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The Chinese economic reform or reform and opening-up, known in the West as the opening of China. -
Livingstone resigned from the London Missionary Society, which wanted him to concentrate his energies on missionary work, soon after discovering the Falls, planning his own programme to bring salvation to the people of the Zambezi. -
John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile on August 3rd, 1858. -
radio technology actually began as "wireless telegraphy."
In 1866, Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, successfully demonstrated "wireless telegraphy." -
The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony attended by French Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III. -
The dynamo was the fist electrical generator to create direct current using a commutator. -
The second industrialization where the world entered.
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Westinghouse’s air brakes helped make possible the rapid growth of railroads as a safe, reliable means to transport people and goods across the country. -
On 1876 a 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone.
He worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. -
Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India. India was already under crown control after 1858, but this title was a gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain. -
An electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb with a vacuum or inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation. -
Was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa. -
European states began an intense scramble for overseas territory. Imperialism, the extension of a nation's power over other lands, was not new.
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An internal combustion engine in which combustion is initiated by a localised high temperature in the combustion chamber produced by energy supplied from a source external to the engine. -
The oil extraction began in the mid-19th century. The invention of the combustion engine led to its use for cars (1885) and lorries. -
Was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in -
An early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. -
It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. -
Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China, The group practiced certain boxing and calisthenic rituals in the belief that this made them invulnerable. -
a factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive tasks. -
It was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. -
The Panama Canal opened to traffic with passage of the SS Ancon. First conceived in the 1600s, actual construction work was first begun by a French company in 1880.