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  2. Horseshoe - Wikipedia

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    In that period, due to the value of iron, horseshoes were even accepted in lieu of coin to pay taxes. [4] By the 13th century, shoes were forged in large quantities and could be bought ready made. [4] Hot shoeing, the process of shaping a heated horseshoe immediately before placing it on the horse, became common in the 16th century. [13]

  3. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1630: Slide rule: invented by William Oughtred [389] [390] 1642: Mechanical calculator. The Pascaline is built by Blaise Pascal. [391] 1643: Barometer: invented by Evangelista Torricelli, or possibly up to three years earlier by Gasparo Berti. [392] 1650: Vacuum pump: Invented by Otto von Guericke. [393] 1656: Pendulum clock: Invented by ...

  4. William Blake - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. English poet and artist (1757–1827) For other people named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation). William Blake Portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807) Born (1757-11-28) 28 November 1757 Soho, London, England Died 12 August 1827 (1827-08-12) (aged 69) Charing Cross, London ...

  5. Shoe - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.

  6. Henry Burden - Wikipedia

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    Henry Burden (April 22, 1791 – January 19, 1871) was an engineer and businessman who built an industrial complex in Troy, New York called the Burden Iron Works.Burden's horseshoe machine, invented in 1835, was capable of making 60 horseshoes a minute.

  7. Shoemaking - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut of shoemakers from Frankfurt am Main, 1568. Two shoemakers in Vietnam in 1923. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [citation needed]).

  8. Eli Whitney Blake - Wikipedia

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    His older brother, also named Elihu Blake, was the father of William Phipps Blake. [1] His sister, Maria Georgianna Blake, was married to Archibald Burgess. [2] He was a nephew of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. His maternal grandparents were Eli Whitney Sr., a prosperous farmer, and his wife Elizabeth (née Fay) Whitney.

  9. All Religions are One - Wikipedia

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    The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001) Bindman, David (ed.) The Illuminated Blake: William Blake's Complete Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary (Ontario: General Publishing Company, 1974; 2nd ed. 1992) ——— . (ed.) The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake (London ...