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patented the first crude steam engine, based on Denis Papin's Digester or pressure cooker of 1679.
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The first sewing needles were made of bones or animal horns and the first thread was made of animal sinew.
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The history of the automobile begins as early as 1769, with the creation of steam engined automobiles capable of human transport.
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an English chemist, invented the first electric light. connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip betwween the other ends of the wires.
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The fundamental principles of television were initially developed using electromechanical methods to scan, transmit and reproduce an image.
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a great authority on optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera,
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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand.
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In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone).
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The first toothbrush was invented by William Addis
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The Altair also appealed to individuals and businesses that just wanted a computer and purchased the assembled version.