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  1. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    3: ... effect, the reigns of [[George III]], The [[Regency]], and part of [[William IV]]. There was no cut-o...
    32: ...hnicians to undertake it as a matter of state policy. In other countries, notably Britain and America,...
    36: ...tions des Arts et Metiers]]'' and Diderot's ''[[Encyclopedie]]'' explained foreign methods with finely...
    57: ...ing machine]], used for boring the large-diamater cylinders on early steam engines. They were to be fo...
    69: ... step, individual inventors increased the efficiency of the individual steps of spinning ([[carding]],...
  2. Steel (28384 bytes)
    8: ...rust]] in a native state. Since the rise of the [[cyanobacteria]] and their excretion of [[oxygen]] in...
    36: ...ar east. This process appears to have begun in [[Cyprus]] and southern [[Greece]], where iron artifac...
    40: ...nch-hardened steel artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]].
    78: ...al-hungry processes increasingly expensive. In [[1709]] [[Abraham Darby]] began smelting iron using [[c...
    82: ...al Hamlet]] has preserved a water-wheel powered, scythe-making works dating from Huntsman's times. It ...
  3. Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
    10: ...]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
  4. Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
    1: ...etrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
    3: ...6;́вна) ([[December 29]] [[1709]] - [[January 5]], [[1762]]), also known as '''El...
    7: ...ents were not married at that time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge...
    9: ...e in these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one ...
    19: ...d herself as much as possible; but under the regency of [[Anna Leopoldovna]] the course of events comp...
  5. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    26: ...he age of two years. Her only son to survive infancy, [[William, Duke of Gloucester]], died at the age...
    33: ... and would dominate both foreign and domestic policy. Soon after her accession, Anne appointed her hus...
    42: ...asham. The Queen terminated their friendship in [[1709]].
    56: ==Legacy==
  6. Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
    6: In [[1709]], [[Abraham Darby]] developed a blast furnace th...
    25: ...the top of the furnace, further improving efficiency. The largest blast furnaces produce around 60,000...
    27: ...urgist]]s use the name '''cupola''' to refer to a cylindrical shaft type of [[blast furnace]] used for...
  7. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    130: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
    203: * [[1831]]: [[Reaper]]: [[Cyrus McCormick]]
    310: * [[1885]]: [[Motor cycle]]: [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]...
    314: * [[1886]]: Improved [[phonograph cylinder]]: Tainter & Bell
    333: * [[1893]]: [[Photographic gun]]: [[E.J. Marcy]]
  8. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
    303: *[[Jan Cybis]] ([[1897]]-[[1972]])
    304: *[[Cydney]] ([[1909]]-[?])
    484: *[[Maurycy Gottlieb]] ([[1856]]-[[1879]])
    520: *[[Tracy Harris]] ([[1958]]-)
  9. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    4: ...sal figure in world literature, Shakespeare's legacy and influence continues to be felt in all parts o...
    67: ...the first truly scholarly text for the plays in [[1709]], and [[Edmund Malone|Edmund Malone's]] ''Varior...
    77: ...s necessarily rely on [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] to explain the lack of direct historic...
    141: ** ''[[Cymbeline]]'' * (normally classed as a comedy today)
    153: ...s might explain its incoherent plot and unusually cynical tone.
  10. William Dampier (7308 bytes)
    9: ...Dampier transferred to Captain Swan's ship, the ''Cygnet'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out ...
    11: Early in [[1688]] ''Cygnet'' was beached on the northwest coast of Austr...
    34: Dampier returned to England in [[1707]] and in [[1709]] his ''A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland...
    37: ...ccessful: Selkirk was rescued on [[2 February]] [[1709]], and the expedition amassed nearly &pounds;200,...
    53: ...yage to New Holland'', (Part 1 [[1703]], Part 2 [[1709]])
  11. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    32: *[[Andronicus of Cyrrhus]]
    302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]])
    331: *[[Savvas Michael Koushiappas]] ([[Cyprus]], [[1972]] – )
    675: *[[Savvas M. Koushiappas]] ([[physicist]]) ([[Cyprus]], [[1971]] – )
    681: *[[John Bird (astronomer)|John Bird]] ([[1709]] ? [[1776]])
  12. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    96: *[[Aristippus|Aristippus the Elder of Cyrene]], (c. 435-366 BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    244: *[[Percy Williams Bridgman]], (1882-1961){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    308: *[[Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)|Nancy Cartwright]] (born 1943){{fn|O}}
    413: *[[Cyril of Alexandria]], (376-444)
    442: *[[Demetrius the Cynic]]
  13. 18th century new (49640 bytes)
    11: ===[[1700–1709]]===
    30: * [[1708]]-[[1709]]: [[Famine]] kills one-third of [[East Prussia]]...
    31: * [[Great Frost of 1709]]: Coldest winter in 500 years.
    32: * [[1709]]: [[Hotaki dynasty]] founded in Afghanistan.
    33: * [[1709]]: [[Charles XII of Sweden]] flees to Ottoman Emp...
  14. 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
    6: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]

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