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some anniversaries to be remembered in the year 2010

4650 th

silk production: Si-Ling Chi, legitimate wife of Prince Hoang-ti of China; for her achievement, Si-Ling Chi was deified

2600 th

road built across the isthmus of Corinth, 4.6 mi (7,4 km), to transport ships across land on wheels

2150 th

paper made in China; it was used as a packing material, for clothing, and for personal hygiene, but not for writing

2050 th

rotary winnowing machine, with crank handle (China).

1900 th

the oldest known piece of paper used for writing

1400 th

segmental arch bridge: An-chi bridge at Chao-hsien, built to span the Grand Canal, dug to join the Yang-tze and Yellow river systems

1100 th

paper money (China)

700 th

blowing-engines for furnaces and forges, with crank-handle drive, and silk machinery, water-powered (China)

700 th

mechanical clocks in Europe, driven by weight (the contemporary Chinese clocks were water-driven)

600 th

wire: Rudolf of Nuremberg devised the process for drawing out the wire

500 th

horizontal water wheel, designed by Leonardo da Vinci

500 th

round pocket watch, "The Nuremberg Egg", after ten years work of Peter Henlein, including his invention of a steel mainspring

400 th

flintlock gun by Marin Le Bourgeois, France

400 th

Saturn observed by telescope: Galileo using a magnification of 32

300 th

three-color printing, by Jacob Christoph Le Blon, a German painter

250 th

screw-manufacturing machine by Job and William Wyatt, England

250 th

lighting rods by Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia

250 th

cast-iron cog wheels for mills, Carron Iron Works, Glasgow, Scotland

250 th

roller-skates by violinist Joseph Merlin of Huy, Belgium

200 th

hemp and flax-spinning machine by Philippe de Girard

200 th

mowing machine by Peter Gaillard, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

200 th

food canning (heat sterilization) by Nicolas Appert, France

150 th

Winchester repeating rifle by B. Tyler Henry, USA

150 th

internal combustion engine for the "horseless carriage" by JJE Lenoir

100 th

neon lighting by George Claude, French physicist

100 th

gas-propelled combine harvester by the Holt Company, USA

100 th

rayon stockings for women manufactured in Germany

75 th

color film (monopak-still) by L. Godowsky and L. Mannes, New York

75 th

beer can introduced in New Jersey

75 th

paperback book by Sir Allen Lane of Penguin Books, London
Christmas Tree

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