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The oldest known wheel found in an archaeological excavation is from Mesopotamia and dates to around 3500 BC. This period was known as the Bronze Age.
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Egyptians had developed a technique for making paper from the pith of the papyrus plant, a common sight along the bank of the Nile. Long strips were woven together and weighted down to bind them into a strong, thin sheet.
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The history of the theorem can be divided into four parts: knowledge of Pythagorean triples, knowledge of the relationship among the sides of a right triangle, knowledge of the relationships among adjacent angles, and proofs of the theorem within some deductive system.
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There was 3 different types of roads that the ancient romans engineered. Terrena: a plain road leveled earth. Glareata: an earthed road with a graveled surface. Munita: a regual built road, paived with rectangular blocks of the stone of the country, or with polygonal blocks of lava.
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He was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a day.
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Scholar Andreas Vesalius demonstrated mistakes in Galen's ideas. Vesalius dissected human corpses, whereas Galen dissected animal corpses. Published in 1543, Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica was a groundbreaking work of human anatomy. It emphasized the priority of dissection and what has come to be called the "anatomical" view of the body, seeing human internal functioning as an essentially corporeal structure filled with organs arranged in three-dimensional space.
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John Napier introduced logarithms as a powerful mathematical tool. With the help of Henry Briggs their logarithmic tables embodied a computational advance that made calculations by hand much quicker. His Napier's bones used a set of numbered rods as a multiplication tool using the system of lattice multiplication. The way was opened to later scientific advances, particularly in astronomy and dynamics.
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The fundamental theorem of calculus relates differentiation and integration, showing that these two operations are essentially inverses of one another. Before the discovery of this theorem, it was not recognized that these two operations were related. Isaac Newton completed the development of the surrounding mathematical theory.
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Newton developed the theory of gravitation. The force of attraction between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. In 1679, Newton began to consider gravitation and its effect on the orbits of planets with reference to Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
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The invention of the bifocal glasses was discovered by Benjamin Franklin in the 1700s. It was important because it let people read and see far away.
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The Lowell system was first used in the Waltham and Lowell textile mill and was invented by Mr. Francis Cabot Lowell in 1814. The system was designed so that every step of the manufacturing process was done under one roof. The system was also water driven from the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Gladys West was put in charge of a project called Seasat, an experimental ocean surveillance satellite designed to provide data on a wide array of oceanographic conditions and features, including wave height, water temperature, currents, winds, icebergs, and coastal characteristics. She then started a new project called GEOSAT, this led to satellite programming to create a computer model of the earth’s surface