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1701: Seed drill improved by Jethro Tull (1674–1741). 18th century: of the horse-drawn hoe and scarifier by Jethro Tull [2][3][4] 1780s: Selective breeding and artificial selection pioneered by Robert Bakewell (1725–1795). [5] 1842: Superphosphate or chemical fertilizer developed by John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900).
List of Canadian inventions, innovations, and discoveries. Timeline of chemistry. Cheshire inventions, innovations and firsts. List of Chinese discoveries. List of Chinese inventions. List of inventions and discoveries of Neolithic China. Timeline of cosmological theories. List of Croatian inventions and discoveries.
1886: Charles Martin Hall and independently Paul Héroult invent the Hall–Héroult process for economically producing aluminum in 1886. 1886: Karl Benz invents the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile (car). [ 440 ] 1887: Carl Josef Bayer invents the Bayer process for the production of alumina.
Paint roller – invented by Norman James Breakey of Toronto in 1940 [7][18] Robertson screw – invented by Peter L. Robertson in 1908. Rotary vane pump – invented by Charles Barnes and patented in 1874. Toggling harpoon – an Inuit tool used by Inuit while whale or seal hunting to impale the animal when thrown.
1971: Place cells in the brain are discovered by John O'Keefe. 1974: Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discover indirect evidence for gravitational wave radiation in the Hulse–Taylor binary. 1977: Frederick Sanger sequences the first DNA genome of an organism using Sanger sequencing.
Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century. Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II. Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War. Timeline of United States inventions (after 1991), after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
e. The Netherlands and its people have made contributions to the arts, science, technology and engineering, economics and finance, cartography and geography, exploration and navigation, law and jurisprudence, thought and philosophy, medicine. and agriculture. The following list is composed of objects, (largely) unknown lands, breakthrough ideas ...
Painting on papyrus. Tapestry: The earliest known tapestry weave pieces using linen were found in the tombs of both Thutmose IV (d. 1391 or 1388 BC) and Tutankhamen (c. 1323 BC), the latter a glove and a robe. [196] Watercolor paper: Painting on Papyrus was invented in Ancient Egypt long before the invention of Paper.