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Hace 4 días · First practical means of collecting energy from the Sun and turning it into a current of electricity. 1955: The hovercraft is patented by Christopher Cockerell. 1955: The intermodal container is developed by Malcom McLean. 1957: The laser and optical amplifier are invented and named by Gordon Gould and Charles Townes.
Hace 3 días · Duty is easy to conflate in naval history with patriotic service and, indeed, Gill does not entirely escape the semantic pitfalls of the shorthand. However, her expansion of an officer’s duty to include his obligations to his wife, children and extended relations alongside his patriotism illuminates the numerous emotional tensions experienced during war.
Hace 3 días · Parenting in England 1760-1830: Emotion, Identity, and Generation. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780199565191; 296pp.; Price: £65.00. This is an outstanding book, which will open up a new area of research for historians of the family. We have so many good histories of children and childhood, but Joanne Bailey’s book is the ...
Hace 4 días · Others, including Chartier himself, have applied this tool to aspects of culture or popular culture, but (as far as I am aware) mine is its first application to the cultural history of a whole nation. It is certainly the first general history of early modern England to use the concept of ¡appropriation¢ in any sustained analytical way.
Hace 3 días · Known in Portuguese as the Fanfarra da Armada, its history dates back to 1837. Until that year the Royal Brigade, ancestor to the Marine Corps, have had drummers, fifers, buglers and trumpeters in its ranks, a tradition inherited by the current Brazilian Marine Pipes, Drum and Bugle Corps , by itself a descendant of the field musicians of the Royal Brigade that arrived in Brazilian lands in 1808.
Hace 1 día · The economic history of the United States is about characteristics of and important developments in the economy of the U.S., from the colonial era to the present. The emphasis is on productivity and economic performance and how the economy was affected by new technologies, the change of size in economic sectors and the effects of legislation and government policy.
Hace 4 días · Journal of the House of Lords Volume 32, 1768-1770. Covers the period November 1767 to September 1770, a period of increasing hostility between Colonial America and Westminster. House of Lords, Journals. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
