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Contributions; Talk; Category: South American inventions. 2 languages. ... Argentine inventions (1 C, 10 P) B. Brazilian inventions (2 C, 22 P) C. Chilean inventions ...
Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyro, build in the U.S. under Cierva license, 1961.. Ángel Cabrera (1879–1960), naturalist, investigated the South-American fauna. [11]Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), physicist, did important work on the theories of crystal growth and the oxidisation of metals.
Artur Avila (born 1979), Brazilian mathematician; one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such an award. Francisco João de Azevedo (1814–1880), inventor, best known for his invention of Typewriter
Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) pays tribute to the contributions and culture of Latinx and Hispanic people. To commemorate the occasion, here are 54 of the most influential ...
Winter count - Several Native American groups in the Great Plains have used winter counts as pictorial calendars for record-keeping. Writing system – many indigenous American cultures, such as the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Zapotec, and Toltec, developed Mesoamerican writing systemss. Other native peoples to the north—mainly Algonquians—had ...
Many Native American contributions to our modern world often go unrecognized, according to Gaetana DeGennaro, a museum specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Rodolfo Neri Vela is the first and only Mexican, and the second Latin-American to have traveled to space. In 1959, the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias) was established as a non-governmental, non-profit organization of distinguished scientists. The academy has grown in membership and influence, and it represents a ...
Real de a 8, also known as "Spanish American peso", "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight", considered to be the first world currency, which also gave the origin of the dollar or peso sign ($), was a Spanish/Mexican invention, it was first used in New Spain before being widely used in the whole Americas, parts of Europe and the Far East.