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sep 20, 1000 BC - Abacus and steel

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The abacus is used as an everyday method of calculation by Phoenicians and Babylonians

Iron reheated with carbon is found to be much harder, being transformed into steel

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sep 20, 1000 BC
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~ 3029 years ago

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