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Opening of China
The Chinese economic reform or reform and opening-up, known in the West as the opening of China. -
Livingstone's expedition (Victoria Falls)
Livingstone resigned from the London Missionary Society, which wanted him to concentrate his energies on missionary work, soon after discovering the Falls, planning his own programme to bring salvation to the people of the Zambezi. -
Discovery of the source of the Nile
John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile on August 3rd, 1858. -
radio invention
radio technology actually began as "wireless telegraphy."
In 1866, Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, successfully demonstrated "wireless telegraphy." -
Opening of the Suez Canal
The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony attended by French Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III. -
Industrial dynamo
The dynamo was the fist electrical generator to create direct current using a commutator. -
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Second Industrial Revolution
The second industrialization where the world entered. -
The Air Brake
Westinghouse’s air brakes helped make possible the rapid growth of railroads as a safe, reliable means to transport people and goods across the country. -
Telephone
On 1876 a 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone.
He worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. -
Victoria Empress of India
Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India. India was already under crown control after 1858, but this title was a gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain. -
Ligth bulb
An electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb with a vacuum or inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation. -
Height of European immigration, Anglo-Boer Wars
Was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa. -
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Height of imperialism
European states began an intense scramble for overseas territory. Imperialism, the extension of a nation's power over other lands, was not new. -
Positive-ignition engines
An internal combustion engine in which combustion is initiated by a localised high temperature in the combustion chamber produced by energy supplied from a source external to the engine. -
Invention of the combustion engine
The oil extraction began in the mid-19th century. The invention of the combustion engine led to its use for cars (1885) and lorries. -
French Indochina
Was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in -
Cinematograph
An early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. -
Transformer
It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. -
The Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China, The group practiced certain boxing and calisthenic rituals in the belief that this made them invulnerable. -
Taylorism. First flight by the Wright brothers.
a factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive tasks. -
Russo-japanese War over Manchuria
It was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. -
Opening of the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal opened to traffic with passage of the SS Ancon. First conceived in the 1600s, actual construction work was first begun by a French company in 1880.