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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.
González Camarena was a Mexican engineer who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and who also introduced color television to Mexico. Mexico was in the forefront of the Green Revolution , funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and developed by Norman Borlaug , who later won the Nobel Prize for his work.
A field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in NASA's Voyager mission in 1979, to take pictures and video of Jupiter. [2]There was a Mexican science research and technology group created La Funck Guillermo González Camarena or The Guillermo González Camarena Foundation in 1995 that was beneficial to creative and talented inventors in Mexico.
Sports originating in Mexico (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Mexican inventions" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas (March 16, 1925 – September 13, 2004) was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone. Career summary
SEE ALSO: Eight amazing inventions we wouldn't have without Muslims. Anesthetics. They used three ingredients to numb the pain. Coca, peyote and datura were used as early as 1000 B.C.
From there, pineapple cultivation spread to Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Indigenous Americans used the pineapple as a source of food. Planned city construction – ancient cities in Mexico–such as Teotihuacan and the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan–incorporated planned city design, including streets laid out in a grid ...
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