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... century put remarkably little of its tremendous and in- novative technological effort into devices for war . In the course of its dynamic development between 1750 and 1900 important things happened to technology itself . In the first ...
... century put remarkably little of its tremendous and in- novative technological effort into devices for war . In the course of its dynamic development between 1750 and 1900 important things happened to technology itself . In the first ...
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... century . Originally the magnetized needle floated on straw , but by the latter half of the 13th century it was mounted on a pivot . The use of charts for maritime navigation developed at the same time ; the first recorded use of a ...
... century . Originally the magnetized needle floated on straw , but by the latter half of the 13th century it was mounted on a pivot . The use of charts for maritime navigation developed at the same time ; the first recorded use of a ...
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... century AD ) and by the Danes , whose long series of raids began about 790. The Humber became an important linguistic as well as geo- graphical boundary , and the English - speaking portion of what became England was divided into a ...
... century AD ) and by the Danes , whose long series of raids began about 790. The Humber became an important linguistic as well as geo- graphical boundary , and the English - speaking portion of what became England was divided into a ...
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