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In 1870, the first conveyor belt was assembled in the Cincinnati slaughterhouse, thus beginning mechanized chain production.Invented by Henry Clay Flick. -
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, will be a rapid phase of industrialization between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
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In 1871, the first commercial thermoelectric plant in history began to function. Created by Thomas Alva Edison, it was located on Pearl Street, in Lower Manhattan, very close to the Brooklyn Bridge. -
Age of Imperialism. The Age of Imperialism, a time period beginning around 1760, saw European industrializing nations, engaging in the process of colonizing, influencing, and annexing other parts of the world. 19th century episodes included the "Scramble for Africa."
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On January 14, 1876, Graham Bell registered the patent for the telephone and thus it has evolved. In 1876, on January 14, inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone: a bulky device with a curved mouthpiece and an earpiece connected by wires. It looked very different from today's cell phones. -
On January 27, 1880, exactly 142 years ago today, Edison obtained patent number 285,898, an incandescent light bulb with a carbon filament and a vacuum inside. With its 40-hour life, it was the first commercially viable light bulb. Edison made 1,000 attempts to invent the light bulb. -
It regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the period of New Imperialism, and coincided with the sudden emergence of Germany as an imperial power. -
Nikolaus Otto would be the one who patented a modern concept of the internal combustion engine in 1886. It was the four-stroke engine and its propulsion capacity and efficiency was so valuable that it began to be incorporated into almost any type of transport. -
El primer automóvil con motor de combustión interna se atribuye a Karl Friedrich Benz en la ciudad de Mannheim en 1886 con el modelo Benz Patent-Motorwagen. -
Although the discovery of radio is not without controversy, on May 14, 1897, the Italian electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner Guillermo Marconi made the first radio transmission in history. Marconi patented it in 1904. -
The Fashoda incident or crisis was the climax of the imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa. -
A poem by Rudyard Kipling explaining that white Europeans had an obligation to share their culture with less fortunate people. -
The discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer republics in the 1880s further intensified rivalry, especially when British subjects flooded the Boer territories in search of wealth. -
Orville Wright. Man realized his dream of flight more than 100 years ago, in 1903. On May 22, 1906, the United States of America granted Patent No. 821,393 to Wilber and Orville Wright's flying machine. It was an invention that was going to change the world. -
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. -
The Portsmouth Treaty formally ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. -
They persuaded the British to make Siam a shocking state between Britain and France -
He made sure that ships did not have to cross South Africa, that they could pass through a canal in Central America. -
A military conflict fought mainly between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945.