In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
TELEOLOGIES
Noun
teleologies
plural of teleology
Source: Wiktionary
TELEOLOGY
Te`le*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf. F. téléologie.]
Definition: The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. (Biol.),
Definition: the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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