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  2. List of French inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Gothic art in the mid-12th century. [1]Ars nova: a musical style which flourished in the Kingdom of France and its surroundings during the Late Middle Ages.; Oboe, or hautbois, in the mid-17th century France, probably by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre and his family or by the Philidor family. [2]

  3. Category:French inventions - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "French inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 214 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

  4. Category:French inventors - Wikipedia

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    19th-century French inventors (142 P) 20th-century French inventors (91 P) 21st-century French inventors (4 P) L. Auguste and Louis Lumière (1 C, 14 P) W.

  5. Science and technology in France - Wikipedia

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    The first calculator by Blaise Pascal was made in 1642. [5] (see also Adding machine) Probability theory was developed by Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century (with Gerolamo Cardano and Christiaan Huygens). [6] France is home to 11 Fields Medalists, second only to the United States in number of Fields Medalists.

  6. Jacques Cousteau - Wikipedia

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    The CEA argued that the dumps were experimental in nature, and that French oceanographers such as Vsevolod Romanovsky had recommended it. Romanovsky and other French scientists, including Louis Fage and Jacques Cousteau, repudiated the claim, saying that Romanovsky had in mind a much smaller amount. The CEA claimed that there was little ...

  7. Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia

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    Blaise Pascal [a] (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.

  8. The Greatest American Inventions of the Past 50+ Years - AOL

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    From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.

  9. Montgolfier brothers - Wikipedia

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    To make a public demonstration and to claim its invention the brothers constructed a globe-shaped balloon of sackcloth tightened with three thin layers of paper inside. The envelope could contain nearly 790 m 3 (28,000 cu ft) of air and weighed 225 kg (496 lb). It was constructed of four pieces (the dome and three lateral bands) and held ...