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1884 BCE
Berlin conference
Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. The conference was organized by Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of Germany. Its outcome, the General Act of the Berlin Conference, can be seen as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa. -
The start of protectionism
The industrial takeoff of the United States occurred under protectionist policies 1816–1848 and under moderate protectionism 1846–1861, and continued under strict protectionist policies 1861–1945. -
Industrial dynamo
Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826 – 1901) invented the first industrial generator, or dynamo. A deceptively simple-looking machine, it consisted of 30 coils wrapped around a spinning ring of iron -
Telephone
It was called the telephone emerged. It is not easy to determine who the inventor was. Both Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray submitted independent patent applications concerning telephones to the patent office in Washington on February 14, 1876. -
Extraction of oil
When product prices declined, the ensuing panic led to the beginning of a Standard Oil alliance in 1871. Within eleven years the company became partially integrated horizontally and vertically and ranked as one of the world’s great corporations. -
Positive-ignition enginies
Positive Ignition engine (PI)” means an ICE in which combustion is initiated by. a localised high temperature in the combustion chamber produced by energy. supplied from a source external to the engine -
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The second industrial revolution start
Technology has changed the world in many ways, but perhaps no period introduced more changes than the Second Industrial Revolution. From the late 19th to early 20th centuries, cities grew, factories sprawled and people’s lives became regulated by the clock rather than the sun. -
Cinematograph
A three-in-one device that could record, develop and project motion pictures, the Cinématographe would go down in history as the first viable film camera. Using it, the Lumière brothers shot footage of workers at their factory leaving at the end of the day. -
Battle of adwa
Was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa. By the end of the 19th century, European powers had carved up almost all of Africa after the Berlin Conference; only Ethiopia and Liberia still maintained their independence. -
Transformer
A transformer is used to bring voltage up or down in an AC electrical circuit. A transformer can be used to convert AC power to DC power. There are transformers all over every house, they are inside the black plastic case which you plug into the wall to recharge your cell phone or other devices. These types are often called "wall warts". -
Fashoda incident
Fashoda Incident, the climax, at Fashoda, Egyptian Sudan (now Kodok, South Sudan), of a series of territorial disputes in Africa between Great Britain and France. -
Fashoda Incident
It was an international incident and the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa, occurring in 1898. -
Boxer rebellion
Uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yìhéquán), known as the Boxers in English because many of its members had practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as Chinese Boxing. -
Battle of Kousséri
Abah, Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah o Rabih ibn Fadl Allah (Halfaya al-Muluk, raval de Khartum, vers 1842 - 22 d'abril de 1900) fou un senyor de la guerra al Sudan i traficant d'esclaus, que fou sultà del Bornu a l'Àfrica central, fins a la conquesta del Txad pels francesos. Nascut a cap a 1842 en una família Hamaj arabo-sudanesa, Rabah va servir un temps en la cavalleria egípcia irregular i en el transcurs de la campanya d'Etiòpia, va ser ferit. -
Boxer revelion
Uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yìhéquán), known as the Boxers in English because many of its members had practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as Chinese Boxing. -
Taylorism
It's a factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive tasks. -
Maji Maji Rebellion
The war was triggered by German Colonial policies designed to force the indigenous population to grow cotton for export. The war lasted from 1905 to 1907, during which 75,000 to 300,000 died, overwhelmingly from famine.