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Hace 3 días · 1790s. 1790: Thomas Saint invents the sewing machine. 1792: Claude Chappe invents the modern semaphore telegraph. 1793: Eli Whitney invents the modern cotton gin. 1795: Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press. 1796: Alois Senefelder invents the lithography printing technique. 1797: Samuel Bentham invents plywood.
Hace 2 días · The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797. Washington took office after the 1788–1789 presidential election, the nation's first quadrennial presidential election, in which he was elected unanimously by the Electoral College.
Hace 2 días · The Federalist Party was a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States. It dominated the national government under Alexander Hamilton from 1789 to 1801. The party was defeated by the Democratic-Republican Party in 1800, and it became a minority party while keeping its stronghold in ...
Hace 3 días · It is New Hampshire’s oldest settlement, second oldest city, first capital, and only seaport. In 1623 a fishing settlement was built at the river’s mouth. First called Piscataqua and then Strawbery Banke, it became a bustling colonial port. The town, incorporated by Massachusetts in 1653 and named for Portsmouth, England, served as the seat ...
Hace 4 días · Accordingly, chapter two considers the emergence of evangelicalism in the English-speaking world beginning with the revival at Northampton, Massachusetts (1734–5) up until the 1790s. While these occurrences were not unique to Northampton, it is argued that Jonathan Edwards (the town’s pastor) viewed this ‘surprising work of God’ as something new (p. 25).
Hace 3 días · Fathers and mothers were left mentally shattered and could experience a loss of self. This crisis of identity was summarised by Hannah Robertson in the 1790s, who (recalling the death of all nine of her children) wrote how she was ‘deprived of my children – abandoned by the world – and deserted (as it were) by myself’ (p. 157).
Hace 6 días · "In the 1790s, novelists rediscovered what Walpole had imagined. The doyenne of Gothic novelists was Ann Radcliffe , and her most famous novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) took its title from the name of a fictional Italian castle where much of the action is set.
