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43 Cards in this Set
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Baron von Drais von Sauerbronn
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1st modern bicycle
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Edward Jenner
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Small pox vaccination
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I.K. Brunel
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transatlantic Steamer and Suspension Bridges
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Etienne Lenoir
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internal-combustion engine
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Michael Faraday
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electric moter
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Charles Macintosh
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weatherproof fabric
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Samuel Colt
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Wooden Revolver
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Samuel Morse
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Morse Code
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Joseph Nicephore Neipce
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photographic images
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Joseph Lister
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antiseptic
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Elisha Otis
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Safety elevators
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the Lumiere Brothers
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Motion picture camera
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John Logie Baird
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Television Transmitter
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Gottlieb Daimler
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Horseless Carriage
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Radio
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The Wright Brothers
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1st practical airplane
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Alessandro Volta
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electric battery
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Frank Whittle
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Jet engine
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Laszlo Biro
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ballpoint pen
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Christopher Cockerell
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Hovercraft
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Theodore Maiman
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the Laser
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Johann Gutenberg
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1st printer
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Gerardun Mercator
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1st Atlas
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Charles Babbage
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Digital computer
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Mauchley and Eckert
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electornic digital computer
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Antoine Lavoisier
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elements of chemistry
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Richard Arkwright
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Spinning machine
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Thomas Edison
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Phonograph
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Rocket
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Archimedes
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Archimedes screw (a machine for raising water)
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Montgolfier Brothers
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Hot-Air Balloon
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James Watt
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rotary engine
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Leanardo da Vinci
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armored tank
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Christiaan Huygens
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Pendulum Clock
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Telephone
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Isac Newton
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Newtons Law of Motion
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Thomas Newcomen
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Punp for a waterwheel
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Edwin Drake
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Oil drill
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Galileo Galilei
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discovered that planets moved around the sun
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George Stephenson
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Locomotive steam engine
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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single lens microscope
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Blaise Pascal
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1st calculating machine
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Benjamin Franklin
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Lighting Rod
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