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18th-century inventors (11 C, 4 P) Pages in category "18th-century inventions" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The earliest pipes were made of clay, and are found at the Temple of Bel at Nippur in Babylonia. [126] [b] 4000 BC: Oldest evidence of locks, the earliest example discovered in the ruins of Nineveh, the capital of ancient Assyria. [129] 4000 BC – 3400 BC: Oldest evidence of wheels, found in the countries of Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. [130 ...
Development of the Watt steam engine in the late 18th century was an important element in the Industrial Revolution in Europe. The American Revolutionary War took place in the late 18th century. The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC).
Commonly cited examples of multiple independent discovery are the 17th-century independent formulation of calculus by Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, described by A. Rupert Hall; [3] the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and others; and the theory of the evolution ...
In fact, restrictions were so severe in the 18th century that women, including midwives, were forbidden to use forceps. [70] That particular restriction exemplified the increasingly constrictive, male-dominated medical community. Over the course of the 18th century, male surgeons began to assume the role of midwives in gynaecology.
3rd century BC: Archimedes relates problems in geometric series to those in arithmetic series, foreshadowing the logarithm. [46] 3rd century BC: Pingala in Mauryan India studies binary numbers, making him the first to study the radix (numerical base) in history. [47] 3rd century BC: Pingala in Mauryan India describes the Fibonacci sequence. [48 ...
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.
The Renaissance technological revolution: the set of inventions during the Renaissance period, roughly the 14th through the 16th century. The Commercial Revolution: a period of European economic expansion, colonialism and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the 16th century until the early 18th century.