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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...neteenth century enabled the manufacture of more production machines for manufacturing in other indust...
3: ...lway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the ...
5: The effects spread throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], eventually affecting t...
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste ...
10: ...tain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effici... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...arbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...asticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
7: ==Iron and steel==
8: ...free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting...
10: ...ap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...til her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...rfa Skavronska and was the daughter of Samuil Skavronski, a [[Lithuania]]n peasant. She was married a...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]])
10: ...]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]]) - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...etrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...xorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Ras...
7: ...litical opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ...these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by he...
11: ... dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...d England and Scotland into Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
12: ...s husband was [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], who led the English armies in the [[War of ...
15: ... married John Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most im...
17: ...nded the Throne as James II. James, desirous of a Roman Catholic successor, suggested to Princess Anne...
19: ...Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and her descendants were to be i... - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...s used for the production of [[pig iron]] from [[iron ore]].
4: ... or whether the technology was transmitted to [[Europe]] by the [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]].
6: ...a [[coal]]-derived fuel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less expensive.
8: ==Process==
9: ...her valve at the bottom opened to remove the pig iron. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...e]], and his plays are continually performed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few ...
6: ...ays]] attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of ...
8: ...p://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakespeare quotations from Shakespearean plays], the [[List of titles of wo...
12: ...individual whose life can be clearly mapped out through the study of considerable historical evidence.
14: ... also the [[Feast Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[patron saint]] of England. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
7: ...1679]] he accompanied a raid across the [[Dari鮠Province|Isthmus of Dari鮝] in [[Panama]] and captur...
9: ...et'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], callin...
11: ...t year, by agreement, he and two shipmates were marooned on one of the [[Nicobar Islands]]. They built...
13: ==The ''Roebuck'' expedition==
14: ...nail|right|400px|Map of the area charted in HMS ''Roebuck'' in [[1699]]]] - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[...
18: *[[Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs]] ([[Germany]], [[1912]] – [[1954]])
20: *[[Robert Grant Aitken|Robert Aitken]], ([[United States|USA]], [[1864]] &n...
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar...
4: ...Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[177...
6: ...in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the Fre...
11: ===[[1700–1709]]===
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Successi... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
4: ...[[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
6: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
15: * [[1752]]: [[Lightning rod]]: [[Benjamin Franklin]]
16: * [[1762]]: [[Iron smelting process]]: [[Jared Eliot]]
24: * [[1779]]: [[Spinning mule]]: [[Samuel Crompton]]
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