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5. Play-Doh. Who: Kay Zufall, Brian, Joseph McVicker, Bill Rhodenbaugh When: 1956 . How it was created: The gooey toy kids have been playing with for decades began as a household cleaning product ...
Palampore – पालमपोर् (Hindi language) of Indian origin [70] was imported to the western world—notable England and Colonial America—from India. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] In 17th-century England these hand painted cotton fabrics influenced native crewel work design. [ 71 ]
Technologies that were never successfully developed, may have disappeared completely. [2] These are not contained in the following list. Also not included are spurious inventions - technologies which are generally considered to not possess their claimed capabilities, to be hoaxes, or to not have ever existed in the first place.
Dan Papia then introduced it to the English-speaking world and popularized it as a monthly feature in his magazine, Tokyo Journal, encouraging readers to send in ideas. In 1995, Kawakami and Papia collaborated on the English language book 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindōgu. Most classic chindogu products are collected in ...
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The following dates are approximations. 700 BC: Pythagoras's theorem is discovered by Baudhayana in the Hindu Shulba Sutras in Upanishadic India. [18] However, Indian mathematics, especially North Indian mathematics, generally did not have a tradition of communicating proofs, and it is not fully certain that Baudhayana or Apastamba knew of a proof.
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
An ancient Chinese mechanical compass which took a millennium to reproduce. Tall bike: A bike which consists of two conventional bicycle frames connected one atop the other. Train surfing: As respectable and practical as drying one's hair in most parts of the world. Unused highway: Lost highways, unloved and unused. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571