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Telescope was invented in Netherlands
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French mathematician Blaise Pascal invents the adding machine
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer
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Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute
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Frenchman Louis Daguerre created a better way to take pictures, called the Daguerreotype. Bicycles were also created in this year, by Kirkpatrick Macmillan
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The latter half of the nineteenth century became known as the second Industrial Revolution. Many inventions came into play which would change the way people lived. This was the period when a