5/1/26 I will be telling you about the optical telegraph, cotton gin, Eli Whitney, and the hydraulic press that I learned about this week in history. An optical telegraph is a line of satiations typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals. There are two main types of such…

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4/17/26 I will be telling you about Benjamin Thompson, gas lighting, William Murdoch, and the screw cutting lathe. Benjamin Thomson was an American military officer. He was also a scientist and inventor. Benjamin was born on March 26, 1753 and died on August 21, 1814. He was 61 when he died. A super interesting invention…

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2/20/26 I will be telling you about The Coke-Fired Blast Furnace, Newcomen atmospheric engine, Thomas Newcomen, and Octans. The Coke-Fired Blast Furnace is powered by coke which is grey, hard, and coal-based fuel with a high carbon content. It is made by heating coal or petroleum in the absence of air. Coke is an important…

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I will be telling you about Christiaan Huygens, calculus, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, and Isaac Newton. Christiaan Huygens studied light for a long time. He studied the sun for almost ten years! After that ten years he made the double slit. The double slit was a box with a cut in it that had a sliver…

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I will be telling you about the mercury barometer, the vacuum pump, the pendulum clock, and Robert Boyle. Before, the mercury barometer people didn’t think vacuums existed. Then Torricelli came and explained how the vacuum is real and that lead to the making of the barometer. The barometer was a bowl filled with mercury and…

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1/16/25 I will be telling you about Joans Kepler, Galileo Galilei, the Side Rule, and John Napier. First, Joanns Kepler was born in 1571 and died in 1630. Before him people thought the sun orbited the earth. Then Kepler came and showed how the earth spins and orbits the sun. Second, Galileo Galilei helped look…

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11/28/25 I want to tell you about the inventions I learned about this week in history. I will be telling you about chess, arquebus, mainspring, and the printing press. Before chess, people would have a piece of paper as the game board, and round pieces of cardboard for the game pieces. Since the game was…

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11/14/25 I will be telling you about the English Longbow, spurs, the blast furnace, and Plate Armor. The English Longbow made the arrows shot stronger because the bow was longer. That meant that men and woman would have to pull back more on the bow. The impact that the long bow had on history was…

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10/17/25 Before universities parents would teach their children using books, flash cards, and spelling tests. Once Universities were invented then parents could do other things such as grow and harvest their food, and cook, while their children were getting educated. The impact on history was how it made life easer for the parents and the…

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10/10/25 The Islamic scholar I learned about this week was Al-Kindi. He lived from 801 AD to 873 AD. He was 72 when he died. Al-Kindi was famous for identifying small pox and chicken pox. Al-Kindi was able to understand and discover the difference between chicken pox and small pox. Chicken pox is red on…

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