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Hace 3 días · 1880s. 1881: Nikolay Benardos presents carbon arc welding, the first practical arc welding method. [408] 1884: Hiram Maxim invents the recoil-operated Maxim gun, ushering in the age of semi- and fully automatic firearms. 1884: Paul Vieille invents Poudre B, the first smokeless powder for firearms.
Hace 2 días · Founding Fathers of the United States. 1760s–1820s. The Committee of Five ( Adams, Livingston, Sherman, Jefferson, and Franklin) present their draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on June 28, 1776, as depicted in John Trumbull 's 1819 portrait. Location. The Thirteen Colonies.
Hace 2 días · Religion in the United States began with the religions and spiritual practices of Native Americans. Later, religion also played a role in the founding of some colonies, as many colonists, such as the Puritans, came to escape religious persecution. Historians debate how much influence religion, specifically Christianity and more specifically ...
Hace 4 días · Contains primary source documents that relate to the governance of, and activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies of England. [1570-1759] Early American Imprints, Series I (1639 - 1800) This link opens in a new window. Digitized collection of primary documents and images of American life from 1639-1800.
Hace 2 días · Price: £14.99. Dr Nigel Aston, review of The Enlightenment and Religion. The Myths of Modernity, (review no. 415) For a generation Peter Gay’s book on the Enlightenment (a text which perhaps tells us more about the 1960s than the 1760s) informed scholars that Enlightenment and Christianity were polarities and that the defeat of dogma and ...
Hace 3 días · In this sense the turn towards dietary austerity occurring in the 1760s was already political, and had been for 50 years. The common ground shared by political opponents of the Bourbon dynasty centred on material culture: against Court life with its rigidly controlled forms of ostentatious consumption, from dress to banquets, they advocated naturalness: simplicity, transparency and austerity.
Hace 3 días · The 2nd Earl of Egremont enriched the house with Rococo mirrors and antique statues while commissioning Lancelot 'Capability' Brown to landscape the parkland in the 1750s and 1760s. However, it was the 3rd Earl of Egremont who solidified Petworth's reputation as a house of fine art.
