10 facts about the American Revolution

  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby
    A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen
    It’s an external combustion engine that converts the thermal energy of a quantity of water into mechanical energy.
  • Seven Years´War

    Seven Years´War
    The Seven Years' War was a global conflict that involved most of the European great powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific.
  • James Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves
    The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • James Watt

    James Watt
    The Watt steam engine design became synonymous with steam engines, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt design.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates 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 military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War.
  • USA Declaration of Independence

    USA Declaration of Independence
    The United States Declaration of Independence, is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress
  • George Washington crosses the Delaware

    George Washington crosses the Delaware
    George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against Hessian forces, which were German auxiliaries aiding the British, in Trenton, New Jersey.
  • Saratoga Battle

    Saratoga Battle
    It marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  • French Treaty of Alliance

    French Treaty of Alliance
    The Treaty of Alliance was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States formed amid the American Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
  • Samuel Crompton

    Samuel Crompton
    The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres.
  • British surrendered in Yorktown

    British surrendered in Yorktown
    It was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington with support from Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau over the British Army commanded by British Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
  • Edmund Cartwright

    Edmund Cartwright
    El telar mecánico, fue el resultado de la evolución del telar manual, utilizando una unidad mecánica para conectar y sincronizar todos los mecanismos.
  • Henry Cort

    Henry Cort
    The puddling process converted pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and stirring it in a furnace, without using charcoal.
  • Louis XVI calls the Estates General

    Louis XVI calls the Estates General
    The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath
    The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob.
  • Louis XVI amd Marie Antoinette captured at Varennes

    Louis XVI amd Marie Antoinette captured at Varennes
    The king and his family were eventually arrested in the town of Varennes, 31 miles from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
  • Execution of Louis XVI

    Execution of Louis XVI
    Louis XVI, king of France, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.
  • Nicolas Appert

    Nicolas Appert
    Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container
  • Coup d´etat of Brumaire

    Coup d´etat of Brumaire
    This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate.
  • Richard Trevithick, the 1. steam locomotive

    Richard Trevithick, the 1. steam locomotive
    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder.
  • Napoleon crowned as emperor

    Napoleon crowned as emperor
    On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris.
  • Victory of Austerlitz

    Victory of Austerlitz
    The decisive attacks on the Allied center by St. Hilaire and Vandamme split the Allied army in two and left the French in a golden tactical position to win the battle.
  • R. Fulton, steamboat

    R. Fulton, steamboat
    A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
  • Beginning of the Spanish War of Independence

    Beginning of the Spanish War of Independence
    With Napoleon dominating Europe in battle, Carlos IV and his valildo decided that they should ally with France and Napoleon rather than fight against them. The alliance failed and the war against France started.
  • Battle of Bailen

    Battle of Bailen
    The Battle of Bailén was part of the Peninsular War in which the Spanish people took up arms to fight against French occupation.
  • Luddite rebellion in Great Britain

    Luddite rebellion in Great Britain
    The Luddites were a secret oath-based organisation[1] of English textile workers in the 19th century who formed a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery.
  • Battle of the Nations

    Battle of the Nations
    After four days of fighting and seeing the battle lost, Napoleon ordered a retreat, but his entire rearguard fell into the hands of his enemies.
  • Exile of Napoleon in Elba

    Exile of Napoleon in Elba
    French Emperor Napoleon was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication following the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo
    The French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, was defeated by the British and Prussian armies in the War of Waterloo. The defeat ended the 23-year war between France and the Allied European states.
  • Napoleon´s death at St. Helena

    Napoleon´s death at St. Helena
    Napoleon was only 51 when he died on the island of St. Helena, where he was out of power and exiled from his beloved France.
  • George Stephenson the world’s first public railway line.

    George Stephenson the world’s first public railway line.
    He built the world's first public railway line to use steam locomotives and the first passenger railway line to use steam locomotives.
  • Michael Faraday, the first electric motor.

    Michael Faraday, the first electric motor.
    Faraday invented the first electric motor, the first transformer, the first electric generator and the first dynamo, so Faraday can undoubtedly be called the father of electrical engineering.
  • John Deere, steel plow.

    John Deere, steel plow.
    It’s a farm implement consisting of a strong blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing.
  • Samuel Morse, telegraphy.

    Samuel Morse, telegraphy.
    Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
  • Antonio Meucci, telephone.

    Antonio Meucci, telephone.
    The telephone is a telecommunication device designed to transmit acoustic signals over a distance by means of electrical signals.
  • Henry Bessemer, The Bessemer process.

    Henry Bessemer, The Bessemer process.
    The Bessemer process was the first chemical manufacturing process for the mass production of good quality, low-cost, ingot-cast steel from pig iron.
  • First subway of the world in London, Charles Pearson

    First subway of the world in London, Charles Pearson
    The first subway system was proposed for London by Charles Pearson.
  • Charles Tellier, refrigerating.

    Charles Tellier, refrigerating.
    A refrigerating machine is a cyclic device that transfers thermal energy from a low temperature region to a high temperature region, thanks to the work provided from the outside, usually by an electric motor.
  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone that had been invented by Antonio Meucci.

    Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone that had been invented by Antonio Meucci.
    Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery. Days later, he made the first ever telephone call to his partner, Thomas Watson.
  • Thomas Alba Edison, electric bulb

    Thomas Alba Edison, electric bulb
    An electric bulb is a source that produces artificial light. In an incandescent lamp, an electrical conductor, namely tungsten, is heated by an electric current until it is white red.
  • Karl Benz, Motorwagen.

    Karl Benz, Motorwagen.
    The Benz Patent-Motorwagen is an automobile model built by Carl Benz in 1885, considered to be the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine.
  • Wright Brothers, aviation.

    Wright Brothers, aviation.
    Aviation means the design, development, manufacture, production, operation and use for private or commercial purposes of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft.