Until the advent of rational empiricism the controlling habits of the western mind were symbolic and allegoric.

Until the advent of the NICAM and MTS systems, television sound transmissions were invariably monophonic.

Until the advent of artillery and aircraft, battles were fought with the two sides within sight, if not reach, of each other.

Until the advent of digital catalogues, card catalogue s were the traditional method of organizing the list of resources and their location within a large library

Until the advent of the Trans-Am series in 1967, NASCAR homologation cars were the closest thing that the public could buy that was actually very similar to the cars that were winning the national races.

Until the advent of programmable logic, discrete bipolar logic was used to prototype and emulate microarchitectures under development.

Until the advent of light weight modern sailcloth and modern sail handling systems, the larger sails of a sloop were somewhat of a disadvantage.

Until the advent of vinyl around the 1940s, most gramophone records were pressed from shellac compounds.

Until the advent of the hollow-base Minié ball, which obturates upon firing to seal the bore and engage the rifling, the patch provided the best means of getting the projectile to engage the rifling.

Until the advent of OS X v10. 4, the standard UNIX command line utilities in OS X ( such as and ) did not respect resource forks.

Until the recent advent of non-invasive medical techniques, brain surgery was the preferred way for language researchers to discover how language works in the brain.

Until the advent of the Supremes, the sisters were the most imitated of all female singing groups and influenced many artists, including Mel Tormé, Les Paul and Mary Ford, The Four Freshmen, The McGuire Sisters, The Manhattan Dolls, The Lennon Sisters, The Pointer Sisters, The Manhattan Transfer, The Puppini Sisters, Barry Manilow, and Bette Midler who scored her first # 1 hit with her 1973 remake of " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy ".

Until the early 1990s, advertising on television had only been affordable for large companies willing to make a significant investment, but the advent of desktop video allowed many small and local businesses to produce television ads for airing on local cable TV services.

Until the advent of computer-based random access non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) in the early 1990s " linear video editing " was simply called " video editing ".

Until the advent of genetic techniques like DNA sequencing, comparative anatomy together with embryology were the primary tools for understanding phylogeny, as exemplified by the work of Alfred Romer.

Until the advent of iron, bronze was the most advanced metal for tools and weapons in common use ( see Bronze Age for more detail ).

' Until its advent, one might waver emotionally or doubt intellectually or even reject the cause altogether in one's mind, and yet refuse to attack it.

Until the advent of more modern fiction, pixie mythology was localized to Britain.

Until the advent of quantum mechanics, the only well known example of gauge symmetry was in electromagnetism, and the general significance of the concept was not fully understood.

Until the advent of the automobile, factory workers lived either close to the factory or in high density communities farther away, connected to the factory by streetcar or rail.

Until the advent of inexpensive audio tape recorders, the sharing of copyrighted recordings was very difficult and expensive.

Until the advent of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government, the precursor to the Scotland Office, the Scottish Office, was a major UK government department dealing with most aspects of the domestic governance of Scotland, a position known as " administrative devolution ".

Until the advent of commercial recording technology, Inuit music was usually used in spiritual ceremonies to ask the spirits ( see Inuit mythology ) for good luck in hunting or gambling, as well as simple lullabies.

Until the advent of computer controlled drive mechanisms, the standard solution was some form of equatorial mount, and for small telescopes this is still the norm.

Until internal combustion became cheap, he had to be near a railroad siding and a trolley line or an existing large community of lower-class homes.

Until 1909 it was without railroad facilities, and the nearest shipping points were Colorado City on the south and still later the railroad towns in Fisher County on the east.

Until the third decade of the Twentieth Century Gridley had been a railroad town ; in the early 1920s six passenger trains in both directions served the town.

Until 1960s, Tracy was a highly active railroad town on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway as a concentration point for numerous branchlines in the area serving heavy agriculture.

Until the mid 20th century, the railroad station and Main Street were the town center.

Until the late 1960s, Tamaqua was a hub of railroad activity, namely the Reading Company ( RDG ) and Lehigh & New England ( LNE ).

Until late 1980s, it used to be a local railroad junction, with four lines stemming from Ostrołęka railway station-eastwards to Łapy and Białystok, southwestwards to Tłuszcz and Warsaw, northwards to Wielbark and Olsztyn, and southwards to Małkinia.

Until the intersection with West Edsall Boulevard, the route was paralleling local railroad tracks one block away, now following more residential homes.

Until recently the mountains formed a barrier between the two parts of Thailand-only the railroad from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima and one highway crossed the massif.

Until the 1970s, a branch railroad linked Qishan with the main north-south railway.

Until the 1970s, Bicas had a full-working train station and an active RFFSA ( the extinct state railroad company ) branch for repairing wagons.

Until around 1965 RF & P originated less than 5 % of its freight tonnage, probably less than any other Class I railroad.

Until the Khmer Rouge disrupted neighbouring Cambodia in 1975, Aranyaprathet was a stop on the railroad connecting Bangkok with the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

Until 1961 Lehigh Valley Railroad ( LV ) passenger trains bound to / from Pennsylvania Railroad's station in Manhattan, such as the Black Diamond, used the connection to reach their own railroad from the PRR main line.

Until around 1963 it was a Class I railroad ; in 1967 it reported 131 million ton-miles of revenue freight on 77 miles of railroad.

Until recently, all of Saint Petersburg Metro escalators as well as those for all the underground railroad systems of the former Soviet Union were made since the 1950s at a local facility called Zavod " Eskalator ", now known as LATRES ( Rus.

Until his death in 1848, Muhammad Ali Pasha instituted a number of social and economic reforms that earned him the title of founder of modern Egypt.

Until 1848 he remained on friendly terms with the German communists, occasionally calling himself a communist and writing articles on communism in the Schweitzerische Republikaner.

Until 1848, La Luz was a part of Mexico.

Until the perfect fusion of 1848, the Kingdom of Sardinia was formed by different constituent countries.

Until 1849, the Catholic Church was not allowed to purchase any land, or establish any parishes in the Eastern Townships due to English Protestant laws and control At the initiative of Father Bernard O ' Reilley, an Association des Townships was set up in 1848 to promote settlement in the area.

Until 1848, the confederation did not have a coat of arms of its own.

Until this period Rousseau had lived only occasionally at Barbizon, but in 1848 he took up his residence in the forest village, and spent most of his remaining days in the vicinity.

* The Sydney Morning Herald ( 1 October 1949 ) " Tree Marks A Tragedy And Solves A Mystery: Until this tree was discovered no evidence of the route taken by Edmund Kennedy on his expedition of 1848 had ever been found "

Until 1848, Cowdery put the Latter Day Saint church behind him.

Until 1 July 1848 the London terminus was, thereafter it was Waterloo which was called " Waterloo Bridge station " until 1886.

Until 1848, the village was part of the Batsch-Bodrog County within the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary.