Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers.

This new perspective led to revolutionary advances across many areas of pure mathematics.

These advances brought to market many new containers and package designs.

Under the Han Dynasty, China made great advances in many areas of the arts and sciences.

Free from many of the elements that accompany science fiction in general — whether that be space aliens, giant robots, or laser guns — the series delegates itself towards presenting a world that is quite similar to our own albeit showcasing some technological advances.

The PDP-10 was widely used in university settings, and thus was the basis of many advances in computing and operating system design during the 1970s.

The publication of these standards formed the basis of future advances in standardisation in various industries, and in many countries the definitions were immediately recognised in relevant legislation.

Such advances made it possible for many industrial tasks that were previously driven by manual labour to be mechanized and driven by machinery to some extent in the medieval Islamic world.

Technological advances, most notably in high-resolution spectroscopy, led to the rapid detection of many new exoplanets: astronomers could detect exoplanets indirectly by measuring their gravitational influence on the motion of their parent stars.

For a given word there may often have been many serious attempts by scholars to propose etymologies based on the best information available at the time, and these can be later modified or rejected as linguistic scholarship advances.

Even today, knowledge in the field advances so rapidly that many of the etymologies in contemporary dictionaries are outdated.

He had made advances in the areas of analysis, foundations and logic, made many contributions to the teaching of calculus and also contributed to the fields of differential equations and vector analysis.

As he studied many scientific advances of biology, astronomy, geology, and physics, Lovecraft was more and more confounded and fueled his skepticism on humanity.

In many ways it was quite similar to modern machines, pioneering numerous advances, such as floating point numbers.

Industry in the sense of manufacturing became a key sector of production and labour in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, which upset previous mercantile and feudal economies through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the steel and coal production.

Recent advances in computing have made it possible to exploit many more features of the gravity fields of astronomical bodies and thus calculate even lower-cost trajectories.

While some of Euler's proofs are not acceptable by modern standards of mathematical rigour ( in particular his reliance on the principle of the generality of algebra ), his ideas led to many great advances.

These re-creators have been able to identify many of the advances that the Vikings implemented in order to make the longship a superior vessel.

As a result, many of the advances achieved by Leibniz were reachieved by logicians like George Boole and Augustus De Morgan completely independent of Leibniz.

Weber was ambivalent towards rationalisation ; while admitting it was responsible for many advances, in particular, freeing humans from traditional, restrictive and illogical social guidelines, he also criticised it for dehumanising individuals as " cogs in the machine " and curtailing their freedom, trapping them in the bureaucratic iron cage of rationality and bureaucracy.

For example, when playing the piano, " fingering " — that is, which fingers to put on which keys — is a skill slowly learned as the student advances, and there are many standard techniques which a teacher can pass on.

Kaplan's theology held that in light of the advances in philosophy, science, and history, it would be impossible for modern Jews to continue to adhere to many of Judaism's traditional theological claims.

These advances have meant that Usenet is used to send and receive many terabytes of files per day.

Sleepy, self-sufficient Paraguay, whose advances in agriculture and quality of life had been the envy of many in the Southern Cone, became the most backward nation in that subregion.

The large London porter breweries pioneered many technological advances, such as the use of the thermometer ( about 1760 ) and the hydrometer ( 1770 ).

Medicine was revolutionized in the 19th century and beyond by advances in chemistry and laboratory techniques and equipment, old ideas of infectious disease epidemiology were replaced with bacteriology and virology.

Non-Christian faiths have historically integrated well with scientific ideas, as in the ancient Egyptian technological mastery applied to monotheistic ends, the flourishing of logic and mathematics under Hinduism and Buddhism, and the scientific advances made by Muslim scholars during the Ottoman empire.

Some 250 – 300 French professionals from animation, effects, post-production and game development studios: SFX supervisors, head of studios, animators, technical directors, meet to share information and hear internationally renowned speakers on the latest advances and new ideas in entertainment technology.

Ultimately, the ideas of spontaneous generation were displaced by advances in germ theory and cell theory.

The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever growing middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.

Some organizations employ collaborative techniques that surface new ideas in the process leveraging advances in information technology.

Frederick the Great -- who ruled Prussia 1740 – 1786, was an enthusiast for French ideas ( he ridiculed German culture and was unaware of the remarkable advances it was undergoing ).

It had some whimsical aspects but there were also some very sound design ideas such as an original modular approach and attention to usually neglected ergonomic details like the change in light orientation as the day advances.

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A larger telescope would not only furnish the necessary gain in light space-penetration and photographic resolving power, but permit the application of ideas and devices derived chiefly from the recent fundamental advances in physics and chemistry.

Perhaps influenced by the ideas of Jung, or by the historian of religion, Mircea Eliade, with whom Séjourné maintained a correspondence, these books sketch a rather spiritualized image of king Quetzalcoatl and his legendary reign, referring to ' laws of interior preparation ' supposedly left by the Toltec king and to advances ' along the road to spirituality ' made possible by these.

Buenos Aires and Montevideo, who had a local rivalry, located in the La Plata Basin, had naval communications allowing them to be more in contact with European ideas and economic advances than the inland populations.

This gallery deals with current technology and scientific understanding, and how everyday life has been affected by scientific ideas and advances.

Egan also uses the hypothetical technological advances in Distress to explore ideas about anarchism, especially when its protagonist, Andrew Worth, a journalist, travels to the anarchistic man-made island named Stateless.

Factors such as advances in ideas, research, testing and development, along with the prospects of significant technological solutions, have driven the development of EBG applied science.

Many advances were made in scientific ideas, including the introduction of Arabic numerals and a sequence of improvements in the units used for measuring time.

The Disney animator's drawing skills learned at Chouinard were not only supportive to Walt Disney ’ s ideas concerning the future of animation, this collaboration between Chouinard's teaching and Disney's animators made possible numerous advances in Disney's animation style.

For example, Science fiction is expected to be set in the future, and has futuristic events, technological advances and futuristic ideas.

However they did catch up with key liberal ideas and began implementing some of these advances thought through their new demands for greater freedom in India.

Alternating policies of " interventionist " and " free market " ideas enabled the French to build a society in which both industrial and technological advances could be made but also worker security and privileges established and protected.

Having lived in the United States, he brought new ideas to the country, making huge advances for Bolivia in his emphasis on creating and restoring roadways, bridges, and city parks and gardens.

Recent advances in hierarchical Z-buffering have effectively incorporated ideas previously only used in deferred rendering, including the idea of being able to split a scene into tiles and of potentially being able to accept or reject tile sized pieces of polygon.

While technical advances have made much of the content obsolete, it contains valuable information and ideas for lighting several difficult interior and exterior setups and situations.