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In 1816, Baltimore became the first U.S. city to install gas streetlights. Paris followed closely behind, in 1820. These early gas lights consisted of gas lanterns placed on poles. Paris laid claim to the world's first electric streetlights. -
The first commercial telegraph system was installed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone in May 1837 between Euston railway station and Camden Town in London. -
More specifically, the United States sought to establish an 'Open Door Policy' in China meaning it wanted equal access to trade in China for all nations.
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Synthetic dyes are manufactured from organic molecules. Before synthetic dyes were discovered in 1856, dyestuffs were manufactured from natural products such as flowers, roots, vegetables, insects, minerals, wood, and mollusks. -
Steel (1856), Zinc (1830), The Nickel (1861), Manganese and Chromium (1900).
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Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples. -
Between 1870 and 1914 countries such as Great Britain or France created empires by conquering land in Africa and Asia
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The period from 1870 to 1890 saw the greatest increase in economic growth in such a short period as ever in previous history. Living standards improved significantly in the newly industrialized countries as the prices of goods fell dramatically due to the increases in productivity.
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In 1872, he obtained a patent for an ingenious system that used air pressure to keep train brakes off; when the train’s engineer reduced the pressure, the brakes slowed the wheels and the train came to a precise stop -
The British Gold Coast was formed as such in 1867, when the British government abolished the Company of African Merchants and seized the land it owned along the coast. -
In 1878, typing visionary Christopher Latham Sholes, a former journalist and customs inspector, came up with the idea of equipping a typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard -
Great Britain annexed Lagos in 1861 and established the Niger Coast Protectorate in 1884. -
The conquest of Tunisia by France took place in 1881, when French troops entered the territory of the Tunisian regency, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and the source of numerous intrigues between European powers. -
Egypt's history under the British stretches from 1882, when it was occupied by British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War, to 1956 after the Suez Crisis, when the last British forces withdrew in accordance with the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954. -
The steam turbine was developed by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884. The invention of Parson's steam turbine made cheap and plentiful electricity possible and revolutionized marine transport and naval warfare -
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Known as The Berlin Conference, they sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people. -
German inventor Karl Benz patented the world's first automobile in 1886. It featured wire wheels with a four-stroke engine of its own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator. -
John Boyd Dunlop developed the first practical pneumatic tire in 1887 in South Belfast. -
The short-lived Republic of Formosa resistance movement was suppressed by Japanese troops and quickly defeated in the Capitulation of Tainan, ending organized resistance to Japanese occupation and inaugurating five decades of Japanese rule over Taiwan.