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T. Newcomen's steam engine
Newcomen's great achievement was his steam engine, developed around 1712. -
John Kay’s flying shuttle
It was the first step in the mechanisation of the loom and significantly increased the productivity of the weavers. -
James Hargreaves Spinning Jenny
was a spinning machine, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves -
Richard Arkwright’s water mill
The spinning machine is an invention from the period of the Industrial Revolution, designed to manufacture yarns or threads from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanised way together with John Kay. -
James Watt's steam engine
His machine pumped water from the mine much better and made it cheaper to extract coal. -
S.Crompton’s spinning mule
La máquina facilitaba la producción de hilo de algodón. -
Coup d’ etat
Napoleon became the new emperor of France and make it the consulate. After he done a coup d’ etat. -
The conquest of Napoleon
On 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte do his first war, and that war he win, on Marengo (Italy). -
Napoleon's coronation
On 1804 Napoleon coronated himself and became the first power of France and the France impery. -
Battle of Austerlitz
It was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, as the First French Empire finally crushed the Third Coalition after almost nine hours of difficult fighting. -
R. Fulton’s steamboat
R. Fulton was an American engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, best known for developing the first steamboat. -
The Spanish war of independence
The War of Spanish Independence was a war that took place between 1808 and 1814 in the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which pitted the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against Napoleon Bonaparte, whose aim, after the abdications of Bayonne, was to install his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne and to establish Spain as a satellite state of the First French Empire. -
Russian campaing
The French invasion of Russia, also known as Russian campaign and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom. -
Luddoties opposed mechanization in textile industry
They began in Nottinghamshire in 1811 and quickly spread throughout the country -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that took place on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium about 20 kilometres south of Brussels, between the French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and the British, Dutch and German troops led by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army of Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher. The battle marked the definitive end of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Stephenson steam locomotive
Stephenson's Rocket was one of the first steam locomotives with a 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for the Rainhill Trials -
Beginning of Transcontinental railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a monumental feat that transformed the United States by providing a coast-to-coast rail link for the first time. From Nebraska to Sacramento -
Edison’s lightbulb
In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
And don't require as much maintenance as traditional incandescent lights but can offer the same vintage style without the high energy costs. -
First Skyscraper (In Chicago)
In architectural history, one structure stands as the leader of a new era—the Home Insurance Building. -
First moving picture
The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in 1888. Louis Le Prince dazzles the eye with a remarkable display of 4 people walking in a garden, creating this 2.11-second cinematic masterpiece. -
Marconis radio
Although the discovery of radio was not without controversy, on 14 May 1897, the Italian electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner Guillermo Marconi made the first radio transmission in history. -
Wright Brothers first flight
Wind, sand, and a dream of flight brought Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where, after four years of scientific experimentation, they achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903. -
Ford’s Model T
A high quality, easy to drive and affordable car (the Model T cost as little as $260, a very reasonable price for the time). -
Beginning of WW1
On 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand,