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2 giorni fa · 18th century 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
4 giorni fa · Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. The process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world, driving changes in energy use, socioeconomics, and culture.
26 mag 2024 · The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid technological change that began in Britain in the mid-18th century and soon spread to other parts of Europe and North America. Over the course of about a century, an onslaught of new inventions transformed the way goods were produced and ushered in a new age of economic growth, rising ...
26 mag 2024 · From illuminating our homes and transporting us speedily to soothing our aches and delighting our taste buds, Victorian inventions reshaped nearly every aspect of daily life. Some of their innovations were hit-or-miss – like Judson‘s fussy first zipper or Booth‘s behemoth vacuum.
27 mag 2024 · Other notable 18th-century English horologists include John Arnold and Thomas Earnshaw, who devoted their careers to constructing high-quality chronometers and so-called 'deck watches', smaller versions of the chronometer that could be kept in a pocket.
The mid-20th century witnessed the spread of the Industrial Revolution into hitherto nonindustrialized areas such as China and India. The technological and economic aspects of the Industrial Revolution brought about significant sociocultural changes.
2 giorni fa · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
