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While stories about who invented the bicycle often contradict one another, there's one thing that's certain: the very first bicycles were nothing like the ones you see cruising down the street today. The first known iterations of a wheeled, human-powered vehicle were created long before the...
Who invented the dirt bike? Navigating the history ofdirt bikesand its inventors can be as rough as an off-road ride. Contrary to common beliefs like Thomas Edison inventing the movie camera, when it was actually William Dickson while working for Edison, finding the originator of the first di...
Leonardo may have been the greatest genius (天才) __4__ have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn’t __5__ a helicopter with th...
1885: Gottlieb Daimler of Germany invented the prototype of the modern gasoline engine. 1895: Rudolf Diesel, a French inventor, patented the diesel engine that was an efficient, compression ignition, internal combustion engine. "We generally think of the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen as the first ...
The modern emphasis on the scientific study of reading dates from approximately 1887 when a French scientist named Javal discovered that the visual process in reading is not the technique people had originally assumed to be. It seems to most persons that as you read along a line of print your...
He designed bridges, roads and waterways. He drew pictures of flying machines and machines that would send pictures through airwaves. These pictures look very much like modern airplanes and television sets. Leonardo learned his scientific attitude (态度) from his math teacher, Pozzo Toscanelli, ...
Another pioneer in automotive innovation, Mary Anderson came up with what would eventually become the modern windshield wiper.Her 1903 patentwas for a device the driver could operate inside of the vehicle: A lever that caused a spring-loaded arm with a rubber blade to swing across the windshield...
Who invented cement? Cement: Cement is a specific kind of architectural binder that is liquid when wet but dries into solid, tough, and durable stone-like matter. It is a cornerstone of modern construction, used widely today. Answer and Explanation: ...
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Did you know BASKETBALL was invented by an instructor for the Young Men's Christian Association. The game was invented by James Naismith, who was born in 1861 in Ontario, Canada. Both...