Napoleon Period

  • T. Newcomen’s steam engine

    T. Newcomen’s steam engine
    He created a steam engine for the purpose of extracting water from a tin mine.
  • John Kay’s flying shuttle

    John Kay’s flying shuttle
    Was the first step in the mechanisation of the loom and significantly increased the productivity of the weavers.
  • James Hargreaves spinning jenny

    James Hargreaves spinning jenny
    The Jenny spinning machine was a spinning machine, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves
  • R. Fulton’s steamboat

    R. Fulton’s steamboat
    Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat,
  • James Watt's steam engine

    James Watt's steam engine
    Watt's steam engine, also known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine, was the first practical steam engine, becoming one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. James Watt developed the design sporadically between 1763 and 1775, with the support of Matthew Boulton.
  • Richard Arkwright’s water mill

    Richard Arkwright’s water mill
    Installed in water powered factories, the machine could spin large quantities of cotton yarn
  • S.Crompton’s spinning mule

    S.Crompton’s spinning mule
    The machine made it easier to produce cotton yarn and thread.
  • Coup d'etat

    The 18-19 coup d'état of Brumario, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, abolished the Directory in France and replaced it by the Consulate of France. It was on 9 and 10 November 1799, 18-19 Brumario VIII, according to the system of the French Republican calendar.
  • First consul

    Napoleon I Bonaparte was a French military and statist, a Republican general in the French Revolution and in the Directory, and the author of the 18 coup d'état of the mist which made him the first consul of the Republic on 11 November 1799.
  • Emperor

    the coup d'état of 18 and 19 of the mists of 1799 caused the consulate to arrive. Bonaparte, the first consul, subdued the executive, and in 1802 was appointed consul for life. On May 18, 1804, Napoleon was crowned emperor in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris by Pope Pius VII.
  • Austerlitz

    Napoleon Bonaparte's account of his victory at the Battle of Lukashenko and the map of the battle. The battle of Austerlitz, won by the Napoleonic army against the Russian and Austrian coalition forces on 2 December 1805, was Napoleon I's greatest tactical coup master.
  • Prussian campaign

    Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians in an expeditious campaign that culminated at the Battle of Jena – Auerstedt on 14 October 1806. French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin.
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    Spanish war of independence

    Napoleon's treachery to Spain can be attributed to his desire to have control over the Iberian Peninsula and to place his relatives as rulers. In 1808 he forced the Spanish royal family to leave the throne, causing general resistance and the outbreak of war on the peninsula.
  • Luddoties opposed mechanization in textile industry

    Luddoties opposed mechanization in textile industry
    Between 1811 and 1816, thousands of British soldiers fought the Luddites, who were destroying textile machinery in protest at the degradation of their working and living conditions.
  • Waterloo

    On 18 June 1815, the French, British and Prussian armies led by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated him in the Waterloo War. The defeat ended 23 years of war between France and the allied states of Europe.
  • Stephenson steam locomotive

    Stephenson steam locomotive
    Rocket won the Rainhill Trials, which was a competition to decide on the best mode of transport for the railway. Rocket was the only locomotive to successfully complete the trials, averaging 12 mph and achieving a top speed of 30 mph.
  • Beginning of Transcontinental railroad

    Beginning of Transcontinental railroad
    The first transcontinental railway in the United States is the name of a railway line across the United States that linked the city of Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, in the 1860s.
  • First moving picture

    First moving picture
    Scientific American published a series of pictures depicting a horse in full gallop, along with instructions to view them through the zoetrope. The photos were taken by an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between California businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues.
  • Edison’s lightbulb

    Edison’s lightbulb
    He don’t invented the light bulb, he only perfectionate it.
    By using a carbon filament and a partial vacuum inside to prevent it from catching fire.
  • Marconis radio

    Marconis radio
    The Italian Guillermo Marconi made the first radio transmission on 14 May 1879. At the time, he could not have imagined that his invention would be essential for saving lives, and it proved crucial in the case of the rescue of the Titanic castaways.
  • First Skyscraper (In Chicago)

    First Skyscraper (In Chicago)
    The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to its demolition in 1931.
  • Wright Brothers first flight

    Wright Brothers first flight
    Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  • Ford’s Model T

    Ford’s Model T
    The Ford Model T was an inexpensive automobile produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 to 1927.
  • Beginning of ww1

    Beginning of ww1
    World War I, also formerly called The Great War , was a worldwide military conflict, although centered in Europe, which began on July 28, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice.