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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
38: ...ufacturing and technology began to appear in the last decade of the 18th century, and a number regularl...
55: ...filing, scraping and perhaps grinding with emery paste, was very laborious and costly.
83: ...e to fuel his [[blast furnace]]s at Coalbrookdale 1709, although this was principally due to the nature ...
101: ...ansport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastwise vessels employed to move heavy goods by sea. ...
113: ===Coastal sail=== - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...th ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years (since the [[Bronze Age]]). Since the ...
13: ...nt allotrope is [[martensite]], a chemically [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the...
15: ...ace. The transformation into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower activa... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
10: ...]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]] - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...etrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...rojects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]], particularly in [[Peterhof]] and [[Tsarsk...
7: ...oye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married at that time, ...
23: ..., and summoned all the notables, civil and ecclesiastical, to her presence. So swiftly and noiselessly ...
25: ...hat in her sometimes seemed irresolution and procrastination, was, most often, a wise suspense of judgm... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...continued to reign until her death. Anne was the last British monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she w...
19: ...is Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic dynasty became apparent. Princess Anne's sister and brot...
26: ...[[1700]], the future Queen had been pregnant at least eighteen times; thirteen times, she miscarried or...
31: ...ope opposed him, fearing that the French royal dynasty would become too powerful. The will included a ...
33: ...s [[Queen Anne's War]]) would continue until the last years of Anne's reign, and would dominate both fo... - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: A '''blast furnace''' is a type of [[furnace]] for [[smeltin...
4: ...1150]] and [[1350]]. It is unclear whether the blast furnace was independently developed there, or whe...
6: ...]], and the use of a [[coal]]-derived fuel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less ex...
9: ...heated air was blown into the middle, thus the "blast", allowing combustion in the middle of the mixtur...
23: ... impurities. For some time, the product of the blast furnace was used almost directly as [[wrought iro... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
544: *[[Meindert Hobbema]] ([[1638]]-[[1709]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
976: *[[Andrea Pozzo]] ([[1642]]-[[1709]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...re's literary achievement is not confined to his mastery of the poetic and dramatic form; his ability t...
14: ... to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [[Feast Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[patron saint]] of En...
21: ...to the marriage. There appears to have been some haste in arranging the ceremony: Anne was three months...
25: ...layers hyde'', supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing...
41: ...ands. (Enclosure enabled land to be converted to pasture for sheep, but removed it as a resource for th... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
4: Dampier was born at [[East Coker]] in [[Somerset]] and went to sea at the ag...
7: ...] and captured Spanish ships on the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish ...
9: ...]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling at [[Guam]] and [[Mindanao]]. L...
11: ...[1688]] ''Cygnet'' was beached on the northwest coast of Australia, near [[King Sound]]. While the ship...
18: ...north. Sailing east, he traced the southeastern coasts of [[New Hanover]], [[New Ireland]] and [[New Br... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author
202: *[[Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)|Charles Fehrenbach]] ([[France]], [[1914]... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
311: *[[Hector-Neri Casta]], (1924-1991){{fn|C}} - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian ca...
4: ...a Bastille.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Storming of the Bastille, [[July 14]], [[1789]], an iconic event of th...
11: ===[[1700–1709]]===
15: ...off the coast of the [[Pacific Northwest]]; the coast of Japan is struck by a [[tsunami]].
29: ...d Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies. - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
6: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
38: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]]
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