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Hace 3 días · 18th century 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. 1710s. 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston. 1730s
Hace 3 días · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
15 de may. de 2024 · Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. The process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world, driving changes in energy use, socioeconomics, and culture.
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22 de may. de 2024 · For 18th-century discoveries, around the time that Antoine Lavoisier first questioned the phlogiston theory, the recognition of a new "earth" has been regarded as being equivalent to the discovery of a new element (as was the general practice then).
7 de may. de 2024 · This article traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century through the turn of the 21st century.
- Literature has existed in the Americas for as long as the people who lived there have been telling stories. Native American cultures have a rich hi...
- Notable authors of American literature include: John Smith, who wrote some of its earliest works; Phillis Wheatley, who was the first Black woman t...
- American literature is often divided into six major periods:
22 de may. de 2024 · The term ‘English literature’ refers to the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles from the 7th century to the present, ranging from drama, poetry, and fiction to autobiography and historical writing.
9 de may. de 2024 · Electronic Enlightenment. Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.
