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VaccineIn 1796, a young physician named Edward Jenner performed an experiment that would fundamentally alter the course of human history.
Steam engineIn the first century AD, a Greek mathematician named Hero of Alexandria constructed a device called the aeolipile, a hollow sphere mounted on a pivot that…
Electric batteryIn 1749, Benjamin Franklin coined the word battery to describe a set of linked Leyden jar capacitors, borrowing the military term for weapons functioning…