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Newcomen's great achievement was his steam engine, developed around 1712. -
It was the first step in the mechanisation of the loom and significantly increased the productivity of the weavers. -
was a spinning machine, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves -
The spinning machine is an invention from the period of the Industrial Revolution, designed to manufacture yarns or threads from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanised way together with John Kay. -
His machine pumped water from the mine much better and made it cheaper to extract coal. -
La máquina facilitaba la producción de hilo de algodón. -
Napoleon became the new emperor of France and make it the consulate. After he done a coup d’ etat. -
On 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte do his first war, and that war he win, on Marengo (Italy). -
On 1804 Napoleon coronated himself and became the first power of France and the France impery. -
It was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, as the First French Empire finally crushed the Third Coalition after almost nine hours of difficult fighting. -
R. Fulton was an American engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, best known for developing the first steamboat. -
The War of Spanish Independence was a war that took place between 1808 and 1814 in the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which pitted the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against Napoleon Bonaparte, whose aim, after the abdications of Bayonne, was to install his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne and to establish Spain as a satellite state of the First French Empire. -
The French invasion of Russia, also known as Russian campaign and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom. -
They began in Nottinghamshire in 1811 and quickly spread throughout the country -
The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that took place on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium about 20 kilometres south of Brussels, between the French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and the British, Dutch and German troops led by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army of Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher. The battle marked the definitive end of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Stephenson's Rocket was one of the first steam locomotives with a 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for the Rainhill Trials -
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a monumental feat that transformed the United States by providing a coast-to-coast rail link for the first time. From Nebraska to Sacramento -
The unification of Germany occurred in 1871 after Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War -
In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
And don't require as much maintenance as traditional incandescent lights but can offer the same vintage style without the high energy costs. -
The First Boer War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British administration). The war resulted in a Boer victory and eventual independence of the South African Republic. -
A general pact of Europeans powers for colonization -
Leopold II of Belgium conquered the Republic of the Congo for his house -
In architectural history, one structure stands as the leader of a new era—the Home Insurance Building. -
The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo , was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of the Kingdom of Belgium. -
Although in his youth Wilhelm had been a great admirer of Otto von Bismarck, the impatience characteristic of his personality and above all the determination on his part to reign and administer at the same time - unlike his grandfather, who used to entrust the day-to-day administration to the brilliant Bismarck - quickly brought him into conflict with the ‘Iron Chancellor’. -
The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in 1888. Louis Le Prince dazzles the eye with a remarkable display of 4 people walking in a garden, creating this 2.11-second cinematic masterpiece. -
Although the discovery of radio was not without controversy, on 14 May 1897, the Italian electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner Guillermo Marconi made the first radio transmission in history. -
The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda affair , was the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa, occurring between 10 July to 3 November 1898. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile sought to gain control of the Upper Nile river basin and thereby exclude Britain from Sudan. -
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" -
The Second Boer War, also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa. -
Wind, sand, and a dream of flight brought Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where, after four years of scientific experimentation, they achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903. -
A high quality, easy to drive and affordable car (the Model T cost as little as $260, a very reasonable price for the time). -
The Agadir Crisis, Agadir Incident, or Second Moroccan Crisis was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in July 1911 and the deployment -
The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically inferior -
The Second Balkan War was a conflict that broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece. On June 1913. Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counterattacked, entering Bulgaria. -
On 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand,