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The first communication over a telegraph line was made on 24 May 1844 by Samuel Morse from Washington at one end and his assistant in Baltimore at the other. -
In 1847, the chemist Ascanio Sobrero discovered nitroglycerine by accident, as it left him with physical after-effects while experimenting. -
Following the First Opium War in the 1840s, the Western powers concluded a series of treaties with China in an effort to open its lucrative markets to Western trade. -
For more than 30 years, Livingstone traveled the south of this continent, discovered the Zambezi River, found Victoria Falls for the world, searched for the sources of the Nile, fought against slavery and led a life so fearless that it became life in a legend character -
John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile on August 3rd, 1858. John Hanning Speke, an army officer's son from the West Country, was commissioned into the army of the East India Company in 1844 at the age of seventeen. -
On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation. When it opened, the Suez Canal was only 25 feet deep, 72 feet wide at the bottom, and 200 to 300 feet wide at the surface. -
the dynamo was the fist electrical generator to create direct current using a commutator.the dynamos were the frist electric genertarors capable of deilvering energy for the industry -
In 1871, the first commercial thermoelectric plant in history began to function. Created by Thomas Alva Edison, it was located on Pearl Street, in Lower Manhattan, very close to the Brooklyn Bridge. -
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented a device called the "telephone". His experiments with sound to enable the deaf to communicate led to the invention of the telephone. -
In 1877, 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. -
In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph. It is a machine in which rotary registers cause a pencil to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically and electronically. -
The Boer Wars were significant in defining modern South Africa. The peace treaty in 1902 brought the British and Boers together in an uneasy alliance, allowing the formation of a unified South Africa. -
On January 27, 1880, Edison obtained patent number 285,898, an incandescent light bulb with a carbon filament and a vacuum inside. With its 40-hour life, it was the first commercially viable light bulb -
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. -
In 1886, the Patent-Motorwagen circulated through the streets of Mannheim, Germany, considered to be the first internal combustion car in history, patented by Mercedes-Benz on January 29, 1886. -
In 1895, the French brothers Auguste Marie and Louis Lumière invented the cinematograph, giving birth to cinema. -
The Italian Guillermo Marconi made the first radio broadcast on May 14, 1879; It was across the open sea, linking a distance of six kilometers, from the Bristol Channel (England) to Penarth (Wales). -
America's annexation in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. -
he Boxer Rebellion, the Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Militia United in Righteousness -
In 1901, Marconi demonstrated the first transatlantic signal using Morse code and wireless telegraphy. Wireless telegraphy was invented and widely used on ships for fantastic read communication, sending and receiving signals. -
In 1903, two American brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright turned mankind's dreams into reality by building the first true flying machine called an "aeroplane". -
Mining engineer and inventor Richard Sutcliffe introduced the first underground conveyor belt. -
The Panama Canal officially opened on 15 August 1914. Construction of the Canal shortened the route ships traveled when voyaging around the world. And opened the canal on August 15, 1914. It was the most expensive construction project in US history up to that time. Many people died in the construction of the Panama Canal.