XIX-XX centuries

  • Cyrus W. Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean

    Cyrus W. Field  laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
    The first cable laid across the Atlantic in 1858, it was laid by Cyrus W. Field and other people that know things about the ocean, Cyrus W. Field and the Atlantic Telegraph Company were behind this construction, the proyect began in 1854 and was completed in 1858.
  • Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
    On the Origin of Species is a book by Charles Darwin, is considered one of the forerunners of scientific literature and the foundation of the theory of biology evolutionary. Darwin included a lot of ideas, annatomists, the evidence that the diversity of life arose from a common descent and more other things.
  • Marx publishes the first volume of The Capital

    Marx publishes the first volume of The Capital
    The Volume I was written by Karl Marx, is a treatise written in the tradition of classical political economy, the book aplies class analysis to capitalism focusing upon production processes, making the capitalist mode of production historically specific.
  • Suez Canal opens (for the first time)

    Suez Canal opens (for the first time)
    The Suez Canal was created because the Egyptian Government wanted it, streching 101 miles from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was officially opened in a lavish ceremony. The canal was opened to navigation and Ferdinand de Lesseps would later attemp, unsuccessfully, to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. It is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt.
  • Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
    In 1876 Bell was able to conduct a demonstration of this telephone by using two telegraph offices that were five miles apart. Bell was able to conduct the world's first phone call in front of an audience of amazed onlookers. With that the experiment of Bell was approved and help the form of life.
  • Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb.

    Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb.
    The first practical incandescent bulb. Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, they tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent eléctrico light. It worked by passing electricity trough a thin platinum filament.
  • The Berlin Conference

    The Berlin Conference
    The Berlin Conference is also known as the Congo Conference or West África Conference, this regulated the European colonization and trade in África during the New Imperialism a period of emerge as an imperial power, the Conference was organized by Otto Bismarck the first chancellor of Germany.
  • Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine

    Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine
    Karl Benz a German mechanical engineer, he designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. In 1886, Benz received the first patent for a gas-fueled car. This produce a better life for all the people.
  • Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel

    Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel
    On 27 March 1899 Marconi transmited across the English Channel his radio signals and to demostrate their practical value. He established stations on the south coast and the Isle of Wight, successfully exchanged signals with ships and in March 1899 transmitted the first wireless message across that canal. He has the ability to transmit the waves of a particular frequency and also receive.
  • Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane

    Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane
    The first manned flight, Orville Wright takes off into a 27 mph. The distante covered was 120 feet; time aloft was 12 seconds. The Wright' s Brothers flew it four times near Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today the airplane is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.
  • Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole

    Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole
    The Amundsen Expedition was led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, he and four members were joined for reached the Pole. Five weeks in advance of the group led by Englishman Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition Terra Nova. Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, other four companions died on the return trip