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Hace 2 días · 1886: Charles Martin Hall and independently Paul Héroult invent the Hall–Héroult process for economically producing aluminum in 1886. 1886: Karl Benz invents the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile (car). [413] 1887: Carl Josef Bayer invents the Bayer process for the production of alumina.
Hace 1 día · The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization expeditions in ...
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Hace 2 días · Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery as it existed in the European colonies which eventually became part of the United States. Slavery developed due to a combination of factors, primarily the labour demands for establishing and maintaining European colonies, which had resulted in the Atlantic ...
Hace 5 días · spinning jenny. James Hargreaves (baptized January 8, 1721, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England—died April 22, 1778, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire) was an English inventor of the spinning jenny, the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine.
Hace 5 días · Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750-1764. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN: 9781137328199; 216pp.; Price: £53.00. Until about 15 years ago the complex history of the links between the north of Ireland and colonial America was something of a brackish backwater in 18th-century Atlantic studies.
Hace 5 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 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 ...
