He constructed and patented in London a low-lift combined vacuum and pressure water pump, that generated about one horsepower ( hp ) and was used in numerous water works and tried in a few mines ( hence its " brand name ", The Miner's Friend ), but it was not a success since it was limited in pumping height and prone to boiler explosions.

In 1804, at the height of his success, he ran into legal trouble by publishing prints related to a banned historical novel.

< center > Directing Panic in the Streets ( 1950 )</ center > At the height of his stage success, Kazan then turned to Hollywood where he soon demonstrated equal skill as director of motion pictures.

With Dynasty at the height of its success, Collins began producing and starred in the 1986 CBS miniseries Sins and Monte Carlo.

At the height of her success and after separating from her husband in 1770, she discovered that she could sustain herself financially by finding wealthy benefactors, establishing herself as a courtesan to them.

During the height of the show's success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products.

At the height of its success, FrameMaker ran on more than thirteen UNIX platforms, including NeXT Computer's NeXTSTEP and IBM's AIX operating systems.

At the height of her success, she was named as one of People's " 50 Most Beautiful People ".

The height of his success culminated in his launching of Elvis Presley's career in 1954.

The experiment proved a success, and the slope increased in height rather than decreased.

This style later evolved into a tighter guitar-based funk ( circa 1971-75 ), which subsequently, during the height of Parliament-Funkadelic success ( circa 1976-81 ), added elements of R & B and electronic music, with fewer psychedelic rock elements.

Prior to the advent of the railroad in the second half of the nineteenth century, the town's location on the river made for a thriving community ; it is reputed to have been the largest town between Chicago and Terre Haute at the height of its success.

The height of the Pottsville Crimson Tide football team's success recently came between the years on 2004 through 2006.

At the height of the city's industrial success the city's population swelled to more than 4, 000 residents.

The side parapet of the bridge was raised in height at the beginning of the 20th century as a deterrent to suicides, which were very common here in the 19th century, being more or less guaranteed success.

At in height ( some magazines reported as short as ), Columbu is shorter than most of his bodybuilding competitors, but that did not prevent him from achieving widespread success.

Philip IV at the height of his success, painted c. 1631-2 by Diego Velázquez.

At the height of his success, Guccione, who died in 2010, was considered to be one of the richest men in the United States.

At the height of the C64's success, CU had a page count of 116.

The band was also featured, along with a 70-piece orchestra, on the live album “ An Evening of Magic ,” which was recorded at the Hollywood Bowl on July 16, 1978, at the height of Mangione ’ s success from “ Feels So Good .” Performances of material new and old included versions of “ Main Squeeze ,” “ Hill Where the Lord Hides ” and “ Chase the Clouds Away .” Mangione opened and closed the show with “ Feels So Good ” and its “ Reprise ” version.

But while All Around My Hat was the height of the band's commercial success, the good times were not to last long.

At the height of the group's success, they also had a video game released by Digital Pictures entitled Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Video, but the game was not a success and has been considered one of the worst video games ever made.

By 1971 they were living together, but did not marry until 6 October 1978, during the height of ABBA's success.

In August 1917, La Badie was at the height of her motion picture success.

He came to power when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire.

Bede says that the spot where he died came to be associated with miracles, and people took dirt from the site, which led to a hole being dug as deep as a man's height.

The height of Arab rule came during the reign of Sultan Seyyid Said, who moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar, established a ruling Arab elite, and encouraged the development of clove plantations, using the island's slave labor.

And in the event that aspects of crisis management depended on contact with the critical man-on-the-spot, as it did in 1958 when Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy was dispatched to Lebanon to attempt to defuse the crisis, his instructions came from the Department of State and he reported to the Secretary of State rather than directly to the White House, as became the practice during the height of the Vietnam War.

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

The Riots came at the height of the American War of Independence with Britain fighting American rebels, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.

Most of the residents of the ` 50's and ` 60's came to work at either Aerojet, during the height of the space race, or were stationed at Mather Air Force Base.

Its transformation into a botanist's Eden began in the last quarter of the 19th century, reaching its height in the early decades of the 20th century with the influx of wealthy easterners who came to escape the rigors of east coast winters.

Home On the Range became Jeffrey City when those who came to mine uranium sought to honor Dr. C. W. Jeffrey, a wealthy doctor from Rawlins, Wyoming, who initially financed the costs for prospector and businessman Bob Adams to start the Western Nuclear Corporation mining firm and open a Uranium mine near the area in 1957, during the cold war and the height of uranium demand.

Later in the 19th century came the development of the modern ( Marcq St. Hilaire ) intercept method ; with this method the body height and azimuth are calculated for a convenient trial position, and compared with the observed height.

He came to the throne at the height of an economic boom in Navarre that was not happening elsewhere in Spain at as great a rate.

At its height it employed 2000 although this came to an abrupt end in 1907 when the company moved all operations to Coventry.

In the 16th and early 17th century, with the height of the Renaissance, several students came to Italy to study Italian architecture, such as Inigo Jones.

The latter game finished 2 – 0 with Roger Hunt getting both England goals, one of which came after Charlton, venturing forward to add height to the attack, hit the post with a header.

The tribunal came to the consensus that Neurath, though a willing and active participant in war crimes, held no such prominent position during the height of the Third Reich's tyranny and was therefore only a minor adherent to the atrocities committed.

At the height of the engagement a party of seven of the Hutt Militia came to the assistance of the hard-pressed troops, and fought side by side with the redcoats.

However, unbeknown to Lean, The Looking Glass War had hidden Jones ' short height and dubbed his high-pitched voice, and so Lean came to regret his casting decision for the role of the heroic, square-jawed Major.

Zona Mista came to dominate Italian football in the late 1970s and early 1980s and reached its height with the Italian national team in their victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

" They came from the sun with height advantage and I never saw them ", recalled later Sgt Frank Howell of No. 87 Squadron, Galland's first victim.

He wrote of the bomb producing a " pillar of purple fire ", out of the top of which came " a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar to a total of 45, 000 feet.

The height of the era came in 1877 when Rørosbanen connected Central Norway to the capital.

The Roman army battled first against its tribal neighbours and Etruscan towns within Italy, and later came to dominate much of the Mediterranean and further afield, including the provinces of Britannia and Asia Minor at the Empire's height.

The subsequent expansion of the empire is defended by these Athenians, "... the nature of the case first compelled us to advance our empire to its present height ; fear being our principal motive, though honor and interest came afterward.