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One Simple History Of 3D Printing
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The History of Adobe; On Pueblos, Fonts, Graphics, && Marketing Clouds
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The Evolution of Fonts
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The Computerization of Flight: From Autopilot to Drones
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A Brief History of Flight: From Dinosaurs To Space
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SABRE and the History of the Travel Global Distribution System
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3D-Printable Roman Denarii Coin and Coin Collection
TLDR: Download the coin from my Thingiverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5908546. I’ve also put all the coins into a collection at https://www.thingiverse.com/krypted/collections/37539515/things. The first coins to arrive in the Italian Peninsula were influenced by the Greeks, as they colonized the coastal areas. Rome was a village as early as the 1,400s BCE and as a city was founded in 753 BCE, although archaeological evidence shows that people inhabited the area as far as 14,000 years ago. It began as a monarchy but by 509 BCE had become a republic. By the third and second century, Rome had been trading with the Greeks, then throughout the Mediteranian, modern Europe, what we now consider…
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3D-Printable Chinese Tang Dynasty-Era Coin
TLDR: Download the coin here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5904625 The Chinese used had shells well before 1,000 BCE as gifts, especially those bestowed upon the people from their aristocracy. Those were used in religious ceremonies and some hypothesize that imitation shells were used as a form of currency as far back as an estimated 700 BCE, around the time the bronze age ended in China. Knife money, or knife-shaped money began to be used in China in the centuries after 600 BCE. Spade money, or money that physically resembles a spade, began use some time after 640 BCE, which actually makes it far older than the stater, but it’s theorized they were used…
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3D-Printable Byzantine Coins (and why they matter)
Just posted a .stl file for a Byzantine Coin at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5902779. The Roman empire had been unified in 27 BCE and the western empire fell in the 400s CE. By then, the Byzantine empire had been established by Diocletian in 285 CE. Constantine I moved the capital to Byzantium, which would then be called Constantinople. The Thracians had settled the area around 1,500 to 1,700 years before – possibly by Byzas, supposedly a son of Poseidon and grandson of Io. Having been settled by the Greeks and then occupied by the Greeks. The colony began as a trading site and then traded hands between city states and the Persian Empire…