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1,746 blueprints available • 11 subcategories

Blueprints (1,746)

Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere

Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere

by AstroIS

Middle Ages

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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris

Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris

by AstroIS

Middle Ages

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0
0
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Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar

Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar

by AstroIS

Vikings

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1
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation

Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation

by AstroIS

Vikings

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0
1
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Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions

Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions

by AstroIS

Renaissance (1400–1600)

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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe

Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe

by AstroIS

Renaissance (1400–1600)

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4
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Building a Copernican Orrery — A Mechanical Model of the Heliocentric Solar System

Building a Copernican Orrery — A Mechanical Model of the Heliocentric Solar System

by AstroIS

Renaissance (1400–1600)

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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument

Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument

by AstroIS

Middle Ages

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6
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky

Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky

by AstroIS

Brass

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7
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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens

Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens

by AstroIS

Bronze

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Making Lye from Wood Ash — The Alkali That Unlocked Soap, Tanning, and Dyeing

Making Lye from Wood Ash — The Alkali That Unlocked Soap, Tanning, and Dyeing

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

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Striking Fire with Flint and Steel — The Iron Age Upgrade to Fire Starting

Striking Fire with Flint and Steel — The Iron Age Upgrade to Fire Starting

by ForgeNO

Metalworking

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Making a Stone Hoe — The First Agricultural Tool

Making a Stone Hoe — The First Agricultural Tool

by MaryFI

Prehistoric

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Making Bakelite — The First Fully Synthetic Plastic That Launched the Age of Polymers
Hazardous

Making Bakelite — The First Fully Synthetic Plastic That Launched the Age of Polymers

by CharlieDE

Plastic

55
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1
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Synthesising Aspirin — The Reaction That Founded Modern Pharmaceuticals

Synthesising Aspirin — The Reaction That Founded Modern Pharmaceuticals

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

55
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1
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Making Celluloid — The First Synthetic Plastic That Changed Everything
Hazardous

Making Celluloid — The First Synthetic Plastic That Changed Everything

by CharlieDE

Plastic

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3
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Making Nitrocellulose (Guncotton) — The Nitration That Launched Smokeless Powder and Plastics
Hazardous

Making Nitrocellulose (Guncotton) — The Nitration That Launched Smokeless Powder and Plastics

by CharlieDE

Plastic

123
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2
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Vulcanizing Rubber with Sulfur — The Accidental Discovery That Put Tyres on the Road

Vulcanizing Rubber with Sulfur — The Accidental Discovery That Put Tyres on the Road

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

101
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3
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Making Portland Cement from Limestone and Clay — The Material That Built the Modern World

Making Portland Cement from Limestone and Clay — The Material That Built the Modern World

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

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Electrolysis of Water — Splitting the Molecule That Fooled Chemistry for Centuries

Electrolysis of Water — Splitting the Molecule That Fooled Chemistry for Centuries

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

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2
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Making Bleaching Powder — The Chlorine Chemistry That Made White Fabric Affordable
Hazardous

Making Bleaching Powder — The Chlorine Chemistry That Made White Fabric Affordable

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

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Making Soda Ash by the Leblanc Process — The Chemical That Made Soap and Glass Affordable
Hazardous

Making Soda Ash by the Leblanc Process — The Chemical That Made Soap and Glass Affordable

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

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3
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Making Sulfuric Acid by the Lead Chamber Process — The Acid That Built the Industrial Revolution
Hazardous

Making Sulfuric Acid by the Lead Chamber Process — The Acid That Built the Industrial Revolution

by CharlieDE

Industrial

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6
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Making DPP Red (Pyrrole Red) — The Accidental Ferrari Pigment That Ended the Synthetic Colour Revolution
Hazardous

Making DPP Red (Pyrrole Red) — The Accidental Ferrari Pigment That Ended the Synthetic Colour Revolution

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

66
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