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Top fifty greatest breakthroughs since the wheel
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Oct 25, 13:32 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Oct 25, 13:32 -0700
Here's a fun list from "The Atlantic":
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/innovations-list/309536/
Both the compass and the sextant make the cut. Of course, you have to see the sextant here as a "token" representing scientific navigation. By itself, it was scarcely an invention at all.
-FER
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