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The non-electric telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe in 1794. but was later improved by Samuel Morse in 1836
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leanardo da vinci is often credited with the idea of the contact lens howevere it was not ubtill 1887 the a german by the name of F.E. Muller invented the first eye lens but was perfected in 1888 by adolfe fick
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the first electric motors were simple electrostatic devices created by the Scottish monk Andrew Gordon in the 1740s.The theoretical principle behind production of mechanical force by the interactions of an electric current and a magnetic field, Ampère's force law, was discovered later by André-Marie Ampère in 1820.
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In 1898, Rudolf Diesel was granted patent for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
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In a failed attempt at making a cereal of wheats, oats and cornmeal clusters, W.K. Kellogg, and his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, changed breakfast forever when they accidentally flaked wheat berries. W.K. kept experimenting until he flaked corn, and created the delicious recipe for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
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wilbur and orville wright were credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
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The earliest references for vertical flight have come from China. Since around 400 BC,Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys.The bamboo-copter is spun by rolling a stick attached to a rotor.
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A stapler is a mechanical device that joins sheets of paper or similar material.
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The first modern bra to receive a patent was the one invented in 1913 by a New York citzen called Mary Phelps Jacob.
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although the gas mask was already invented these were just for civillians and were not very good the first war ready gas mask was made in ww2 for english citizen infear of gas bombings
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fourtune cookies are dated as far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan and is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes
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thge band-aid was invented by Earle Dickson 1920
