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Hace 3 días · 1770s. 1770: Richard Salter invents the earliest known design for a weighing scale. 1774: John Wilkinson invents his boring machine, considered by some to be the first machine tool. 1775: Jesse Ramsden invents the modern screw-cutting lathe.
Hace 3 días · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
Hace 1 día · Colonial economy [ edit] Main articles: Colonial history of the United States and Economy of the British Empire. Shipping scene in Salem, Massachusetts, a shipping hub, in the 1770s. The colonial economy was characterized by an abundance of land and natural resources and a severe scarcity of labor.
Hace 5 días · "The papers of statesman, publisher, scientist, and diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) consist of approximately 8,000 items spanning the years 1726 to 1907, with most dating from the 1770s and 1780s.
Hace 5 días · Open in viewer. The influential 18th-century naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, coined the term “reproduction,” defining it as the process of combining and reproducing in an embryo the organization and characteristics of the parents’ bodies. Drawing on his animal breeding experiments, he argued that it was possible and ...
Hace 4 días · 1679 Salem house, size 24'x18', to be built for £12. 1679 Boston house, size 34'x20', to be built for £130. 1733 Record describes a 16x22 dwelling house to be built in Cambridge MA for £61and a 20x24 house for £65.The latter ended up 4 feet wider than planned and cost £80 including labor.
Hace 6 días · Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781108163927; 264pp.; Price: £75.00. At the end of December 1756, Admiral John Byng was put on trial for breaching the Articles of War, instructions set out by the Royal Navy in 1749 to establish and regulate martial behaviour.
