Assertion: automation | /r/CapableOf | spread in laboratory
Facets:
value: steadily
type: MANNER
value: through the 20th century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Automation steadily spread in laboratories through the 20th century, but then a revolution took place: in the early 1980s, the first fully automated laboratory was opened by Dr. Masahide Sasaki.