This dimension credits the specific person who actually invented a technology. Wikipedia names "Alexander Graham Bell" as the first person "granted a United States patent" for the telephone in 1876, even though "this instrument was further developed by many others" afterward. Browsing by inventor gathers every invention credited to the same person.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Textile manufacturing
WikipediaHistory, 18th-19th century mechanizationQuote, History, 18th-19th century mechanization
Until the 18th and 19th centuries, the textile industry was a household work. It became mechanised in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has continued to develop through science and technology since the twentieth century.
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