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THE STEAM ENGINE
Thomas Savery, of England, the steam as a means of power had been first experimented with by the ancient Greeks and Romans thousands of years ago, and the first experimental steam engines had been manufactured as early as the late seventeenth century, it wasn’t until the turn of the nineteenth century that it became the truly practical energy source which was to ignite the industrial revolution. -
The Locomotive
Of course, for the steam engine to have any practical application, it had to drive something, and that something—at least at first—was the locomotive. First appearing in the United States in 1829 with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Tom Thumb demonstration locomotive, by the middle of the century literally hundreds of engines were operating in the country and by the end of the nineteenth century, the entire nation could be crossed by rail in a matter of days. -
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Demonstrates the existence of infrared radiation
Samuel Pierpont Langley American astronomer, demonstrates the existence of infrared radiation at new wavelengths. In France the triumph of the Republic is consolidated, it is instituted as a national holiday on July 14. In the U.S., the Jewish community is over 250,000 people. -
The Telegraph
Though under development in Europe for several years, the telegraph was developed independently in the United States by Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, in 1837. (It was actually Vail who invented Morse code, which makes it difficult to understand why it isn’t called Vail Code.) By 1843 Congress—in a rare moment of far-sightedness—appropriated the money to wire the country and the rest is history -
Graham Bell invents and patents the telephone
Eugen Golstein, a German physicist, experimentally discovers cathode rays. Queen Victoria of England is proclaimed Empress of India. In U.S. General George Custer discovers the main camp of the Sioux and their allies in the Little Big Horn River where he enters into combat as he and his men are completely annihilated. -
The internal combustion engine
While steam remained the primary power source throughout the century, by the end of the 1880’s its successor—the internal combustion engine—was making its first appearance, both in the form of the gasoline powered four-stroke engine and the more efficient diesel engine. -
Edison and Electric Light In the U.S.
Thomas Alva Edison manufactures a lamp with coal filament of a util life lit for 40 consecutive hours, for the first time in practical form the electric light becomes reality by which he receives a patent of invention. In South America, the Pacific War that confronts Chile with Peru and Bolivia breaks out, these last two countries will suffer significant territorial losses. -
Key discovery against malaria Charles L. Laveran
Manages to isolate the parasite that produces the disease. -
Hertzians
Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist, checks Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory and detects the waves that will be known as hertzians. In Austria the 1st Congress of the Socialist Party is held. The first of supranational character. Edison creates the 1st.Effective cinema chamber; the cinetoscope. V. Hilprecht discovers numerous cuneiform tablets in the ruins of Nippur. -
Universal Exhibition in Paris
In Paris, France holds the Universal Exhibition, after which a 300 mts. high metallic tower, known as the Eiffel Tower, will remain as testimony. The 1889 congress of the AIT, in Paris, declares May 1st as the International Labor Day in commemoration of the 'Chicago Martyrs' as a new anniversary of workers' demands in the U.S. of 1866, which they resorted to in bloody repression, causing dozens of deaths. -
The first man to fly with a glider
First gliders The Aleman O. Lilienthal becomes the first man to fly with a glider -
Construction of the Transiberian railway
Construction of the Transiberian railway begins in Russian Asia -
Wilhelm Roetgen discovers the X rays
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Historical flight of the brothers Wright Wilmur and Orville Wright
The first to fly with a biplane propelled to engine; the feat, initially a flight of short duration is concretized on 17 December in U.S., in Kitty Hawk and marks the start of aviation. -
Ford Motors
Its origin In the U.S. the entrepreneur Henry Ford and a group of eleven people founds in Michigan a company that will make history, through the car, its name is Ford Motor Co and its capital amounts to 28.000 dollars. -
Mauritania
Transatlantic ships Mauritania is the first passenger ship with metal hull and steam turbine, together with the Lusitania are the largest transatlantic ships to sail the North Atlantic, both of the Cunard line. U.S. industrialization of cars and motorcycles In the U.S. The production on an industrial scale of the new means of transport known during the last decades is beginning to be organised. Henry Ford begins to manufacture the model T car, the first produced massively in the world. -
First synthetic plastic
The Belgian Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic substance to be named in his honour bakelita. -
First armored In September
In the course of World War I, the British tank Mark I, developed a year before but slow and poorly armed, enters combat at a number close to 400 in the battle of the Somme surprising the defenders and allowing to break the German front. -
Underwater weapons
In 1917 the U.S. submarine USS Skipjack becomes the first ship in its kind to perform the crossing of the Atlantic. By the end of the twentieth century, submarines became an essential component of the military power of the major powers, becoming a strategic weapon by incorporating nuclear technology, in addition to being used very effectively in conventional conflicts
