"successive development" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of gradually making something better or more advanced over time. For example, "The company has achieved success through successive development of its products."
Intra-platform shoals show successive development characteristics from Penglaiba to Yingshan Formations.
Under his regime, successive development plans were inspired, according to Tsiranana, by a "grassroots socialism" and were aimed at improving the lot of the peasantry.
Successive development on this burner research is important in view of the need to create energy by an efficient device based on simple technology.
However, the influence of organism traits in combination with physical factors (e.g. hydrodynamics, sediments) on early establishment and successive development due to scale-dependent feedbacks is still unclear.
The hypothesis that lugworm activities inhibit the successive development from sandy to muddy sediments in depositional embayments has been tested by a large-scale exclusion field experiment.
Besides, turbulent mixing between the basal dense layer and the ambient air is enhanced by the successive development of an interfacial less-dense layer.
With the Danish physicist Niels Bohr's quantum theory of the hydrogen atom (1913) began an understanding of the basis of Balmer's formula; thenceforward spectroscopic evidence underpinned successive developments toward what is now a successful theory of atomic structure.
Wall paintings demonstrate close contact with Constantinople; those at Asinou, in particular, are noteworthy as being the earliest of an unparalleled series of mural paintings showing successive developments of Byzantine art.
In the beginning, Benedict's papacy looked promising; but successive developments, including certain moments of tension, were intentionally provoked against the church.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic --and what better way than through the steps of understanding?
The second dimension of the separation was done by two successive developments in chloroform:diethylether (90 10).
