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  1. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    1: ...ent of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufact...
    3: ...]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
    5: ...ad throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], eventually affecting the rest of the world. Th...
    9: ==Causes==
    10: ...lution]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine.
  2. Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
    4: ...and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Rom...
    14: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Caroline (1740-1741). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the...
    19: ...e of Parma]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Amalie (1746-1804), married [[Ferdinand of Parma|HRH Duke Ferd...
    20: ...; had issue. [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]]: 1765 (abdicated 1790); [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 1790; [[Archduk...
    21: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Caroline (1748)
  3. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    3: ...ce]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlight...
    5: ...tent, while also examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also kn...
    7: ... married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the writer Madame Pu...
    10:
    12: ...allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of the pleasures ...
  4. Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
    19: | align="center" colspan=2 | [[image:LocationAfghanistan.png]]
    23: | '''[[Capital]]'''<br>&nbsp;- Population:<br>&nbsp;- [[Coo...
    50: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]'''
    60: Afghanistan, often called the crossroads of [[Central Asia]], has had a...
    62: ...ate as it is known today came into existence in [[1746]] under the [[Durrani Empire]], but control was c...
  5. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
    13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
    26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
    57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
    73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]])
  6. United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
    3: ... beginning with [[American Revolutionary War|American independence]]. The treaty with the United Kingd...
    5: ... [[1803]], was negotiated by [[Robert Livingston (1746-1813)|Robert Livingston]] during the presidency o...
    11: ..., [[1845]]. On [[December 29]], [[1845]], Texas became the twenty-eighth state.
    15: ...e United States agreed to pay claims made by American citizens against Mexico, which amounted to more ...
    17: ...ed States purchased a strip of land along the Mexican border for $10 million, now in New Mexico and Ar...
  7. January 17 (12233 bytes)
    1: ...'' is the 17th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 348 days remaining (349 in [[l...
    3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
    7: ...rmy at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the [[Jacobite]] ...
    8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to...
    9: ...arleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[South Carolina]].
  8. Capacitor (29664 bytes)
    2: ...'every''' multi-[[conductor]] [[geometry]] has '''capacitance'''.
    4: == Physics of the capacitor ==
    7: ...e plates, at the boundary with the dielectric. Because each plate stores an equal but opposite charge...
    9: ...es. (The air gap is shown for clarity; in a real capacitor, the dielectric is in direct contact with ...
    11: === Capacitance ===
  9. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
    12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
    37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
    47: *[[George Atwood]] (Britain, [[1746]] - [[1807]])
    99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]...
  10. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    39: ...tarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] &ndash; circa [[230 BC]])
    55: *[[John Bahcall]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1934]] &ndash; )
    109: *[[William Wallace Campbell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1862]] &ndash; ...
    110: *[[Annie Jump Cannon]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1863]] &ndash; [[...
    111: *[[Luigi Carnera]] ([[Italy]], [[1875]] &ndash; [[1962]])
  11. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
    65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
    80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
    81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}}
  12. Thallium (12570 bytes)
    17: <td>[[Chemical series]] </td><td>[...
    21: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td><td>11.85 [[kilogram per cub...
    29: <td>[[Atomic radius]] (calc.) </td><td>190 (156) [[p...
    43: ...span="2" align="center" bgcolor="#cccccc">'''Physical properties'''</th></tr>
    48: ...g point]] </td><td>1746 K (2683 ?F)</td></tr>
  13. Zinc (12445 bytes)
    9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | '''Zn'''<br>[[Cadmium|Cd]]&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;
    20: | [[Chemical series]]
    26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
    37: | [[Atomic radius]] (calc.)
    58: ...an="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Physical properties'''
  14. Voltaire (48640 bytes)
    8: ...hout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
    10: ... been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother ...
    12: ... there till [[1711]]. Though he deprecated the education he had received, it formed the basis of his c...
    14: ...r stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it.
    16: ...e [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]], [[1717]], here he recast ''Oedipe'', began the ''Henriade'' and decided ...
  15. List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
    13: ==Alphabetical==
    42: | [[California]]
    61: | 137 m ([[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County]])
    92: | 85 m ([[Cairo, Illinois|Cairo]])
    210: | [[North Carolina]]
  16. History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
    2: ...emy]] by [[Robert Boyle]] in his work ''The Skeptical Chymist'' ([[1661]]), but is often more strictly...
    12: ...explanation of [[Brownian motion]] in the first decade of the [[20th century]].
    14: ... with his theory of [[ion|ionization]]. This was carried much further by [[Ernest Rutherford]], who e...
    20: ...], [[gallium]], and [[scandium]], which Mendeleev called [[Mendeleev's predicted elements|ekasilicon, ...
    23: ...h century saw the exploitation of the [[petrochemical]]s of the earth, after the exhaustion of the oil...
  17. 18th century new (49640 bytes)
    2: ...sted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], in accordance with the [[Anno Domini]]/[...
    4: ...ic event of the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]]]]
    6: ...Enlightenment]] culminated in the French and American revolutions. Philosophy and science increased in...
    8: ...dest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the su...
    15: * [[1700]]: The [[1700 Cascadia earthquake]] (magnitude 9) occurs off the coas...
  18. Leyden jar (3953 bytes)
    1: ...[image:Leydenjar.png|thumb|right|111px|Original [[capacitor]]]]
    3: The '''Leyden jar''' was the original [[capacitor]], developed in the [[18th century]] and u...
    7: ...ed through the lid and ended in a metal ball. Typical designs consist of an [[electrode]] and a plate,...
    12: ...rks. This is the [[triboelectric effect]], mechanical separation of charge in a dielectric. Their wor...
    14: ... went on to be known as the Leyden jar because in 1746, [[Pieter van Musschenbroek]] of the [[University...

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