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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...assroom Clipart]]]The '''Industrial Revolution''' was the major [[technology|technological]], [[socioe...
3: ...development of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the grow...
5: ...e world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Neolithi...
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-A...
10: ...] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...h as carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals with lower [[melting]] p...
11: ...rite phase, resulting in an excess of carbon. One way for carbon to leave the austenite is for [[cemen...
15: ...orms, then '''[[quenching]]''' the hot metal in [[water]] or [[oil]], cooling it so rapidly that the t...
26: Iron was in limited use long before it became possible to...
28: ...haeological sites more than 1000 miles (1600 km) away. When the [[United States|American]] polar expl... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...]] from [[1725]] until her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in t...
5: ...ienburg]]. Russian forces captured the city, she was captured and forced to work in the laundry of th...
7: Later she was sent to, and became the mistress of, Prince [[Al...
10: ...]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
17: ...er, Menshikov, and the Supreme Privy Council. She was the first royal owner of the Sarskoje Selo estat... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...etrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...Germans in the government and not a single person was executed during her reign.
7: ...oye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married at that time, ...
9: ...leisure to devote to her training, and her mother was too illiterate to superintend her studies. She h...
11: It was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter t... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...t British monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Gre...
10: ...h united England and Scotland into Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
12: ...arlborough]], who led the English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...Henrietta Maria|Queen Henrietta Maria]], and afterwards with her aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henriet...
19: ...d that the Throne was therefore vacant. The Crown was offered to, and accepted by, William and Mary, w... - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
4: ...dently developed there, or whether the technology was transmitted to [[Europe]] by the [[Mongol Empire...
6: ...Europe had progressed to the point that fuel-wood was becoming a [[strategic resource]], and the use o...
9: ...nace, with the lighter materials on top. A valve was opened to allow the slag to pour out, and once e...
23: ...and by the turn of the late 1800s almost all iron was being converted to steel before use. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
130: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]])
471: *[[John William Godward]] ([[1861]]-[[1922]]) - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...ually performed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have excelled...
12: ...re{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearly mapped ...
14: Shakespeare was born in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], [[England]], in...
16: ...status is uncertain). It is claimed that the poet was born in the room with the checked windows.]]
17: ...ather, prosperous at the time of William's birth, was prosecuted for participating in the black market... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ... Holland]] ([[Australia]]) and [[New Guinea]]. He was the first person to [[circumnavigate]] the world...
4: ...ith [[Edward Sprague]] in the [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]] and fought at the [[Battle of Schooneveld]] in...
9: ...], calling at [[Guam]] and [[Mindanao]]. Leaving Swan and 36 others behind, the rest of the pirates cr...
11: ...of Australia, near [[King Sound]]. While the ship was being [[careening|careened]] Dampier made notes ...
16: ...the British [[Admiralty]] and in [[1699]] Dampier was given the command of [[HMS Roebuck|HMS ''Roebuck... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876...
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[1989]...
51: *[[Walter Baade]] ([[Germany]], [[1893]] – [[1960...
65: *[[Edward Emerson Barnard]] ([[United States|USA]], [[185...
88: *[[Edward L. G. Bowell|Edward (Ted) L. G. Bowell]] ([[United States|USA]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
175: *[[Walter Benjamin]], (1892-1940){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
195: *[[Harry Binswanger]], (born 1944)
238: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]], (c. 1290-1349){{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}}
276: *[[Walter Burley]], (c. 1275-c. 1345){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ..., an iconic event of the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]]]]
11: ===[[1700–1709]]===
13: ...700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1700)]]
17: ... region|Baltic]] power after the [[Great Northern War]].
18: ...Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 |publisher=Historyofwar.org |date= |accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref> - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
6: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
18: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]]
19: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]]
20: * [[1769]]: [[Water Frame]]: [[Richard Arkwright]]
39: * [[1798]]: [[Vaccination]]: [[Edward Jenner]]
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