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Cyrus w. Field Cyrus W. Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. It made much easier for the united states to comunicate with other counties -
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From 1854 to 1911
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
It´s a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that people used over the generations trougth a process of natural selection. -
Marx publishes the first volume of The Capital.
it´s a text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics. Marx aimed to reveal the economic theories which support the capitalist mode of production in contrast to classical political economists such as Adam Smith -
Suez canal opens.
it´s an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. In addition, it defines the border between Africa and Asia.Also it´s considered to be the link between the east and the west due to its unique geographic location -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
He turned the phone into a means of mass communication by founding the Bell Telephone Company, in spite of the original idea wasn´t of him. Was important due to the use of them for human communication. -
Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine.
Its purpose is to generate mechanical power from the chemical energy contained in the fuel and released through combustion of the fuel inside the engine. It was created to avoid using horse carriages. -
Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb.
There were other inventors thinking on it but his version was able to outstrip the earlier versions because of a combination of three factors: incandescent material, a higher vacuum and high resistance. -
The Berlin Conference.
it was significant due to the major role it had in the colonization of Africa. Was important because it gave European nations the opportunity to take control of Africa. -
Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel.
He succeeded in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving people who told him that the curvature of the earth would limit transmission to 200 miles or less. -
Orville Wright piloted the first airplane.
the brothers developed their flying machine to make longer-running and more aerodynamic flights with the Wright Flyer II, followed by the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. It had meaning for everyone. -
Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the south pole.
Amundsen's initial plans had focused on the Arctic and the conquest of the North Pole by means of a drift in a ship. Then he changed his plans and began to prepare for a conquest of the South Pole
