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--This was made of lodestone which is a naturally-magnetized iron ore, the attractive properties of which they had been studying for centuries
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--Wheeled carts facilitated agriculture and commerce by endabling the transportation of goods to and from markets.
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--Democritus is best known for his atomic theory.
--He died in 370 BC -
--The printing press increased the speed on making copies of books.
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--This became possible after humans developed the ability to cast and shape metal.
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--The English Civil War saw King Charles I battle Parliament.
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--Lavoisier discovered elements, formulated a basic law of chemistry and helpted create the metric system.
--He died in may in 1794 -
--Proust is best known for helping prove the idea that every pure chemical compound consists of elements in a definite proportion.
--He died on July 5, 1826 -
--Dalton is best known for developing the acient concept of atoms into a scientific theory that has become a foundation of modern chemistry.
--He died on July 27, 1844 -
--It was the result of increasing colonial unhappiness with British rule.
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--Avogadro is known for his hypothesis that equal volumes of different gases contain an equal number of molecules, provided they are at the same temperature and pressure.
--He died on August 9, 1776 -
--Crookes is best known for his discovery of the element thallium and for his cathode-ray studies, fundemental in the development of atomic physics.
--He died on April 4, 1919 -
--Becquerel was best known for his work on radioactivity.
--He died on August 25, 1908 -
--Thomson was a Nobel Prize winning physicist whose research led to the descovery of electrons.
--He died on August 30, 1940 -
--Planck is considered to be the initial founder of quantum theory.
--He died on October 4, 1947
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--the combustion of a fuel releases a high-temperature gas which, as it expands, applies a force to a piston, moving it
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--Curie was best known for her work on radioactivity.
--She died on July 4, 1934 -
--Rutherford was the central figure in the study of radioactivity who led the exploration of nuclear physics.
--He died on October 19, 1937
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--Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone.
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--This allowed us to be active at night.
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--He is best known for two theories of relativity, The Nobel Prize in Physics and the equation e=mc^2.
--He died on April 18, 1955
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--Bohr was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and humanitarian whose revolutionary theories on atomic structures helped shape research worlwide.
--He died on November 18, 1962 -
--Schrodinger is known for the Schrodinger equation and his brilliant contributions to the wave theory of matter.
--He died in 1961 -
--Moseley arranged the Periodic Table in order of the atomic numbers of the elements.
--He died on August 10, 1915 -
--Chadwick is best known for discovering the neutron.
--He died on July 24, 1974 -
--Louis gained worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking work on quantum theory.
--He died on March 19, 1987 -
--Maillikan is best known for measuring the charge on the electron.
--He died on December 19, 1953
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--Heisenberg was best known for his principle that explains the impossibility of knowing exactly where something is and how fast it is moving.
--He died on February 1, 1976
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--This happened after series of events sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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--Aristotle laid much of the groundwork for western philosophy along with Socrates and Plato
--He died in 322 BC
