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  2. 50 Inventions From The Past That Were Amazingly Innovative - AOL

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    Image credits: Isabella Thornton #2 An Early Motorised Scooter. The Autoped was an early vision of today's scooters. This was a personal transport system originally developed in 1915.

  3. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...

  4. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1983: Kary Mullis invents the polymerase chain reaction, a key discovery in molecular biology; 1986: Karl Müller and Johannes Bednorz: Discovery of High-temperature superconductivity; 1988: Bart van Wees and colleagues at TU Delft and Philips Research discovered the quantized conductance in a two-dimensional electron gas.

  5. Category:Lists of inventions or discoveries - Wikipedia

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    List of Indian inventions and discoveries; List of Indonesian inventions and discoveries; List of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilisation; List of inventions named after people; List of inventors killed by their own invention; Timeline of Irish inventions and discoveries; List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world

  6. 7 Asian Americans whose discoveries changed the world - AOL

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    Mitra's invention is the first use case of nanoparticles in dental filling material. The chemist was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018. Story editing by Carren Jao.

  7. History of technology - Wikipedia

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    Other Chinese discoveries and inventions from the Medieval period include block printing, movable type printing, phosphorescent paint, endless power chain drive and the clock escapement mechanism. The solid-fuel rocket was invented in China about 1150, nearly 200 years after the invention of gunpowder (which acted as the rocket's fuel).

  8. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    Many years later, Evans' invention would be sold off for parts. On July 16, 2005, Philadelphia celebrated the 200th anniversary of Oliver Evans's Orukter Amphibolos. Many historians describe Oliver Evans' invention as the United States' first land and water transporter. [46] 1805 Vapor-compression refrigeration. Schematic of Gorrie's 1841 ice ...

  9. List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Merton contrasted a "multiple" with a "singleton"—a discovery that has been made uniquely by a single scientist or group of scientists working together. [5] The distinction may blur as science becomes increasingly collaborative. [6] A distinction is drawn between a discovery and an invention, as discussed for example by Bolesław Prus. [7]