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Jun 12, 1120
They invent the first windmills in Persia
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Jun 1, 1190
The Chinese use the magnetic compass. Francis Bacon declares it one fo the three great inventions of all time. Printing and gunpowder are the other two.
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Jun 1, 1490
Leonardo Da Vinci designs submarines, airplanes, bicycles and screw-cutting machines. His work illustrates the close links between science, art and engineering in the Renaissance.
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Dutch opticians develop the refracting telescope. Soon, Galileo uses it to disvoer the moons of Jupiter.
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Thomas Newcomer produces the first commercially viable atmospheric steam engine.
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German physicists Carl F. Ganss and Whihelm Weber develop the first electromagnetic telegraph
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
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Thomas Edison devises the carbon-filament electric lamp.
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British geneticist Alec Jeffreys develop DNA fingerprintig, based on the scientific analysis of an individual´s genetic makeup.
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The Chinese blend charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter to create indendiary mixtures. They develop gunpowder.