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Caravel
The caravel emerged because Portuguese explorers needed a ship that could sail both with and against the wind—returning home from Africa required beat...
Diving bell
The diving bell represents humanity's first successful technology for extending underwater time beyond a single breath. The principle required no soph...
Dock
The dock emerged independently in Egypt and the Indus Valley as the solution to a convergent problem: how to load, unload, and maintain ships efficien...