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Well, this might suprise you. The first computer was actually originally envisioned in 1834 by Charles Babbage. It was not a...
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Heron of Alexandria invented a steam powered rotating ball in Circa 100 AD. This is the first recorded steam power. Thomas...
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The only problems with the telephone were some technical difficulties
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What we know as the modern bicycle was not invented until the 1860's, but there were earlier types of inventions that resembled...
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Are you an Idiot? No you must allow bedroom fires to burn.
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the first gramophone was made in england in 1934
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William Friese-Green, an englishman from Bristol invented the first moving image camera.
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Experiments in the early 20th century could not be explained by classical physics (developed by Galileo, Newton, etc.). ...
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He didn't come up with it. The idea had been around since at least 1844, and probably before that. The history of the invention...
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Gregor Mendel is known for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. this is were he stoped he also showed...
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THE iron plow was invented to help the cotton production increase. That's baloney. Iron plows helped produce more food. The...
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Computers
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There are many inventions from Albanian scientists. I think the most popular one, is the anti rust paint for metal. This is a...
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1. It has not higher output 2. It is not possible to use this everywhere
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Answerelectricity was never invented. it has always been there. it is said that Benjamin Franklin discoved electricity. if he...
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David N. Mullany from Fairfield, Connecticut.
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Energy If you do not already know, Energy Cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another, as...
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Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep. This is for use of a fire extinguisher. Pull the pin, aim at the base of the fire, squeeze the handle...
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Basically the task were performed in three ways. Either manually which obviously took forever. In Asia, the abacus ruled. In...
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German, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first gas-engined motorcycle in 1885. These "motorcycles" were ordinary pedal bikes with...
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Englishman Alan Turing the "Father of modern computer science" provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the...
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NuvaRing was first approved in The Netherlands on February 14, 2001, then by all 14 other countries then in the European Union on...
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charles goodyear
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L.E. Waterman of New York designed the first workable fountain pen in 1884. Lazlo Biro patented the first ballpoint pen in 1938....
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Bells successes include: the audiograph for detecting deafness. the photophone (a device used for transmitting sound via light)...
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In the US and Canada, when you say "the pickle", you are usually talking about a pickled cucumber. There is no historical...
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Well, there are mainly two types of existing braking systems, the drum brake and the disk brake. lets have a look at both their...
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Offset printing was invented in 1875 by Robert Barclay, but his invention was for printing on tin, not paper.Offset lithography...
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Charles P Strite, an American inventor, invented the pop-up bread toaster in 1921.
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A doctor by the name of Charles Browne Fleet invented lip balm, but he couldn't make it sell. He sold the recipe to a guy named...
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The first person to invent the monitor was Allen B. DuMont in the year 1920.
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John Fitch was first thought up and make it but Robert Fulton redesigned it and made it more popular
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Yes he was the first one to invent a synthetic plastic called cellulose and a man made one called parkensine
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The main difference of the Chinese compass with the existing compass today is that the former makes use of ferrites or magnetic...
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it was named after dr. ramon hector juan jesus gelpi at swedish hospital in seattle washington in 1851
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Fireworks came from China and are made of gunpowder. Marco Polo brought back gunpowder and fireworks to Italy when he returned...
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A patent is obtained by filing an application with a fee, having it examined, responding to any objections the examiner has...
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The guitar's roots are in Spain. It was the spaniard Antonio Torres invented it. Did you know the instrument is over 5000 years...
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In the late 1920s the Voit Sporting Goods Company developed and patented the first full-molded, all-rubber inflatable ball and...
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It caused a REVOLUTION.
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The ammonia clock was the first atomic clock invented by the US National Bureau of Standards in 1948 that measured the speed of...
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Tornadoes normally rotate cyclonically in direction:- counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere- clockwise in the southern...
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Hosiery was first introduced in the Renaissance period in Northern and Central Europe by barbarians. They didn't gain popularity,...
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You can google his name and find lots of resources.
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The iPod was announced on October 23, 2001 and released in November. The iPod took less then a year to construct and became a...
