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  1. 2 days ago · Sewing machine (1846) – revolutionized the speed and efficiency of making clothing. Vulcanized rubber (1839) – made rubber a durable, waterproof material with many uses. Safety bicycle (1885) – first modern bicycle; made personal transport affordable. Typewriter (1868) – sped up the creation and duplication of documents.

  2. 3 days ago · In 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland created this heat-resistant, durable material—the first fully synthetic plastic. Bakelite’s invention was a game changer, introducing a material that was: versatile. durable. heat-resistant. the birth of modern plastics.

  3. 5 days ago · 1900s. 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.

  4. 4 days ago · Later Boston acquired conventional subway trains. New York City opened the first section of what was to become the largest system in the world on October 27, 1904. In Philadelphia a subway system was opened in 1907, and Chicago’s system opened in 1943. Moscow constructed its original system in the 1930s.

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  6. 3 days ago · Special water-tight boxes called caissons were invented to deal with this problem in England in 1830 and adopted in the U.S. during the 1850s and 1860s. [36] Early skyscraper caisson foundations, 1898

  7. 4 days ago · Archaeological investigations are a principal source of knowledge of prehistoric, ancient, and extinct culture. The word comes from the Greek archaia (“ancient things”) and logos (“theory” or “science”). The archaeologist is first a descriptive worker: he has to describe, classify, and analyze the artifacts he studies.

  8. 4 days ago · In a 1900 speech to the International Congress of Mathematicians, David Hilbert set out a list of 23 unsolved problems in mathematics. These problems, spanning many areas of mathematics, formed a central focus for much of 20th-century mathematics. Today, 10 have been solved, 7 are partially solved, and 2 are still open.

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