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Honey as a Wound Dressing — The Oldest Antimicrobial Medicine Known to Humanity
by Bob
Prehistoric
73
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Plantain Leaf Poultice — The Universal Wound Herb Found on Every Continent
by Bob
Prehistoric
152
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1
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Chamomile Tea as Medicine — The Ancient Flower Infusion for Calm and Digestion
by Bob
Prehistoric
69
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0
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5
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Hazardous
Making a Silver Mirror by the Liebig Process — Depositing Metallic Silver on Glass
by Charlie
Industrial
124
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Cutting and Polishing a Glass Prism — The Instrument That Splits White Light into Colours
by Penny
Optics
60
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Grinding a Glass Lens for a Telescope — Shaping Light with Abrasive and Patience
by Penny
Optics
111
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1
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Hazardous
Making Tin-Lead Solder — The Ancient Alloy That Joins Metals Without a Forge
by Peter
Ancient
58
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3
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Building a Foucault Pendulum — Proving Earth Rotates with a Swinging Weight
by Astro
Modern
136
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Building a Mariner's Sextant — The Instrument That Conquered the Oceans
by Astro
Modern
86
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Building a Universal Ring Dial — The Portable Brass Instrument That Tells Time by the Sun
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
77
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Building an Arab Kamal — The Indian Ocean Navigator's Latitude Finder
by Astro
Middle Ages
75
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0
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Building a Merkhet — The Egyptian Star Transit Instrument for Finding True North
by Astro
Egyptians
263
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Building a Camera Obscura — Projecting the Sun and Eclipses Safely
by Astro
Ancient
866
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0
0
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Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements
by Astro
Astronomy
55
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Building a Newtonian Reflecting Telescope — Mirrors Instead of Lenses
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
119
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2
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Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere
by Astro
Middle Ages
60
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0
0
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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris
by Astro
Middle Ages
67
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0
0
0
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Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar
by Astro
Vikings
70
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1
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation
by Astro
Vikings
72
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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)
84
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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)
75
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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)
87
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0
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3
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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument
by Astro
Middle Ages
114
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0
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6
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
by Astro
Ancient
98
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0
0
7
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