The wide-scale use of fossil fuels, coal at first and petroleum later, to fire steam engines, enabled the Industrial Revolution.

The system was the first wide-scale use of lake source cooling in North America.

Mr. Salas said the wide-scale use of that technology is about 10 years away.

The wide-scale use of isolation is, almost exclusively, a phenomenon of the past twenty years.

After its introduction, dynamite rapidly gained wide-scale use as a safe alternative to gunpowder and nitroglycerin.

The company is also already discussing the wide-scale use of Hythane engines with the Indian government.

This project was the first wide-scale use of rubblization equipment.

The 2011 Federal Election was the first Canadian federal election with wide-scale use of social media.

In addition, the semantic web approach is still considered an emerging technology and is not in wide-scale use at this time.

Some computer executives say the service has not yet been designed for wide-scale use and therefore may have been introduced too early.