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Hace 3 días · 1750s. 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod. 1755: William Cullen invents the first artificial refrigeration machine. 1760s. 1760: John Joseph Merlin invents the first Roller skates. 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny. 1765: James Watt invents the improved steam engine utilizing a separate condenser.
Hace 2 días · In the second and third chapters, Banister turns to a series of military trials that took place in the 1740s and 1750s. The first set, the trials of Admirals Mathews and Lestock in 1746-7, which arose from Lestock’s failure to engage enemy ships in the Mediterranean, highlight the debate over whether soldiers should follow common ...
Hace 5 días · Birmingham had been a centre for the printing and publishing of books since the 1650s but the rise of John Baskerville and the nine other printers he attracted to the town in the 1750s saw this achieve international significance.
Hace 5 días · The review in History by diplomatic historian Sir Richard Lodge was a put-down. 'The title Structure of Politics is perhaps too ambitious.' Lodge placed the book on a level with the descriptive Unreformed House of Commons by E. and A.G. Porritt published in 1903, and implied that it would be of interest to local rather than general historians.
Hace 5 días · A consider number of gentleman tried their hand (at making money from) law reporting - with varying degrees of success and quality. By the 1750s there is an improvement in at least some of the quality of the reporting: for example Burrows, Cowper & Douglas.
- Elizabeth Wells
- 2010
Hace 22 horas · Seven Years' War. The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia.
Hace 5 días · This is an ambitious and impressive work, which combines original archival research with a useful synthesis of other scholars’ findings. It considers the cultural significance of the Navy in the period 1750–1815 by analysing key groups’ attitudes to and relationship with the Navy.
