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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 1.

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Important Dates.

The following will refresh the minds of our readers as to the dates of the most important inventions, discoveries, and improvements, the advantages of which we now enjoy:—
Spinning wheel invented, 1330.
Paper first made of rags, 1417.
Muskets invented and first used in England in 1421.
Pumps invented, 1425.
Printing invented by Faust, 1441.
Engraving on wood invented, 1490.
Post-offices established in England, 1464.
Almanacs first published, 1441.
Printing introduced into England by Caxton, 1474.
Violins invented, 1477.
Roses first planted in England, 1505.
Hatchets first made in 1504.
Punctuation first used in literature, 1520.
Before that time words and sentences were put together like this.—Sel.