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13005. Invention
Invention : balloon, hot-air
Year : 1783
Inventor : joseph & etienne montgolfier
Country : france.
13006. Invention
Invention : bandage, adhesive
Year : 1921
Inventor : earle dickson
Country : us.
13007. Invention
Invention : bar code
Year : 1952
Inventor : joseph woodland
Country : us.
13008. Invention
Invention : barbed wire
Year : 1874
Inventor : joseph glidden
Country : us.
13009. Invention
Invention : barometer
Year : 1643
Inventor : evangelista torricelli
Country : italy.
13010. Invention
Invention : battery, electric storage
Year : 1800
Inventor : alessandro volta
Country : italy.
13011. Invention
Invention : beer
Year : before 6000 bc
Inventor : sumerians, babylonians
Country : mesopotamia.
13012. Invention
Invention : bicycle
Year : 1818
Inventor : baron karl de drais de sauerbrun
Country : germany.
13013. Invention
Invention : bifocal lens
Year : 1784
Inventor : benjamin franklin
Country : us.
13014. Invention
Invention : bikini
Year : 1946
Inventor : louis reard
Country : france.
13015. Invention
Invention : blood bank
Year : late 1930s
Inventor : charles richard drew
Country : us.
13016. Invention
Invention : blow-dryer
Year : 1920
Inventor : racine universal motor co., hamilton beach manufacturing co.
Country : us.
13017. Invention
Invention : bomb, atomic
Year : 1945
Inventor : j. robert oppenheimer, et al.
Country : us.
13018. Invention
Invention : bomb, thermonuclear (hydrogen)
Year : 1952
Inventor : edward teller, et al.
Country : us.
13019. Invention
Invention : boomerang
Year : c. 15,000 years ago
Inventor : aboriginal peoples
Country : australia.
13020. Invention
Invention : braille system
Year : 1824
Inventor : louis braille
Country : france.
13021. Invention
Invention : brassiere (bra)
Year : 1913
Inventor : mary phelps jacob
Country : us.
13022. Invention
Invention : bread, sliced (bread-slicing machine)
Year : 1928
Inventor : otto frederick rohwedder
Country : us.
13023. Invention
Invention : button
Year : c. 700 bc
Inventor : greeks, etruscans
Country : greece, italy.
13024. Invention
Invention : buttonhole
Year : 13th century
Inventor : -
Country : europe.
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The reason most mosquito bites itch is because mosquitoes inject saliva into the persons skin before they suck your blood. They take it out once they are done, but if they are forced to fly away, they don't get a chance to draw the saliva out. And it is their saliva that causes the itch.
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