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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys wit...
5: ... [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...l><sub>2</sub></small>— [[Pyrite]]. Iron oxide is a soft [[sandstone]]-like material with limite...
11: ...similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at 1...
13: ...ry similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...er, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...sant. She was married at the age of 17 to a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[dragoon]], having been working at th...
10: ...]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
20: ...4]]-[[1725]]''<br>''De-facto ruler Prince [[Alexander Menshikov]] [[1725]]-[[1727]]''}} - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...etrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...s foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Peters...
7: ...oye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married at that time, ...
9: ...luency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and ...
11: ...hat on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain...
10: ... crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland would co-opera...
12: Anne's reign was marked by the development of the two-party system. Anne personally...
15: ...rom France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who would bec...
17: ...nued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion. - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
4: ...clear whether the blast furnace was independently developed there, or whether the technology was trans...
6: ...ource]], and the use of a [[coal]]-derived fuel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly l...
15: ...chemically to produce pure iron and [[carbon dioxide]], which leaks out of the furnace at the top.
17: ...into [[calcium oxide]] and additional carbon dioxide:
21: The calcium oxide reacts with various acidic impurities in the iron... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...s ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]?
66: ...ntury BC|200s BC]]: Compound [[pulley]]: [[Archimedes]]
74: * [[1st century]]: [[Rudder|Stern mounted rudder]] in [[History of China|China]]
83: * [[9th century|800s]]: [[Black powder|Gunpowder]] in [[History of China|China]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...ualled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world ...
8: ...ence on the English-speaking world shows in the widespread use of [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakes...
12: ...t through the study of considerable historical evidence.
14: ...haps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [...
17: ...an [[alderman]]. Some evidence exists that both sides of the family had [[Roman Catholic]] sympathies.... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
7: ...ific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning...
9: ...of ten vessels. In Mexico Cook died, and a new leader, Captain Davis, took command. Dampier transferre...
11: ...e ship was being [[careening|careened]] Dampier made notes on the fauna and flora he found there. Late...
20: On the return voyage to England, ''Roebuck'' foundered near [[Ascension Island]] on [[21 February]] [...
22: ...as able to save many new charts of coastlines, trade winds and currents in the seas around Australia a... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: ...s [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] –...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]]...
26: *[[Harold Alden]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1890]] – [[196...
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...x|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[1776]], an iconic event of the [[Americ...
6: ...ut with the French revolution, they were on the side of the counterrevolution.
8: ...al revolution]] started in Britain. Despite its modest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radica...
11: ===[[1700–1709]]===
15: ...[1700]]: The [[1700 Cascadia earthquake]] (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the [[Pacific Northwes... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
6: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
7: ...1710]]: [[Thermometer]]: [[Ren頁ntoine Ferchault de R页mur]]
14: * [[1750]]: [[Flatboat]]: [[Jacob Yoder]]
32: * [[1787]]: Non-condensing high pressure [[Engine]]: [[Oliver Evans]]
35: ...[[1791]]: [[Artificial Teeth]]: [[Nicholas Dubois De Chemant]]
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