Adolphe Sax
The eldest of eleven children and the only one born in Dinant, little Antoine-Joseph grew up in Brussels in the workshop of a father who made instruments and had modified the hunting horn.
Photo: Unknown author (Public domain)
From the wheel to vaccines, each card is an invention or a discovery, with the person who made it, its year, its country, its field and an anecdote about its birth.
The inventions that mattered most are the rarest cards. Complete your albums by field, by century, by country or by inventor.
A few cards of the theme
The start of their anecdote. The theme's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Aeolipile
by Hero of Alexandria
A boiler on the fire and two tubes feed a sphere that spins by itself: steam escapes through two bent pipes and makes it turn.
Photo: Katie Crisalli (Public domain)
Archaeopteryx
by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
Near Langenaltheim in Germany, a skeleton over 150 million years old came out of the rock in 1861. A palaeontologist from Frankfurt described it under the name Archaeopteryx, "ancient wing". It was the first fossil found with well-preserved feathers.
Photo: Emily Willoughby (emily.a.willoughby@gmail.com) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The theme's albums
In the game, each album fills up card after card.
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