Though these harmonicas produced a less distinctive ( and, to many ears, inferior ) sound than their metallic counterparts due to their plastic reeds, Magnus harmonicas, as well as several imitators, soon became commonplace, particularly among children.

Though Edison's recording technology was better than Berliner's, there were commercial advantages to a disc system since the disc could be easily mass produced by molding and stamping and it required less storage space for a collection of recordings.

Though the group itself was never signed to the label, they were managed by Russell Simmons, produced by Rick Rubin ( who was co-founder of Def Jam, along with Simmons ), and often shared concert tour spotlight with acts on the label's roster.

Though it did not chart as an album, it produced two singles which appeared on Billboard's Adult Contemporary radio chart.

Though metallic sodium has some important uses, the major applications of sodium use it in its many compounds ; millions of tons of the chloride, hydroxide, and carbonate are produced annually.

Though steel had been produced by various inefficient methods long before the Renaissance, its use became more common after more efficient production methods were devised in the 17th century.

Though Galileo is often said to be the inventor of the thermometer, what he produced were thermoscopes.

Though Vesalius ' work was not the first such work based on actual autopsy, nor even the first work of this era, the production values, highly detailed and intricate plates, and the fact that the artists who produced it were clearly present at the dissections themselves made it into an instant classic.

Though many varietal form of Chardonnay are produced, and the numbers are increasing, for most of its history in Italian winemaking Chardonnay was a blending grape.

" Though not as well remembered as the Cubist painters, these poets continue to influence and inspire ; American poets John Ashbery and Ron Padgett have recently produced new translations of Reverdy's work.

Though the Greeks had working planetaria, the first orrery that was a planetarium of the modern era was produced in 1704, and one was presented to the Earl of Orrery — whence the name came.

Though they are no longer produced, PCBs do not readily break down once they have been released into the environment.

Though a son of the rationalistic era which produced two of its most intense partisans, Peter Beer and Herz Homberg in his native city, Frankel developed, partly through opposition to shallow rationalism and partly through the romantic environments of the ancient city of Prague, that love and sympathy for the past that made him the typical expounder of the historical school which was known as the " Breslau school.

Though produced in Denmark, these Horace stories were written by Americans: Stefan Petrucha, Sarah Kinney, and Don Markstein.

Though a relatively obscure character in the United States, Rockerduck is an example of a character who has become notable in the foreign market, particularly in stories produced for the Italian market.

Though able to penetrate deeper in the brain, they are less able to produced a focused, localized response and are relatively non-focal.

Though the music produced by free jazz composers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s.

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

Though the Silver Age is famous mostly for its poetry, it produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely, though most of them wrote poetry as well as prose.

Though now produced by The Hershey Company, the York Peppermint Pattie was created in York in 1940.

Though the dominant Hanna-Barbera Productions launched a phenomenon with the 1981 premiere of The Smurfs on NBC, very little else which they produced in this decade caught on.

Though he did succeed in creating a cool glowing cloud by mixing crude phosphine and natural gas, the color of the light was green and it produced copious amounts of acrid smoke.

Though this recognized the primitive methods of earth-moving available at the time, it meant that his canals were often much longer than a more adventurous approach would have produced.

) Though the team failed to save the title, which ended its initial run with # 66 ( March 1970 ), the collaboration here and on the " Kree-Skrull War " arc of The Avengers # 93-97 ( Nov. 1971-May 1972 ) produced what comics historians regard as some of Marvel's creative highlights of the era.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

Though there is obviously nothing new about these techniques, they do challenge the worker's skill to articulate them precisely on the spot and on the basis of quick and accurate diagnostic assessments.

Though the accused raised many other objections, he did not object on this crucial point at any stage of the proceedings.

Though President John F. Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved him in other key problems of U.S. foreign policy last week.

Though he was glad she got on well with his young folks, she ought to be welcome at the finest house in the land, too.

Though such works as Coming of Age in Samoa and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword remain popular with the American public, Mead and Benedict never had the impact on the discipline of anthropology that some expected.

Though the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society.

Though Carrel was skeptical about meeting with a priest Presse ended up having a profound influence on the rest of Carrel's life.

Though aware of the plot, Agrippina embarked on this boat and was nearly crushed by a collapsing lead ceiling only to be saved by the side of a sofa breaking the ceiling's fall.

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

Though there might be blocs of opinion, sometimes enduring, on important matters, there were no political parties and likewise no government or opposition ( as in the Westminster system ).

Though both ended up as rogue governments and did not follow through on their constitutional promises, they began as responses from the Athenian elite to what they saw as the inherent arbitrariness of government by the masses ( Plato in the Seventh Epistle does remark that the Thirty made the preceding democratic regime look like a Golden Age ).

Though usually observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season.

Though from vastly different backgrounds, within three months Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell were married on 29 December 1812.

Though respected for their contributions to various academic disciplines ( respectively mathematics, linguistics, and literature ), the three men became known to the general public only by making often-controversial and disputed pronouncements on politics and public policy that would not be regarded as noteworthy if offered by a medical doctor or skilled tradesman.

Though Thomas was confirmed and took a seat on the Court, Hill's testimony focused national attention on the issue of workplace sexual harassment.

" Though already an apostle, Apollos was open to instruction on a fine point of Christian doctrine.

Though Anthony himself did not organize or create a monastery, a community grew around him based on his example of living an ascetic and isolated life.

Though only a minority of the population, the movement rebelled on Sunday 7 December, the day after the news of the coup arrived.

Though there is some debate on the exact mechanism of conjugation it seems that the pili are not the structures through which DNA exchange occurs.

Though his recordings sold well, he was not so influential on some younger blues singers of his generation, who could not imitate him as they could other commercially successful artists.

Though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is based, Christians share a set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith.