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Category: 17th-century inventions. 10 languages. ... 17th-century inventors (6 C, 1 P) I. Inventions by Christiaan Huygens (3 P) Pages in category "17th-century ...
4th century: Simple suspension bridge, independently invented in Pre-Columbian South America, and the Hindu Kush range, of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. With Han dynasty travelers noting bridges being constructed from 3 or more vines or 3 ropes. [308] Later bridges constructed utilizing cables of iron chains appeared in Tibet. [309] [310]
Many historians attribute baseball's origins to the English sports of stoolball and rounders as well as to the 18th and 19th century North American sports of Old Cat and Town ball, all early precursors to baseball. However, the bat-and-ball sports played in the United States, Europe, or elsewhere in the world prior to 1845 did not resemble the ...
17th-century Italian inventors (10 P) S. 17th-century Swedish inventors (2 P) Pages in category "17th-century inventors" This category contains only the following page.
3rd century BC: Archimedes relates problems in geometric series to those in arithmetic series, foreshadowing the logarithm. [46] 3rd century BC: Pingala in Mauryan India studies binary numbers, making him the first to study the radix (numerical base) in history. [47] 3rd century BC: Pingala in Mauryan India describes the Fibonacci sequence. [48 ...
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: 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
17th-century inventions (2 C, 9 P) 18th-century inventions (1 C, 20 P) 19th-century inventions (2 C, 114 P) 20th-century inventions (2 C, 127 P)
3 Inventions, discoveries, and introductions. 4 References. 5 Further reading. ... The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals ...