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the first printing of Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, sold out in a matter of days. Darwin considered the volume a short abstract of the ideas he'd been developing about evolution by natural selection for decades
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Karl Benz was a German mechanical engineer who designed and, in 1885, built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine, Karl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gasoline engine”. The patent,can be considered as the birth certificate of the car, in July 1886
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Tthe British ship Great Eastern succeeded in laying the first permanent telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean. Cyrus West Field was the object of much praise on both sides of the Atlantic for his persistence in accomplishing what many thought to be an impossible undertaking.
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According to Marx, capital is a social relation of production that systematically provokes conflicts between the capitalist class and the wage earner. Under capitalism, the ownership of the means of production is in the hands of the bourgeoisie, while the work is carried out by the proletariat.
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The Suez Canal history starts with the First Concession and the other concessions that followed all the way to the groundbreaking then the completion of the digging on August 18th, 1869, and the inauguration ceremony on November 17th, 1869.
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Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his new invention: the telephone. bell creates an harmonic telegraph, a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.
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By January 1879, at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. Still, the lamp only burned for a few short hours.
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In 1884, the Berlin Conference was convened to discuss African colonization, with the aim of setting up international guidelines for making claims to African land to avoid conflict between European powers.
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Marconi's greatest achievement came on December 12, 1901, when he received a message sent from England at St. John's, Newfoundland. The transatlantic transmission won him worldwide fame.
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Brief Description. Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls.
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On December 14, 1911, Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott .Roald Amundsen was a respected Norwegian explorer who was determined to beat the British expedition and be the first to reach the South Pole.
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