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  2. Karl Drais - Wikipedia

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    Drais also invented the earliest typewriter with a keyboard (1821). He later developed an early stenograph machine which used 16 characters (1827), a device to record piano music on paper (1812), the first meat grinder (1840s), and a wood-saving cooker including the earliest hay chest .

  3. List of English inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.

  4. Running - Wikipedia

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    Running can assist people in losing weight, staying in shape and improving body composition. Research suggests that the person of average weight will burn approximately 100 calories per mile run. [61] Running increases one's metabolism, even after running; one will continue to burn an increased level of calories for a short time after the run. [62]

  5. Dandy horse - Wikipedia

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    Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...

  6. 1748 in science - Wikipedia

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    The year 1748 in science and technology involved some significant events. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  7. Clockwork - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known example of a clockwork set-up is the Antikythera mechanism.This device functioned as a geared analogue computer after its creation during the first-century BCE timeframe, being somewhat astrolabe-like, and had been designed for calculating astronomical positions and particularly listing eclipses.

  8. History of the automobile - Wikipedia

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    The Ford Model T (foreground) and Volkswagen Beetle (background) are among the most mass-produced car models in history.. Crude ideas and designs of automobiles can be traced back to ancient and medieval times.

  9. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Pre-industrial machinery was built by various craftsmen—millwrights built watermills and windmills; carpenters made wooden framing; and smiths and turners made metal parts. Wooden components had the disadvantage of changing dimensions with temperature and humidity, and the various joints tended to rack (work loose) over time.