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industrial dynamo
The dynamo was the first electrical generator suitable for industrial use, as it was the first based on the principles of Michael Faraday. Built in 1832 by the French toolmaker Hippolyte Pixii, it used a permanent magnet turned by means of a crank. -
the telegraph
In 1835 the first telegraph model developed by Morse appeared. Morse's apparatus, which issued the first public telegram in 1844, was in the form of an electrical switch. By means of the pressure of the fingers, it allowed the passage of the current for a certain period of time and then canceled it. -
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First Opium War
The Opium Wars or the Anglo-Chinese Wars were two war conflicts that occurred in the 19th century between the Chinese and British empires. The First lasted between 1839 and 1842. -
the telephone
The telettrofono or telephone was invented in the year 1854 by the Italian inventor Antonio Meucci. He built it to connect his office to his bedroom so he could talk to his wife, who was bedridden with illness. -
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Second Opium War
The Second, in which France became involved with the British, broke out in 1856 and lasted until 1860. -
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imperialism expansion
Social Darwinism fostered imperialistic expansion by proposing that some people were more fit (advanced) than others. The Europeans believed that they, as the white race, were dominant and that it was only natural for them to conquer the “inferior” people as nature's way of improving mankind. -
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first boer war
Were two armed conflicts that took place in South Africa between the British Empire and settlers of Dutch origin
The first of these wars took place from December 16, 1880 to March 23, 1881; and the second, between October 11, 1899 and May 31, 1902; its result was the victory of the British Empire and the extinction of the two independent republics that the Boers had founded in the mid-nineteenth century: the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic -
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The Berlin Conference
Known as The Berlin Conference, they sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people. -
the cinema
When talking about the birth of the cinema, the date of December 28, 1895 is taken as a reference, in which the first films made by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière were projected to the public, in the memorable session held in the Indian Hall of the Great Paris cafe. -
Fashoda Incident
Fashoda incident is the name by which the episodes that took place in 1898 are known when France and the United Kingdom decided to build communication lines destined to connect their respective African colonies in an uninterrupted manner. -
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second boer war
Were two armed conflicts that took place in South Africa between the British Empire and settlers of Dutch origin
The first of these wars took place from December 16, 1880 to March 23, 1881; and the second, between October 11, 1899 and May 31, 1902; its result was the victory of the British Empire and the extinction of the two independent republics that the Boers had founded in the mid-nineteenth century: the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic