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2 giorni fa · 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. 1710s. 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston. 1730s
2 giorni fa · Global average temperatures show that the Little Ice Age was not a distinct planet-wide period but a regional phenomenon occurring near the end of a long temperature decline that preceded recent global warming. [1] The Little Ice Age ( LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. [2]
2 giorni fa · In the US, the average annual inflation rate from 1900 to 1970 was approximately 2.5%. From 1970 to 1979, however, the average rate was 7.06%, and topped out at 13.29% in December 1979. [19] This period is also known for "stagflation", a phenomenon in which inflation and unemployment steadily increased.
5 giorni fa · Architectures of Europe: Classicisms & Romanticism, 1700s-1800s: General resources. Recommended resources on 18th century European architectures and cultures, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.
4 giorni fa · Exclusive in design and fit for each client. 1908: The phrase “haute couture” (literally, ‘high sewing’) was coined by the Chambre Syndicale. 1921: The French press created PAIS ( L’Association de Protection des Industries Artistiques Saisonnieres) to protect couture designs from being copied.
4 giorni fa · In the early 1700s, five nuns set out from their convent in Madrid, Spain to travel halfway around the world to Lima, Peru—a journey not all would survive. Their riveting adventure story, seen through the eyes of Abbess Maria Rosa, chronicles a three-year journey through wars, pirates, disease, the high seas, and treacherous mountain passes of the Andes.-
3 giorni fa · Laurence Sterne (1713-68) (fn. 47) lived in or near the city from 1738 when he entered on the vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest (N.R.) until 1760 when, on the publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy in York, he sprang suddenly into national, indeed international, fame and spent most of the remainder of his life away from the city.
