why was scoccer invented?
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The skill of kicking a ball into a small net was used by the Chinese military during the "Han Dynasty". But it became a game more recently. Soccer actually is short for Associated Football. British college students started calling it "soccer" as a shortened word. \n\nAs for WHY soccer was invented, I guess to have a good time and to compete with other people. It improves your foot-eye coordination too...
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This is sort of like the chicken and/or the egg. But The principle (undoubtedly) was discovered, but the implementation of the object was invented - ie it is the combination of axle, hub, and bearing that is the invention, allowing a wheel to be attached to a cart or similar, to make it useful.\n\n The idea of perpetual motion is nothing new. It was discovered and proven in the beginning of the 18 century. The invention was a working system using the gravity force to power the wheel. This made the inventor famous in history. \n\nThus, in summation, I firmly believe that the wheel was discovered just by observing nature but the axle, etc was invented.
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The First (<<<--- key word) Ecumenical Council of the Universal church was convened in 325 CE (ad) by Roman Emperor Constantine. \n\nThe bible was invented at that council because the council adopted the Nicene Creed and anything that disagreed with that creed was rejected, including Arianism.\n\nThe claim that Constantine had no influence on the invention of the Christian bible is ridiculous. He authorized and supervised the council that invented the Jesus is God myth.
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As a smart a*se hedgehog.\n\nSoldering was invented by to Irishmen who went to Scotland.  Hence the famous song " I'll tac the high road and you'll tac the low road " and I'll be in Scotland before you.\n\nCan I have 10 points for being so smart.\n\nTheluckyhedgehog
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Thomas Savery invented the Steam Engine\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsavery1.htm\n\nThe English word ``rubber'' was coined by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, from its use in rubbing out pencil marks. The term ``India rubber'' was given to it because it was first brought to Europe from the West Indies, the land that Columbus and his contemporaries thought was India. The word ``elastomer'' is now generally used to describe materials that have rubberlike properties.\n\nFrom excavations of ruins in Central and South America, it seems likely that rubber was known to the Maya Indians as early as the 11th century. It is reported that the Spaniards under Columbus saw the natives of Haiti using rubber in various ways. Long afterward, in 1731, Portuguese missionaries exploring the Amazon Valley found the Indians there using rubber to make useful articles.\n\nThe first record of scientific importance was written by Charles Marie de la Condamine, who was commissioned in 1735 by the Academy of Science of Paris to measure a degree of the meridian in South America. In his eight years of travel he made many observations and sent home, among other things, specimens of rubber. He wrote, ``The natives prepare watertight shoes of one piece from this material. They also spread it over an earthen flasklike form, and when the fluid has solidified, they break up the earthen form, remove the fragments through the neck of the bottle, and thus obtain a light, unbreakable vessel suitable for holding liquids.''
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Sir Flinders Petrie ascribes the development of cross-bladed shears to the First Century.  In the Fifth Century, the scribe Isidore of Seville, describes cross-bladed shears or scissors with a center pivot as tools of the barber and tailor."\n\n\nPinking shears as we know them today were first invented and patented in 1893 by Louise Austin, of Whatcom, Washington, "to facilitate pinking and scalloping and as a marked improvement over ordinary pinking irons and tools.
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He invented the sandwich...\n:)
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Cuz modern English is an amalgam of influences from many languages and cultures...\n\nThe sc- spelling of scythe started early in the 1400s influenced by the word scissor, meaning "carver, cutter" and scindere "to cut." \n\nhttp://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scythe
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In 1897, a German chemist with Friedrich Bayer and Company was searching for a treatment for his father's arthritic pain and began to research acetylsalicylic acid, which worked well. His discovery resulted in the development of a product introduced as Aspirin
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Sir James Dewar (September 20, 1842 – March 27, 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.\n\nHe was the youngest of six boys, and he lost his parents at the age of 15. He was born in Kincardine-on-Forth and was educated at Dollar Academy and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated. Later he became professor at the University of Cambridge 1875 and was a member of the Royal Institution 1877. He developed a chemical formula for benzene and performed extensive work in spectroscopy for more than 25 years. In 1891 he discovered a process to produce liquid oxygen in industrial quantities. He developed an insulating bottle, Dewar flask, still named after him, to study low temperature gas phenomena. He also used this bottle to transport liquid gases like hydrogen 1898. In 1905 he observed that cold charcoal could produce a vacuum. This technique was quite useful for experiments in atomic physics. He is credited as the inventor of the vacuum flask.\n\nAlong with Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, developed the smokeless explosive whose common name is cordite.\n\nHe died in London.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dewar
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Standard Blackpowder was used a lot, especially after the improvments in fuzes and blasting techniques.\n\nNitroglycerin was well known by this time, though it is highly unstable.\n\nNitrocellulose also came about the same year as Nitroglycerin, but also suffered from the same instability.\n\nTNT was invented in 1863 in Germany and may have made it to the USA/CSA in time for late use in the Civil War.\n\nDynamite was not invented until after the Civil War by Alfred Nobel.
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I'm willing to bet the answer of that is lost to time, and probably happened pretty soon after some primitive person invented the broom. A lot of "facts lists" will say that Lloyd P. Ray did, but that's not true. He did hold a patent in the late 1800s on an improvement on the dustpan, but so do nearly 200 other folks.
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Bernard Lassimone, a French mathematician, applied for the first patent (french patent #2444) on pencil sharpeners, in 1828. In 1847, Therry des Estwaux invented the manual pencil sharpener.
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It is difficult to credit a single individual for the creation of the modern wetsuit. In 1951, while working for the US Navy, Hugh Bradner had the insight that a thin layer of trapped water could act as an insulator. It was a colleague of Bradner who suggested neoprene as a feasible material. However, Bradner was not overly interested in profiting from his design and never marketed a version to the public; nor did he patent his design. The first written documentation of Bradner's invention was in a letter dated June 21, 1951.\n\nTraditionally, most say it was Jack O'Neill (businessman) who invented the wetsuit and started using neoprene, which he found lining the floor of an airliner. However, this is disputed by some aviation experts because neoprene and other rubbers are not fire retardant; therefore, they would not be found on any passenger aircraft. O'Neill went on to found the successful wetsuit manufacturing company called O'Neill. But Bob and Bill Meistrell, from Manhattan Beach, California, claim to have started experimenting with neoprene around 1953. Their company would later be named Body Glove.
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Kevlar was invented by a female chemist.  Every cop whose life has been saved by a kevlar vest owes a debt of thanks to a woman.\n\nIn fact, a lot of us are safer every day because of women.  Auto manufacturers will tell you that a dramatic increase in the number of women buying cars in the 80s and 90s put an intense demand on them to increase the safety of their vehicles, resulting in things like airbags and anti-lock brakes becoming the standard.  Those innovations may or may not have been invented by women, but they were inspired by them.\n\nI'm curious about your question, though: you seem to be saying that one is either a great inventor or one is just dumb (as though there are no other expressions of great intelligence.)  So, what have YOU invented?  Are you a great inventor, or just dumb?
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I'm not sure...but I think I recall him saying he invented it!
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It was invented in 1954.