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- {{use British English|date=September 2021}} The phrase "crinkle crankle" is an [[Reduplication#English|ablaut reduplication]], defined as something with bends and turns, first at ...10 KB (1,411 words) - 17:14, 19 February 2025
- ==Prior to 17th century== ...irst2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|isbn=978-0-7126-5616-0}}</ref> ...20 KB (2,694 words) - 20:44, 22 September 2024
- {{Use British English|date=August 2019}} ...almers |title=The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England |journal=Philosophy of Science |year=1937 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages ...41 KB (6,249 words) - 08:02, 17 January 2025
- {{Use American English|date=September 2024}} | units3 = [[English Engineering Units]] ...30 KB (4,198 words) - 05:49, 2 January 2025
- ...Middle Ages]] until the development of [[gunpowder]] artillery in the 14th century rendered them mostly obsolete. ...ion siege engines that had existed since at least the beginning of the 4th century BC, most notably the [[gastraphetes]] in [[Heron of Alexandria|Heron of Ale ...48 KB (6,972 words) - 16:17, 17 January 2024
- ...e = Ancient Machines: From Wedges to Waterwheels| publisher = Twenty-First Century Books| year = 2000| location = USA| pages = 58| url = https://books.google. ...athematician]] [[Archytas| Archytas of Tarentum]] (428–350 BC). By the 1st century BC, wooden screws were commonly used throughout the [[Mediterranean Sea|Med ...67 KB (9,823 words) - 16:59, 1 March 2025
- ...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...139 KB (19,646 words) - 08:22, 1 March 2025
- ...ultural water to nearly 40,000 people.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Ward English |first= Paul |title= The Origin and Spread of Qanats in the Old World |jour ...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, ...180 KB (24,048 words) - 09:26, 28 February 2025
- ...the company [[Tokuji Hayakawa|Hayakawa Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha]] (in English, Hayakawa Electric Industry Co. Ltd.), which later developed into nowadays ...e research on bifacial solar cells well until the first decade of the 21st century, with remarkable results. For example, in 1994, two Brazilian PhD students ...52 KB (7,439 words) - 07:12, 7 January 2025
- ...n Society of Mechanical Engineers | last2 = American Society of Mechanical Engineers | title = ASME engineer's data book | page = 249 | publisher = ASME Press | ..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...251 KB (37,240 words) - 05:11, 19 January 2025
- ...er, while theoretically based scales arose in the middle of the nineteenth century.<ref name="Truesdell 1980">Truesdell, C.A. (1980), Sections 11 B, 11H, pp. ...ory_of_heat_radiation |date=2011-11-18 }}, second edition, translated into English by M. Masius, Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, reprinted by Kessinger.< ...104 KB (15,313 words) - 09:37, 26 February 2025