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Eli Whitney


(1765-1825), American inventor, was born on a farm in Westboro, Massachusetts, on the 8th of December 1765.

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Antikythera Mechanism

Antikythera Mechanism was found in a shipwrecked Roman vessel in the Mediterranean Ocean around 1900. Some experts at think it an astronomer's tool, calculating the position of the planets, moon and sun and was made about 100 B.C. An x-ray of the mechanism, revealed it to be complex, containing a sophisticated differential system of 30 to 70 gears.

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War-Work Registration From For Home Craftsmen 1942


IT is urgently necessary to find out at once what  contribution the home workshops of the United States can make in the production of war materials.

Douglas emblem 1942

Douglas emblem 1942

From article in March 1942 Popular Science
This emblem on the administration building of the new Douglas blackout plant at Long Beach, California symbolizes one of his greatest triumphs, the 25,000-mile round-the-world flight made by U.S.Army airmen in 1924 in two Douglas planes.

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