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Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
Cyrus West Field was the leading of this project and he talked with Gisborne in order to organise the ideas. The construction made by the Atlantic Telegraphy Company began in 1854 and finished in 1858. Therefore communication between Europe and America improve replacing communication by ship. -
Scientific Literature
Charles Darwin was the creator of the evolutionary biology through a process of natural selection, he had studied natural history and catastrophist geology with Adam Sedgwick. In the United Kingdom he presented the book "On the Origin of Species" in which he opposed to religious believes. Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation it has now become the unifying concept of the life sciences. -
Economy, Sociology and History: The Capital
The Capital includes texts in materialist, philosophy and politics. It was written in London by the economist Karl Marx and a German philosopher. It was a way to organise society and also, they studied the conditions of workers in English factories. Nowadays this is the reason by which workers have their own rights. -
Opening of the Suez Canal
The beggining of this invention was when Ferdinand de Lesseps, former French Consul of Cairo, proposed to build a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez. It was inagurated in a ceremony and it connected the Mediterranean and Red Seas. At the time it was able to navigate the canal grew into one of the world's most heavily traveled shipping zones. -
Breakthrough in Communication: Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell a scientist and inventor with the aid of Thomas Watson, he found the Bell Telephone Company. He started working on a harmonic telegraph and he wanted to incorporate human voice. The first transcontinental phone call was made between New York and San Francisco. Furthermore he patented flying machines and hydrofoils. -
Edison's First Lightbulb
Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp in the laboratory of Menlo Park, New Jersey. After, Edison and his team discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last over 1200 hours and this marked the beggining of commercially manufactured light bulbs in 1880. -
Agreement between Powers to distribute the African Continent.
The Berlin Conference was a meeting that marked the climax of the European competitors for the Scramble of Africa. There was a big rivalry between Great Britain and France, in addition powers negotiated their claims to the territory which was formalized and mapped. This event legitimated and formalized the division of territories, European States had almost 90% of African territory. -
Birth Certificate of the Automobile
Karl Benz a mechanical engineer designed and built the first high-speed practical automobile powered by internal combustion engine in Germany, also called Motorwagen. In the same year, the first public outgoing of the three-wheeled Benz patent motor car circulated on the street. This was a significant development in transport, as we can see today, vehicles don't stop improving. -
Wireless Telegraphy System across the English Channel
Marconi who was supported in his early career in the UK by Preece and the Post Office, adopted his wireless telegraphy system by the British Royal and Merchant Navies. One demostration he did, was sending a signal between two Post Office buildings (from France to England) and had a good result. Consequently of this results, he shared the 1909 Nobel prize and he helped save many lives in Titanic. -
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From 1901 to 2000
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The Brothers' Fisrt Airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright, two american brothers, were the responsibles of the first powered aircraft to South of Kitty Hawk, in North California. The idea of the airplane started with the creation, in which involved Charlie Taylor, of a three-axis control system which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to mantain its equilibrum. Others inventions were the aircraft controls that made flight possible. -
The Flag on the North Pole, the Goal of the Competition
In the beginnings on the 20th century there was a competition between Norway and England to be the first to plant their flag on the South Pole. The winner was a Norwegian explorer: Roald Amundsen because his team was better prepared; they used dog sleds, they wore fur clothing and started his expedition earlier. This advance has allowed us to now more all over the world.
