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THE HOMO ERECTUS DISCOVERED FIRE 790,000 YEARS AGO.
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AGRICULTURE BEGAN DURING THE NEOLITHIC, ABOUT 10,000 YEARS AGO. MAN LEARNED TO CULTIVATE THE EARTH.
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THE WHEEL EMERGED IN PREHISTORY, NEOLITHIC TIMES, AND THE OLDEST KNOWN WAS BUILT ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO IN MESOPOTAMIA.
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THE ALPHABET BEGAN IN EGYPT AROUND 2000 BC, WHEN THE WRITING WAS ALREADY OVER 1000 YEARS OLD.
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MEN WROTE ON STONES, SCROLLS AND PAPYRUS, TABLETS, UNTIL THE PAPER APPEARED. IT WAS INVENTED IN CHINA IN 105 AD BY TS'AI LUN.
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IN 1269, Pietro Peregrino de Maricourt drew and described the compass with a fixed needle.
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IN THE YEAR 1440 THE GERMAN JOHANNES GUTENBERG, CALLED "FATHER OF THE PRESS".
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THE MICROSCOPE WAS INVENTED BY ZACHARIAS JANSSEN IN 1590
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BELL, ALONG WITH THE AMERICAN ELISHA GRAY, WAS CONSIDERED FOR MANY YEARS THE INVENTOR OF THE TELEPHONE BUT IN REALITY HE DID NOT CREATE IT, BUT WAS THE FIRST TO PATENT IT, IN 1876. THE FATHER OF THE TELEPHONE WAS THE ITALIAN ANTONIO MEUCCI, WHO BAPTIZED IT AS TELEPHONE.
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THE LIGHT BULB. IN 1880 THOMAS EDISON, AFTER BUYING THE WOODWARD AND EVANS PATENT, PRESENTED A BULB WITH A BAMBOO FILAMENT THAT LASTED FOR 600 HOURS. THE FIRST TRULY COMMERCIAL MODEL IS BORN.
