China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

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This Women's History Month, we're celebrating inventions made by women. Nancy Johnson created the first hand-cranked ice-cream maker in 1843. Famous American chef Julia Child developed a shark ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

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These two inventions have helped create a world where ... constant spread of information is essential as we explore the most important innovations of the last 30 years.

We might mention : many other important inventions which are now conferring blessings upon community, but our object principally, is to direct attention to their merits, as particular information ...

The Rainbow Bridge built in the NOVA program "China Bridge" is just one of many important inventions that appeared during China's impressive Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1280). This vibrant period in ...

Narrator:The ideas behind some modern inventions were first thought up hundreds of years ago. Narrator:Leonardo da Vinci lived in Italy over 500 years ago. Most famous for his art including the ...