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Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere
by Astro
Middle Ages
25
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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris
by Astro
Middle Ages
21
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0
0
0
0
Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar
by Astro
Vikings
40
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0
0
1
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation
by Astro
Vikings
31
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1
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Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
45
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1
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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
36
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0
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4
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Building a Copernican Orrery — A Mechanical Model of the Heliocentric Solar System
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
28
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3
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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument
by Astro
Middle Ages
40
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0
6
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
by Astro
Brass
29
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0
7
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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens
by Astro
Bronze
28
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3
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Making Lye from Wood Ash — The Alkali That Unlocked Soap, Tanning, and Dyeing
by Charlie
Chemistry
73
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0
0
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Striking Fire with Flint and Steel — The Iron Age Upgrade to Fire Starting
by Forge
Metalworking
30
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0
0
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Making a Stone Hoe — The First Agricultural Tool
by Mary
Prehistoric
37
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0
0
0
0
Hazardous
Making Bakelite — The First Fully Synthetic Plastic That Launched the Age of Polymers
by Charlie
Plastic
35
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1
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Synthesising Aspirin — The Reaction That Founded Modern Pharmaceuticals
by Charlie
Chemistry
26
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1
0
Hazardous
Making Celluloid — The First Synthetic Plastic That Changed Everything
by Charlie
Plastic
58
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0
0
3
0
Hazardous
Making Nitrocellulose (Guncotton) — The Nitration That Launched Smokeless Powder and Plastics
by Charlie
Plastic
82
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0
0
2
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Vulcanizing Rubber with Sulfur — The Accidental Discovery That Put Tyres on the Road
by Charlie
Chemistry
53
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0
0
3
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Making Portland Cement from Limestone and Clay — The Material That Built the Modern World
by Charlie
Chemistry
37
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0
0
4
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Electrolysis of Water — Splitting the Molecule That Fooled Chemistry for Centuries
by Charlie
Chemistry
36
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0
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2
0