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  1. Stone tool (3233 bytes)
    1: [[Image:DSC_9745w.jpg|thumb|right|Ancient stone tools|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com C...
    3: ... tools are associated with [[prehistoric]] societies that no longer exist.
    5: ...ped stone]] or [[ground stone]]. A person who makes chipped stone implements is called a [[flintknapp...
    6: [[Image:DSC 9743w.jpg|thumb|right|Ancient stone tools|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com C...
    8: ...eties because they are easily manufactured, the [[tool stone]] is usually plentiful, and they are easy t...
  2. Flint tool (1281 bytes)
    1: ... tools.jpg|thumb|right|Ancient [[Stone tool|stone tools]] ]]
    2: ...ly skilled industry (see [[Tool stone]]). The blades were polished to a fine level of finish.
    4: ... blades were valuable tools which were routinely resharpened by careful flaking away from the cutting ...
    6: ...section]]s for [[electron microscopy]]. These knives are made from high-quality manufactured [[glass]]...
  3. Tool (5792 bytes)
    1: ...evices known as "tools", for other meanings see [[Tool (disambiguation)]]''
    5: ...ol''' is, among other things, a device that provides a mechanical or mental advantage in accomplishing...
    6: ...rce is transmitted along the lever. A sword combines a lever and a [[wedge]].
    8: ...an increase in intelligence (aiding in the use of tools).
    10: ...eople can use weapons, such as [[explosive]]s, as tools.

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  1. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    1: ...ction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
    3: ...ut [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-po...
    5: ...[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
    9: ==Causes==
    10: ...on]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine.
  2. Steel (28384 bytes)
    1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
    3: ...ution in the alloy controls the qualities of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content...
    5: ...alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are ...
    8: ...dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy containing too much carbon to be ...
    11: ...ts [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
  3. Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Messalinde-Jerusalem.JPG|frame|A queen accepting feal...
    5: ...f Tripoli]]; and [[Ioveta of Bethany|Ioveta]], abbess of St. Lazarus in [[Bethany (Israel)|Bethany]].
    9: ...yre]] wrote "reseditque reginam regni potestas penes dominam Melisendem, Deo amabilem reginam, cui jur...
    11: ...nce. Baldwin raised his daughter as a capable successor to himself and Melisende enjoyed the support o...
    13: ...de sole queen and to strengthen her position, he designated Melisende as guardian for the young Baldwi...
  4. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    12: | [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]]
    20: | [[Indian National Congress|Congress (I)]]
    30: ! Predecessor:
    33: ! Successor:
    34: | [[Morarji Desai]]
  5. Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
    1: ...he_Very_Best_of_Sheryl_Crow.jpg|thumb|''The Very Best of Sheryl Crow'' album released October 2003]]
    3: ...uri]], [[United States|USA]]) is an American [[blues rock]] [[singer]], [[guitarist]] and song writer....
    7: ...n she moved to [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and found work as a [[backup vocalist]] for man...
    9: ...d other musicians to form what they called "The Tuesday Night Music Club." They would get together and...
    11: ...o"; Record of the Year for "All I Wanna Do"; and Best New Artist.
  6. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    3: ... wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number o...
    7: ...t and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family and friends. At around this time s...
    10: ... the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
    12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
    13: ...anying singles were "Me and a Gun", "Silent All These Years", "China", "Winter" and "[[Crucify (song)|...
  7. Apple (20408 bytes)
    7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rosales]]}}
    16: ...e fruits. Table apples are of the species ''M. domestica'' or hybrids of it.
    18: ...Two-red-apples.jpg|center|thumb|550px|Two red apples]]
    23: ...arch with it to develop new disease-resistant apples is continuing.
    25: ...le for growing in climates unsuitable for ''M. domestica'', mainly for increased cold tolerance.
  8. Pottery (17136 bytes)
    1: ...age:makingpottery.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. (Cappadocia, Turk...
    2: ... Clay formulated to be fired at higher temperatures, which is partially vitrified is called "[[stonew...
    4: ...iques that are thousands of years old but also takes advantage of more modern innovations in the field...
    6: ...erally known as a potter. The potter's most basic tool is the [[potter's wheel]].
    8: ...res and help in the dating of some historic cultures as well.
