A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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