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In 1770 the acclaimed composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in germany
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The acclaimed realist author Charles Dickens is born in England in 1812
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By the 1840's a new art form known as photography was starting to emerging. Louis Daguerre had improved on past technologies to make it better
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Anesthetics were first used in surgerys for the relief of pain
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In the 1840s there were a few small colleges for women in england and america
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workers in Germany accidentally uncovered this fossilized neanderthal
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In 1859 charles darwin published his book on evolution to much controversy
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In 1862 Victor Hugo publishes this book to show the reality of poverty and corruption
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In 1866 swedish inventor Alfred Nobel invented dynamite
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By the 1870's a new form of art known as impressionism starting to become popular
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In the 1870's Thomas Edison invented the first electric light bulb
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French chemist Lous Pasteur showed a clear link between microbes and diseases
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The american inventor Alexander Graham patented the telephone
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In france the first schools to train teachers were formed in 1879
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German inventor Robert Koch found the bacrerium for tuberculosis in the 1880's
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The assembly line was introduced to into the factories of manufacturing nations
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Workers in the highly industrialized Britain made up 30% of the population
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By the 1900 there construction companys were using steel to create giant soaring buildings
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The wibur brothers make their wood and clothe ariplane take flight at kitty hawk for the first time
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By the year 1912 there were over a million union members when in 1890 there were just one-hundred fourty thousand members