10 facts about American Revolution

  • Abraham Darby, Coke ovens

    Abraham Darby, Coke ovens
    Coke ovens are used to transform coal into coke.
  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen
    The steam engine is an external combustion engine that transforms the thermal energy of a quantity of water into mechanical energy.
  • Seven Years’ War

    Seven Years’ War
    The Seven Years' War was a series of international conflicts that took place between early 1756 and late 1763.
  • James Hargreaves, Jenny sprinning machine

    James Hargreaves, Jenny sprinning machine
    The Jenny spinning machine was a spinning machine, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, England.
  • James Watt, second steam engine.

    James Watt, second steam engine.
    Patents the steam engine.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    It was an act of protest by American settlers against Great Britain in which three cargoes of tea were thrown into the sea.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.
  • Battle of Concord and Lexington

    Battle of Concord and Lexington
    The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    The Second Continental Congress was a late 18th century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies.
  • USA Declaration of Independence

    USA Declaration of Independence
    The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America is a document drafted by the second Continental Congress which proclaimed that the Thirteen American Colonies had proclaimed themselves a new nation: the United States.
  • George Washington crosses the Delaware

    George Washington crosses the Delaware
    Was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against Hesse's forces.
  • Saratoga Battle

    Saratoga Battle
    The Battle of Saratoga was one of the most important battles fought during the course of the American Revolutionary War.
  • French Treaty of Alliance

    French Treaty of Alliance
    The American Colonies and France signed this military treaty on February 6, 1778.
  • Samuel Crompton, the spinning mule

    Samuel Crompton, the spinning mule
    The spinning mule was a machine used for spinning cotton and other fibers.
  • British surrendered in Yorktown

    British surrendered in Yorktown
    The Battle of Yorktown took place during the American War of Independence between September 26 and October 19, 1781.
  • Edmund Cartwright, power loom

    Edmund Cartwright, power loom
    A power loom is a mechanized loom system driven by a drive shaft.
  • Herny cort

    Herny cort
    patented the puddling process to refine iron.
  • Nicolas Appert, the can.

    Nicolas Appert, the can.
    It consisted of placing the food in a hermetically sealed glass jar and boiling it for a certain period of time
  • Richard Trevithick, steam locomotive.

    Richard Trevithick, steam locomotive.
    steam locomotive is a type of locomotive driven by the action of steam., 1807
  • R. Fulton

    R. Fulton
    the steam-powered Clermont made a 400-kilometer crossing of the Hudson River from New York to Albany.
  • George Stephenson, the Rocket

    George Stephenson, the Rocket
    was one of the first steam locomotives with a wheel arrangement.
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday
    the Faraday disc was the first electric generator.
  • John Deere, steel plow

    John Deere, steel plow
    developed and built his first steel plow
  • Samuel Morse, the telegraph.

    Samuel Morse, the telegraph.
    Using a conductor wire for each letter of the alphabet, a message could be transmitted by connecting the ends of the conductor in turn to an electrostatic machine, and observing the deflection of pith balls at the receiving end.
  • Antinio Meucci, the telephone

    Antinio Meucci, the telephone
    Each telephone was a radio station for the entire city, transmitting signals with high power to be received in the widest possible area.
  • Henry Bessemer, the bessemer proces

    Henry Bessemer, the bessemer proces
    Is a way to make inexpensive steel in large quantities without a furnace.
  • The London Underground.

    The London Underground.
    The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system.
  • Alexander Graham, the telephone

    Alexander Graham, the telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone that had been invented by Antonio Meucci.
  • Thomas alba edison, Emisión termoiónica

    Thomas alba edison, Emisión termoiónica
    is the flow of ions, commonly called thermions, from a metal surface caused by vibrational thermal energy.
  • Karl Benz, motorwagen

    Karl Benz, motorwagen
    considered to be the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine.