could be transmitted from one animal to another.

He argued that many of the greatest breakthrough scientific discoveries in history have occurred by accident, in locations no more glamorous than Aaron's garage.

This too was a highly important breakthrough, since the prehistory of what is now China had not yet been investigated in scientific archaeological excavations and the Yangshao and other prehistoric cultures were completely unknown ( they had never been mentioned in any historical documents, and had never before been recognized and investigated ).

Foucault considers the breakthrough of " this governmental reasoning " of the population as a substantial event in Western history and society comparable to the scientific revolution of the 16th century.