In the following scenario, which step in the engineering design process is the farmer engaging in? In the Middle Ages, windmills powered grist mills for grinding wheat and other grain. As a farmer, you want to grind wheat more quickly, so you decide to improve your mill by enlarging the size of the windmill arms to generate more power. choose the best solution brainstorm possible solutions perform tests on the prototype modify the prototype based on test results

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

it increase by 12% a year from 1812-1820