Chinese companies and local government officials are determined to climb the value chain so they will not fall into obsolescence.
Perhaps this is why it fell into obsolescence – the instrument simply didn't fit with most other 18th-century instruments.
But invincibility led to complacency, and by the 20th century New York's defense system had fallen into obsolescence.
Unconvinced, I checked several online booksellers, and, sure enough, no current print edition was available.* I grabbed a copy from the library, and as I plunged into it I realized just how sadly appropriate it was that the book had fallen into obsolescence.
He describes his work as an attempt "to convey the significance of places and processes, once marvels of their time, that have now fallen into obsolescence" and yet remain vital to the few people left who employ these methods and purchase these goods.
Meanwhile, beginning in the late 1880s, Brazil's navy fell into obsolescence after an 1889 revolution, which deposed Emperor Dom Pedro II, and a 1893 civil war.
Main articles: South American dreadnought race and Minas Geraes-class battleship Beginning in the late 1880s, Brazil's navy fell into obsolescence, a situation exacerbated by an 1889 revolution, which deposed Emperor Dom Pedro II, and an 1893 civil war.
Wars between nation states, a constant of history for centuries, have continued their fall into obsolescence: no more than three in any year since 1945, none in most years since 1989, and none since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
By the mid-2000s, the scoreboard had fallen into a state of disrepair and obsolescence, and was only marginally functional.
Facilities fell into disuse.