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The first rockets were invented in China sometime between the 9th and 13th centuries (A.D). These were black powder rockets that...
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I can't answer your question exactly, but the company that invented it is Organon, and it first received FDA approval in 2001, so...
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In 1806 Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated an electric light. This arc lamp produced a blinding electric spark between...
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Tesla invented the alternating-current generator that provides your light and electricity, the transformer through which it is...
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Computers were originally intended to do just what they do today...perform calculations automatically. It was felt that such an...
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AnswerThe first keyboard was invented in 1868 by Christopher Sholes.
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1906 Germany launches U-1, the first U-Boat (for Unterseeboot). This modified Karp was 139 feet long, displaced 239 tons, and...
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Eli Whitney invented the milling machine. Baron Karl Drais von Sauerbronn invented the earliest bicycle that could be steered.
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George Eastman (1854-1932) invented a practical roll form of photographic film in 1884 , and founded the Eastman Kodak company....
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The short answer to the question is the capacitive reactance of a capacitor in a DC circuit is infinite. In a DC circuit,...
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Anonymous or a Traceless Biometric System (TBS) is a fuzzy mathematical method for identifying an individual through a biometric...
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Made routes shorter therefore save a lot of valuable time. It was also important because they could use them to transport goods...
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In July of 1980, IBM representatives met for the first time with Microsoft's Bill Gates to talk about writing an operating system...
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Invention of the Nail From bookrags.com;"The earliest nails were probably made in the Middle-East about 5,000 years ago. Metal...
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Total Number of Aircraft Produced WorldwideThere is no legal way of knowing this, unfortunately. However, there are likely...
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Science is knowing, technology is doing. Answer Science can broadly be defined as the study of "things" such as: Chemistry,...
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The kaleidoscope is a tube of mirrors containing loose coloured beads or pebbles, or other small coloured objects. The viewer...
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Transmitter: a high voltage spark transmitter that emitted wideband radio noise. It was only useful for Morse Code telegraph...
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Christian Doppler discovered the Doppler effect in 1842. He observed that the frequency of sound changes as the object of the...
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A Target Parachute It is doubtful and very dangerous to think that a thousand Target bags would operate in the same manner as a...
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No, from Earth there is no particular date when you have to schedule a Moon launch, but you may want to pick a period in the...
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"Computers" have been around for a very, very long time. But the definition of what makes something a computer has changed a...
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The term "Fluorescent" dates back to approximately 1845-1852 where the English mathematician-physicist George Gabriel Stokes from...
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In mechanics, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by pressure applied to...
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In Britain, the Apothecaries Act of 1815 and the Medical Regulation Act of 1853 were both passed to decrease unlicensed medical...
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Ernest Rutherford, in 1919, was the first to split an atom, though it was nitrogen, and thus there was no power generation or...
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The camera offers a quick, and accurate depiction of things in life. Just think where we would be without cameras! Without...
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Much of Baton Twirling's history is simply hearsay or educated guesses. It has varying stories of how the sport was...
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E85 is an alcohol fuel mixture that typically contains a mixture of up to 85% denatured fuel ethanol and gasoline or other...
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Beef jerky is thought to have originated in South America during the 1800s. The Quechua tribe, who were ancestors of the ancient...
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Answerthat might be true but the first digital old or black and white camera was the minaki 3000 from japan it is now probably...
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1824 by Nicholas Von Dreyse. but the first ones used a lot were made around 1885.
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In the "War of Currents", George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries due to Edison's promotion of direct current...
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Blue Jeans He saw a need for pants that would stand up to the hard work in the gold fields and had a large supply of sail...
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Most of the time, what we call taste is intrinsicially tied to smell. Traditionally taste has only 4 measurable concepts: salty,...
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Biology is essentially the study of living things. It is split into several different types: Botany: The study of plants. These...
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Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute invented the wheel-based mouse in 1963. The first ball-based mouse was...
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A mid 19th C surgeon in Edinborough, Scotland did the first oopherectomy. His name was Thomas L. Keith. He is my best guess for...
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