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  • Source of warmth and lighting
  • Protection from predators
  • Way to create more advanced hunting tools
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Fire

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What country FIRE originated

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Europe babes

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  • Method for cooking food.
  • Discovered by genetic ancestors of humans
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Fire

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  • Tool in hunting
  • Weapon during warfare
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Stone Arrowheads (ca 8,500)

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where did Stone Arrowheads originated

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America dumbass

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  • Used during Stone Age
  • Made by flint knapping
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Stone Arrowheads

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Where did Boat and Anchors originated?

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Acia and Oceana

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  • Originated in 592 BC
  • Ancient Greeks used large stones, a sack of sand,
    and wooden logs as weights
  • during the Homeric period
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Boat with Anchors

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Who improved the Boat with anchors?

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Eupalamus and Anacharsis

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Modern anchor invented by?

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Eupalamus

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Cyrene provided evidence that a ship needs a ?

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1,400-pound anchor

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  • From Asia and Oceana
  • Made 2,000 years ago by Chinese
  • Used a watery paste of mulberry bark, hemp, and
    rags from fabric
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Writing in bamboo/paper made from bark (ca 1,000)

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Only brought to Middle East, Africa, and Europe until 600 years later

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Writing in bamboo/paper

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Egyptians devised a schematized civil year with 365 days divided into three seasons, each of which had four months with a length of 30 days

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365-day calendar (ca 4236)

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  • First people to go over to a calendar based on the solar year were the ancient Egyptians
  • Calculated the length of the solar year as 365 days, divided up into 12 months of 30 days each and ending with 5 additional days
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365-day calendar (ca 4236)

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What calendar egyptians use?

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lunar calendar

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  • The straightforward process of taking out a few threads and twisting them together to create yarn. The procedure was initially carried out by hand and with sticks in a time before recorded history.
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Spinning Wheel from india

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to create primitive weapons such as fire lances and bombs, which were used during the Song dynasty.

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Gun powder

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As the Mongols spread the invention’s knowledge throughout Eurasia in the 13th century, it would revolutionize warfare and make previous military technology and many medieval castles obsolete.

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Gun powder

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Gunpowder weapons began to appear in ______ such as muskets and cannons. These weapons allowed for large-scale sieges to take place.

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Europe

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What era gun powder flourished?

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9th - 11th century

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  • Invented by Salvino D’Armati
  • From Italy
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Eyeglasses (13th Century)

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status markers of knowledge and riches throughout the Renaissance since the scholarship was a desired asset.

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Eyeglasses

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Concave glasses were invented in the ?

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Early Modern Era

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Invented by Giovanni di Dondi

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Mechanical clocks (1364)

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The mechanical clock comprises an ________________________ that marks the passing of time, and an escapement that counts its beats and control their speed.

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oscillating mechanism

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By comparison with astronomical systems for measuring time, this invention is less accurate but can be consulted at any time of day or night, even in adverse weather conditions.

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Mechanical Clocks

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Highly useful tool in Islamic civilization due to its capacity to astrologically determine prayer hours; used in navigation and trade or military travel.

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Astrolabe (225 BCE)

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Arab astronomers in the 9th century improved upon Hipparchus’ design, adding a compass and a movable pointer. This allowed them to measure the positions of the stars and planets more accurately

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Astrolabe (225 BCE)

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Invented by Greeks, Hipparchus

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Astrolabe (225 BCE)

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In 225 BCE, astrolabes were primarily invented by the ancient?

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Greeks

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Invented by Kalman Tihyani

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Thermal Camera

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  • Enables you to detect the temperature one is
    emitting without physical contact.
  • Developed for anti-aircraft defense in Britain.
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Thermal Camera (1929)

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Invented by IBM Engineers

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Laser Keyboard (1992)

35
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Recognizes the movements of human hands and fingers and translate those movements into actions on a surface using a projected keyboard.

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Laser Keyboard (1992)

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Invented by Raymond Damadian

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Magnetic Resonance Imagine (Early 1970’s)

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It captures images of the insides of the body to examine your organs, tissues and skeletal system that help diagnose variety of problem.

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MRI

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The invention of a human scanner was led to _____________________ that cancerous cells could be differentiated from non-cancerous ones using magnetic resonance.

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Damadian’s hypothesis

39
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Invented by Charles “Chuck” Hall

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3D Printing (1986)

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A __________ slices the object you desire to print into different layers. After this it will then print the object from the bottom up, building it up layer by layer

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3d printer

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Another name of 3D Printer?

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Stereolithography

42
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Invented by David Gow

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Biosprostethics (1993)

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Help people with disabilities stay active and regain independence, especially in rehabilitation.

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Biosprostethics

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  • Invented by Francisco Quisumbing
  • It was sold in the Philippines after the 2nd World War from the United states
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Quink Quick Drying Ink (1931)

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  • Made from a very alkaline solution containing isopropyl alcohol which was never done before
  • It was important because main communication in this era was through writing using pen and paper.
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Quink Quick Drying Ink

46
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Invented by Dr. Del Mundo

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Bamboo Incubator (1941)

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Why bamboo incubator were invented?

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For poor people who cannot afford incubator and areas without electricity

48
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Invented by Dr. Abelardo Aguilar

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Erythromycin (1949)

49
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He was testing soil and unexpectedly discovered a new antibiotic from a bacteria that was found in his backyard.

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Erythromycin (1949)

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can be used to treat those allergic to penicillin – a “group of antibiotics used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections.”?

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Erythromycin (1949)

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Invented by Gregorio Zara

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Videophone (1949)

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As early as 1954, physicist and National Scientist Gregorio Y. Zara created a gadget that allows two people to chat on the telephone and see each other on television.

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Videophone

53
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Gregorio Zara’s telephone-television paved the way for _______________ , an essential breakthrough in the field of communication

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modern-day videophones

54
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Invented by Diosdado P. Banato

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16-Microchip (1976)

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The first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator greatly accelerated computer performance and contributed to the creation of the ethernet controller chip that enabled the Internet.

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16-Microchip (1976)

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This is still being used in the hardware of personal computers up to this date. This ‘revolutionary’ PC chipset allows the use of graphics-based commands which permit faster-computed feedback.

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16-Microchip

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