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Hace 2 días · 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 4 días · Analyzing a trove of 4,200 logbooks from New England whaling vessels, a group of researchers in New England has begun turning all those qualitative descriptions into quantitative data. Using the ...
Hace 4 días · May 15, 2024, 5:26 AM ET (The Guardian) Future Made in Australia: $23bn for ‘biggest transformation since Industrial Revolution’. Top Questions. Where and when did the Industrial Revolution take place? How did the Industrial Revolution change economies? How did the Industrial Revolution change society?
Hace 5 días · Prehistoric. Pre-Industrial. 1800s to Today. The Future. In 2022, the average life expectancy in the United States was 78 years (75 years for males and 80 years for females). That's a big jump from 1900 when the average life expectancy for a newborn in the U.S. was 47 years.
Hace 3 días · The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire amongst supporters of the claimant Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties.
Hace 1 día · The Saint-Domingue slave revolt in 1791. In 1789, the most populous French colonies were Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), Martinique, Guadeloupe, the Île Bourbon (Réunion) and the Île de la France. These colonies produced commodities such as sugar, coffee and cotton for exclusive export to France.
Hace 22 horas · Only in the early 1700s do we get people who come anything close to the idea of ‘enemies of all’, and yet even then many of them remain connected to colonial society. Rather than pirates being sensational and outlandish, it is their connections with society, and their impact on history, that really interests me.
