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Inventions and events IX and XX centuries
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
“On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin was published on 24 November 1859. It saw how all the species comes from the same branches and not appear whit any sense. -
Marx publishes the first volume of The Capital
The first of three volumes of Das Kapital by Marx was published on 14 September 1867, dedicated to Wilhelm Wolff and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime. It is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics -
Suez Canal opens (for the first time)
The Suez Canal, stretching 101 miles from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was officially opened on 17 November 1869. It enables a more direct route for shipping between Europe and Asia. This made easier and cheaper to trade an transport. -
Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the first working telephone in 1876.The telephone was the first device in history that enabled people to talk directly with each other across large distances. -
Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb
Edison and his team of researchers in tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament. This invention enable us to have light every moment we want and faster than a candle. -
The Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference was held in Berlin, Germany, from November 15, 1884, to February 26, 1885.Among those present at the conference were representatives from fourteen different countries: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey, and the United States of America. The aim is to control the colonisation and trade in Africa. -
Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine
In January 29 in 1886 Karl Benz invented the first car with internal combustion engine, in Germany. This form of transport made possible to move faster from one place to other. -
Cyrus W. Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
Marconi transmitted across the English Channel from Wimereux near Boulogne, France to South Foreland Lighthouse near Dover, England, in 1899. Marconi lodged the first wireless telegraphy patent that was used in this event.This event was so important because permit two continents to comunícate easier. -
Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel
On 27 March 1899, Marconi transmitted across the English Channel from Wimereux near Boulogne, France to South Foreland Lighthouse near Dover, England. Since this event people start doing larger travels. -
Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane
On December 17, 1903 Orville made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. This was the first model of plane and the invention that made easier travel from one place to other in a shorter time than in car, train, ship... -
Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole
On 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole, just over a month before Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova expedition. This expedition made posible know about the Poles.
