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History of Technology Timeline
The Apple II
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Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours
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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.
6 Wars of Independence
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What is Holy Week?
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England
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Born July 2, 1759 • Massachusetts
Died January 20, 1849 (aged 89) • near Belfast • Maine
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Corliss steam engine
George Henry Corliss
American inventor
Samuel Morey
American inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
Scottish inventor
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
William Symington
British engineer
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
Matthew Murray
English engineer
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor

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