Greek alphabet
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There were many variants of the early Greek alphabet, each suited to a local dialect. Eventually the Ionian alphabet was adopted in all Greek-speaking states, but before that happened, the Euboean variant was carried to the Italic peninsula and adopted by Etruscan and eventually Latin.
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OdometerThe odometer is one of the Greek inventions. This website Nutical"odometre" Says "The periphery of the wheel inside the wings touched sea level. The box was placed either on a float drawn by the ship or on the ship's internal sidewall with the wheel shaft penetrating the inner sidewall. The wheel rotated according to the speed of the ship. A calibrated disc (within the box), embedded on the shaft of the last gearwheel, indicated the distance traveled."
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FlamethrowerThe invention the flamethrower was invented in 919 A.D. The flamethrower was mainly used for war. The Greeks used the flamethrower on boats to take their enemies out at sea. A bent pipe from the airtight orifice of the beam went down into a cauldron witch contend lit coal, sulphur, and tar.
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CatapultIn 400 B.C Dionysius of Syracuse created a wepon called the catapult. The word catapult means " To throw into". A catapults original design was supposed to work like a crossbow. The catapults typicly threw large stones of up to 500 pounds more than 300 feet in the air.
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