Inventions
Patents, engineering breakthroughs, and makers
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Inventions
Ancient Greeks built a bronze computer to track the movement of the stars
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Inventions
A Greek engineer invented a functional steam turbine two millennia before the Industrial Revolution
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The Archimedes screw can move water uphill using only gravity and rotation
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Inventions
The first self-propelled vehicle was a steam-powered tractor built in 1769
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The first industrial steam engines used the weight of the atmosphere to pump water
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The Wright brothers used a homemade wind tunnel to reinvent the shape of wings
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The first hypodermic needles were fashioned from animal bladders and hollow bird quills
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The first vaccine was derived from a mild virus found on the hands of milkmaids
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The first battery was a stack of metal disks separated by salty cardboard
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The first device to store electricity was a glass jar filled with water
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Stirling engines can generate power using only the temperature difference between two surfaces
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Weather radar tracks storms by measuring how raindrops change the frequency of radio waves
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Rapidly cooling molten metal creates glass-like ribbons that slash electrical grid losses
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Nanoscale injectors can transplant power-generating mitochondria directly into failing human cells
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Modified messenger RNA can teach the immune system to ignore foreign molecules
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