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Groundbreaking developments lead to a technologically sophisticated society; the first data-recording device from over 5,000 years ago; how weaving creates binary code; electric cars are invented 100 years earlier than originally imagined.
Groundbreaking developments lead to a technologically sophisticated society; the first data-recording device from over 5,000 years ago; how weaving creates binary code; electric cars are invented 100 years earlier than originally imagined.
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