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Egyptian inventions
- Board gameIn southwest Turkey, a set of elaborate sculptured stones designed for a chess-like game emerged during the Bronze Age around 5,000 years ago.
- Steam turbineIn 1884, Sir Charles Parsons unveiled a machine that would change the world. His first model connected to a dynamo generated electricity for lighting.
- TaxIn the First Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, between 3000 and 2800 BC, a system emerged where peasants provided forced labor to the state.
- LoomThe word loom derives from the Old English term geloma, formed by combining the perfective prefix ge- with a root loma of unknown origin.
- LuteA cylinder seal from Uruk, dated to about 3100 BC and now held in the British Museum, depicts a woman playing what scholars identify as an early lute.
- LeverThe word lever entered the English language around 1300. It sprang from the stem of a verb meaning to raise. That verb traces back to an adjective levis…
- Water clockA stone vessel from the New Kingdom of Egypt, dated between 1417 and 1379 BC, sits in a museum today as physical proof of one of humanity's earliest attempts…
- Egyptian templeThe earliest shrines appeared in prehistoric Egypt during the late fourth millennium BC at sites such as Saïs and Buto in Lower Egypt.