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In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, a former French consul in Cairo, struck a deal with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build a 100-mile canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Construction began in 1859, and at first the excavation was done by hand with picks and shovels. Later European workers arrived with dredges and steam shovels. The Canal was not completed until 1869. On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation. -
It was the first electric generator suitable for industrial use. -
The Second Industrial Revolution refers to the interrelated changes, during this period the changes had a strong acceleration. The industrialization process changed its nature and economic growth varied.
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Commanded by Henry M. Stanley, it had the mission of finding Doctor Livingstone, lost in the middle of Africa. -
She was Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland. She was also the First Empress of India. His reign was the longest in British history. -
During the 1870's, two inventors both independently designed devices that could transmit sound along electrical cables. Those inventors were Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray. Both devices were registered at the patent office at the same time. There followed a legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.
The telegraph and telephone are very similar in concept, and it was through Bell's attempts to improve the telegraph that he found success with the telephone. -
Two armed conflicts that took place in South Africa. -
Set of practices that imply the extension of authority and control of one State or people over another.
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Set of negotiations in which the criteria to be followed in order to create an empire in black Africa are established. -
Chemical energy to mechanical energy converter -
It was made up of Annam, Tonkin, Cochin China and the Kingdom of Cambodia. -
The films had few minutes and footage, they deal with simple themes, in addition to sets and cheap costumes. They were also accompanied by a piano and a narrator. -
France and the United Kingdom decide to build communication lines destined to connect their respective African colonies in an uninterrupted manner. -
The Boxer uprising, known in China as the Jihetuan uprising, was a movement that coincided with the Hundred Days' Reform, and ended on September 7, 1901, emerged in Qing dynasty China against foreign influence in the trade, politics, religion and technology of the last years of the 19th century. -
The first flight lasted 12 seconds and traveled 36 meters. It was made by the youngest of the brothers, Orville. -
Conflict over the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan in Manchuria and Korea. -
The American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.