In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
PALEOTHERIUM
Pa`le*o*the"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)
Definition: An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Palæotherium.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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