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Also known as a cast iron blowing cylinder, a tuyere is a tube, nozzle or pipe through which air is blown into a furnace or hearth.
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A multi-spindle spinning frame invented by James Hargreaves
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The steam engine was invented by James Watt. It was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum.
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Nicolas Appert, a French confectioner and brewer, observed that food cooked inside a jar did not spoil unless the seals leaked, and developed a method of sealing food in glass jars.
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It was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage. It was the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms.
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A French inventor, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took the first permanent photograph by a silver and chalk mixture that darkens under exposure to light.
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It is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial function invented by the same guy who invented the analytical engine, Charles Babbage.
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American artist-turned-inventor Samuel F. B. Morse conducted the first successful experiment with an electrical recording telegraph.
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The first effective local anesthetic was cocaine. It was first used by Karl Koller, at the suggestion of Sigmund Freud, in eye surgery in 1884
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Edison was the first to produce a device that could both record and reproduce sound. The first succsessful demonstration conducted was in 1877.
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The first practical pneumatic tire was made by Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop. Pneumatic tires are used on many types of vehicles, including cars, bicycles, motorcycles, trucks, earthmovers, and aircraft.
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