The Egyptians excelled in such applied sciences as medicine, engineering, and surveying; in Mesopotamia greater progress was made in astronomy and mathematics.
In subsequent years great progress was made in explaining the periodic law in terms of the electronic structure of atoms and molecules.
Aiming methods were inadequate, however, and in the interwar decades great progress was made in the development of range finders, searchlights, time fuzes, and gunlaying mechanisms to help artillery pieces hit the rapidly moving targets presented by aircraft.
During the last third of the 18th century it became government policy to Westernize Japanese medicine, and great progress was made in the foundation of medical schools and the encouragement of research.
In the last decade, great progress was made in the development of small satellites and CubeSats.
As a consequence, great progress was made in association with the World War II effort and this continued through until the 1960's, and was a time when Australia was at the forefront of international STP research.
During that period, great progress was made in measuring, understanding, and modeling the highly variable UV-Soft X-ray (XUV) solar spectral irradiance (SSI), and its effects on the upper atmosphere.
Great progress was made in the therapies of type II EC, but its 5-year survival rate is still less than 15%.
Along with major advances in canine genomics, great progress was made in identifying the olfactory receptor genes that are associated with dogs' excellent smell-discriminating ability.
Great progress was made after introduction of antimicrobial therapy with improved microbiologic culture techniques, particularly for anaerobes, and stereotactic brain biopsy and aspiration techniques.