  9. Engraving (3556 bytes)
    1: ...d, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorative object in itself, as when ...
    3: ...gravers.jpg|thumb|An assortment of hand engraving tools]]
    4: ==The engraving process==
    5: ...haped and used for cutting straight lines. Other tools such as mezzotint rockers, roulets and burnisher...
    11: ...ther items were produced by [[chasing]] or sometimes a combination of [[lost-wax casting]] and chasing...
  10. Glass (26176 bytes)
    1: ...umping the liquid sugar onto a cold surface. The resulting solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the...
    3: ...rded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word ''glaer'' for amb...
    5: ...fic type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a building, container or decorat...
    9: ...e and will break into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with t...
    16: ==Properties and Uses==
  11. Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
    7: ... Mask of La Roche-Cotard]] in [[France]], now suggests that Neanderthal humans may have developed a so...
    9: ...corated by someone and used as a figurine, regardless of how it may have been formed. [http://news.bbc...
    11: ===Mesolithic===
    12: ...t. Patterns on utilitarian objects, like the paddles from [[Tybrind Vig]], [[Denmark]], are known as w...
    15: ...s and vessels decorated with patterns made by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord a...
  12. Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
    1: ...phy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand...
    2: ...corative [[writing]]. A style of calligraphy is described as a ''hand''.
    4: ...xamples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and palaeographers.
    7: {{Main|Chinese painting}}
    8: ...Chinese to appreciate its beauty. Calligraphy, in essence, is an abstract art.
  13. Metalworking (1231 bytes)
    1: ...es skill and the use of many different types of [[tool]]s, including:
    3: * Hand Tools
    17: ** [[punch (engineering)|Punches]]
    19: ** [[Taps and Dies]]
    22: * Machine Tools
  14. Goldsmith (585 bytes)
    3: ...rally composed of three main parts, being [[file (tool)|filing]], [[soldering]] and [[polishing]] of the...
  15. Painting (4567 bytes)
    1: ...erhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]].]]
    2: ...tes that humans have been painting for about 6 times as long as they have been using written language....
    4: ...n a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
    8: ...ros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of [[cave painting]] all over the world.
    12: == Painting techniques ==
  16. Weaving (6924 bytes)
    1: ...or artistic designs, including [[tapestry|tapestries]].
    3: ...eir fabrics, regardless of the complexity of the design.
    5: ...s called [[ikat]]. Fabric decorated using a wax resist method is called [[batik]].
    7: ==Process==
    9: ...e to many possible weave structures from the simplest plain weave, through [[twill]]s and [[satin]]s t...
  17. Woodworking (12397 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Woodcarvings of cranes.jpg|right|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to cr...
    2: '''Woodworking''' is the process of building, making or carving something using [...
    7: ...ncreasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
    9: ... has provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from the [[Iron Age]]. Wooden [[idol]]s from the ...
    11: .... The metal used by the Egyptians for woodworking tools was probably bronze or even copper, as ironworki...
  18. Culture (23440 bytes)
    1: ...o classify, codify and communicate their experiences [[symbol|symbolically]]. [[Image:Karen_tribe2063c...
    6: ...ng to this thinking, one can classify some countries as more civilized than others, and some people as...
    8: ...he indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples of [[Australia]].
    10: ... criticized) elements of [[high culture]] for repressing "[[human nature]]".
    12: ... capitalist]] systems of [[western culture | the West]].
  19. Map (10223 bytes)
    3: ...model|two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representation]] of a three-dimensional space. The scie...
    7: ...outh-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
    9: ...ate. Even today, maps can be powerful rhetorical tools beyond their purely practical value, and this ha...
    11: ...y by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] and [[Adolfo Bioy Casares]], generally known in [[English language|English]...
    13: ...ergency services providers, and other local agencies. Many national surveying projects have been carr...
  20. Science (19868 bytes)
    4: There are different theories of what "science" is.
    6: ... and "predictive" — they predict empirical results that can be checked and [[Falsifiability|poss...
    8: ...gh which they exercise those powers, and the sources of those powers in terms of the thing's structure...
    10: ...ation]] is impossible and that scientific hypotheses can only be falsified ([[falsification]]).
    12: [[Positivism]], a form of empiricism, advocates using science, as defined by empiricism, to gover...

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