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  2. Cypro-Minoan syllabary - Wikipedia

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    The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading partners during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (c. 1550–1050 BC).

  3. Theodore Maiman - Wikipedia

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    Maiman and his father Abe. Maiman was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family. Abraham "Abe" Maiman, an electrical engineer [10] and inventor, and Rose Abramson. At a young age his family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he helped his father with experimentation in a home electronics laboratory.

  4. 1878 – Thomas Edison, following work on a "multiplex telegraph" system and the phonograph, invents an improved incandescent light bulb. This was not the first electric light bulb but the first commercially practical incandescent light. In 1879 he produces a high-resistance lamp in a very high vacuum; the lamp lasts hundreds of hours. While ...

  5. Cypro-Minoan (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Version Final code points [a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 14.0: U+12F90..12FF2: 99: L2/16-089: N4715: Everson, Michael (2012-04-25), Proposal to encode the Cypro-Minoan script in the SMP

  6. Michael Sendivogius - Wikipedia

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    Michael Sendivogius (/ ˌ s ɛ n d ɪ ˈ v oʊ dʒ i ə s /; Polish: Michał Sędziwój; 2 February 1566 – 1636) was a Polish alchemist, philosopher, and physician.A pioneer of chemistry, he developed ways of purifying and creating various acids, metals, and other chemicals.

  7. Thomas Young (scientist) - Wikipedia

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    In Young's own judgment, of his many achievements the most important was to establish the wave theory of light set out by Christiaan Huygens in his Treatise on Light (1690). [33] [34] To do so, he had to overcome the century-old view, expressed in the venerable Newton's Opticks, that light is a particle. Nevertheless, in the early 19th century ...

  8. Linear A - Wikipedia

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    Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization.

  9. Prehistoric Cyprus - Wikipedia

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    They discovered that Neolithic Cypriots genetically clustered with Neolithic Anatolians. Two main clusters emerge: an “Eastern Mediterranean” Anatolian/Levantine cluster that also includes the geographically intermediate individuals from Cyprus, and an “inland” Zagros-Caucasus-Mesopotamia-Armenia-Azerbaijan cluster.