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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 ...
The year 1890 in science and technology ... uniqueness and classifiability of individual human fingerprints. [2] Jacques Loeb publishes his first major work on ...
The concept of automated data processing had been born. In 1890, Herman Hollerith invented the mechanical tabulating machine, a design used during the 1890 Census which stored and processed demographic and statistical information on punched cards. [14] [15] 1890 Shredded wheat. Shredded wheat is a type of breakfast cereal made from whole wheat.
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; Timeline of United States inventions (after 1991), after the dissolution of the Soviet Union
Image credits: pnewell #9 An Experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle. In the mid-1960s to the late years of the 1970s, French engineers were looking to create new transportation machines that ...
The 24-year-old from Brooklyn was the first to use a new technology called digitalization to capture images. Four decades later, we carry his invention in our pockets on our phones. Courtesy of ...
1890 - The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, [31] [note 1] and the first major railway to use electric traction; 1893 - Recumbent bicycles invented. 1893 - first moving walkway debuted at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other. [1] "Sometimes", writes Merton, "the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before." [2]