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74Land of Invented Languages
I recently read a book published earlier this year: In the Land of Invented Languages, by Arika Okrent (Spiegel & Grau, New York 2009). In general, there seems to be two main attitudes to "artificial"...
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77Great Inventions: Frances Gabe's Self-Cleaning House
I've often wondered just what I could have achieved in my life were it not for all of the hours of house-cleaning I feel compelled to do. Interestingly, I logged in way more cleaning hours pre-kids than...
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77John Napier
John Napier, Laird of Merchiston, was born in Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1550. Logarithms is the greatest of his invention. he began working on his computational method a early as 1594.
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77When was the Telephone Invented?
The telephone, or the germ of the idea, goes back to the string telephone every child has played with, in which a tightly held string is stretched between two diaphragms. The scientist Robert Hooke in 1667...
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73Famous Filipino Scientists and Inventors Part 4
Dr. Alfredo Lagmay was born on August 14, 1919. He pursued a lot of studies relating to experimental analysis of behavior modification, relaxation and related states, and Hypnosis. Awards:· He was...
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75Seat Belt History
This hub intends to take a very brief look at the history of the seat belt, particularly its stages of development. There is no doubt that seat belts have been one of the most important safety inventions of...
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75Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers" in Greek. It is often called the "cradle of civilization" because Mesopotamia was the...
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71Scientific Attitudes that are Qualities of Scientists
What attitudes do scientists manifest when engaged in an inquiry or investigation? Below are list of scientific attitudes that are qualities of scientists: Beliefs. A scientist believes that everything that...
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9120 Significant Inventions of the 20th Century
Here's how inventor H. Cecil Booth came up with the idea. He noticed a device on trains that blew dust off chairs and thought it would be better to have a device that sucked the dust instead. To test his idea...
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83Invention of the Wheel
The invention of the wheel is probably the most important invention of all time. Without the wheel, the world simply wouldn't exist as we know it. The invention of the wheel was at the root of the Industrial...
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