the making of the modern world

By Tino HK
  • A more efficient steam engine has been designed

    A more efficient steam engine has been designed
    James Watts designs a more efficient steam engine
  • The first fleet

    The first fleet
    The first fleet arrives in Botany Bay, beginning British Settlement in Australia
  • First Battery to store electrical currents

    First Battery to store electrical currents
    Alessandro Volta invents a battery to store electrical current; the unit of electric potential, volt, is named after him
  • First passenger railway

    First passenger railway
    George Stephenson builds the first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester
  • britain demanding political reform

    britain demanding political reform
    Publication of the people's Charter in Britain demanding political reform, including the right to vote for every man from the age of 21
  • Discovery of gold near Bathurst

    Discovery of gold near Bathurst
    Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst in New South Wales, causing gold rushes around Australia
  • The first telephone invented

    The first telephone invented
    Alexander Graham Bell was the man who invented the first telephone. Alexander was trying to continue with his fathers work on visible speech for the deaf. His education was mainly based on sound. Alexander worked with worked with Thomas Watson on the design of the first Practical telephone.
  • Federation of Australia

    Federation of Australia
    The six colonies NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia form one nation
  • The first controlled, powered, man carrying aircraft

    The first controlled, powered, man carrying aircraft
    The Write brothers Orville and Wilbur acheive the first controlled, powered, man carrying aircraft.
  • First Ford model T automobile

    First Ford model T automobile
    Henry Ford produces his first Ford Model T automobile
  • The invention of coloured television

    The invention of coloured television
    Hoannes adamian was the man who designed the first coloured television. He was a petrol Businessman. He studied at the universities of Zurich and berlin. He designed systems of black and white, as well as colour t.v. He developed theoretical works on colour t.v from M. Le Blanc and P. Nipkov and he became the first person to acheive practical results of colour t.v
  • The Titanic sinks

    The Titanic sinks
    The world's largest steamship, the titanic, hits an iceberg in the north-west of the Atlantic Ocean and sinks. 1517 people die.
  • The first game console

    The first game console
    Engineer, Ralph H Baer worked for Sanders Associates Inc. and began to investigate how to play games on television. Ralph and his colleagues Bill Harrison and Bill Rusch created several game tests units. This result was the "bown box", a prototypemof the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system. Sanders licensed the system to magnovox. In 1972, Magnavox released the design as the Magnavox Odyssey, paving the way for all video game systems that followed.
  • The man who invented the FM radio

    The man who invented the FM radio
    Edwin Armstrong was studying at columbia university in 1912 when he devised a feedback curcuit that brought in signals with a thousand fold amplification. This circuit was the heart of all television and radio broadcasting. He earned the Franklin Medal, the highest U.S scientific honor.
  • The man who invented the first railway air brake

    The man who invented the first railway air brake
    Goerge Westinghouse was the man man who invented the railway airbrake. He was an industrial manager. He formed and directed more than 60 his and and others inventions during his lifetime. His electric company became one of the greatest electric manufacturing organizations in the United States.