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Most Important Inventions and Discoveries Of All Ages: Cotton-printing
Copying-machines (Watt) Coral-piercing machine (Hoffmann) Corn Brandy, first mentioned at Berlin د A. D. 1545 Cotton carding machine, improved by Hargreaves Cotton paper in China • • B. C. I60 Cotton paper brought to Greece A. D. 648 Cotton-printing cylinders, of copper, and deep-engraved (James Burton) 1805 Diorama, Daguerre and Bouton Cylindrical printing-machine (Oberkampf) Cylinder carding-machine (Peel) Cylindrical machine, papermaking, by Dickinson Cordwain (cordovan), leather made at Cordova Crayon (chalk) method in copper-plate engraving Cyanogen discovered by Gay-Lussac DAGUERREOTYPE (Daguerre and Nièpce) Decimal system of arithmetic (Johann Regiomontanus) Delft-ware (Luca della Robia) Demotic characters (writing) in Egypt Diamand-cutters were in Nuremberg Diamond-polishing (Ludwig von Berkem) Dibble-wheel (Bonafons) Differential and integral calculus (Newton and Leibnitz simultaneously) Dissection of the human body (Vesalius) Distillation, probably invented by Geber, known about Diving-bell (Pater Schott) Drilling-machine (agricultural) about Dyeing was known to the ancients. In Germany the first dyers' guild • د 1785 1762 1809 0 95° 1756 1815 1820 1460 1400 B. C. 600 A. D. 1375 1475 1830 1662 • 1822 • 1537 800 1558 400 925 EARTHENWARE (Eller, in England) • 1690 Ebonite, hardened india-rubber (Goodyear) 1844 Electric light, used for street-lighting in Paris : 1841 Electrical machine (Otto von Guericke) 1650 Electrical machine, glass (Ramsden) 1766 Electricity by induction (Faraday) 1832 Electricity, known to the ancients; more closely investigated (William Guilbert) 1600 Electricity, its conductibility (Stephen Gray) 1730 Electricity, positive and negative (distinction discovered by Du Fay) 1773 Electrolysation (Sir Humphry Davy), about 1797 Electro-magnetism (Oersted) 1819 Electro-magnetic motive-engine (Dal Negro) Electro-plating (Ruolz, Elkington, and others) Elements, four-fire, water, air, and earth-adopted by Empedocles about B. C. 460 Enamel colors, opaque (Tontin) A. D. 1632 Enamelling was known to the ancients. Reinvented in Europe by Johann van Eyck.