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Birth of Beethoven
In 1770 the acclaimed composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in germany -
Birth of Charles Dickens
The acclaimed realist author Charles Dickens is born in England in 1812 -
Photography
By the 1840's a new art form known as photography was starting to emerging. Louis Daguerre had improved on past technologies to make it better -
Anesthesia
Anesthetics were first used in surgerys for the relief of pain -
Womens colleges
In the 1840s there were a few small colleges for women in england and america -
First Neanderthal discovered
workers in Germany accidentally uncovered this fossilized neanderthal -
On the Origin of Species
In 1859 charles darwin published his book on evolution to much controversy -
Les Mise`rables
In 1862 Victor Hugo publishes this book to show the reality of poverty and corruption -
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
In 1866 swedish inventor Alfred Nobel invented dynamite -
Impressionism
By the 1870's a new form of art known as impressionism starting to become popular -
Thomas Edison invents light bulb
In the 1870's Thomas Edison invented the first electric light bulb -
Link between microbes and diseases
French chemist Lous Pasteur showed a clear link between microbes and diseases -
Invention of the Telephone
The american inventor Alexander Graham patented the telephone -
Schools for teachers
In france the first schools to train teachers were formed in 1879 -
Discovery of Tuberculosis bacteria
German inventor Robert Koch found the bacrerium for tuberculosis in the 1880's -
The assembly line
The assembly line was introduced to into the factories of manufacturing nations -
Workers made 30% of population in Britain
Workers in the highly industrialized Britain made up 30% of the population -
Steel used to build skyscrapers
By the 1900 there construction companys were using steel to create giant soaring buildings -
First airplane
The wibur brothers make their wood and clothe ariplane take flight at kitty hawk for the first time -
French Labor unions grow
By the year 1912 there were over a million union members when in 1890 there were just one-hundred fourty thousand members