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All these events occured between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. All of them have great historical importance and the people involved in the events will surely be remembered.
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Cyrus W. Field led The Atlantic Telegraph Company, which laid the first telegraph cable across the Athlantic Ocean, from Valentia in western Ireland to Bay of Bulls, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The construction began in 1854 and ended in 1858. However, this cable worked for just three weeks. This event was very important because it was the first project of this type to yield practical results. -
Charles Darwin published this book in London on 24 November 1859, that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. This theory states that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. -
Karl Marx published in Germany, on September 14, 1867, The Capital, a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy where he criticizes the political economy and politics. He showed here is ideas about economic equally for all people. -
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. It was built by the Suiz Canal Company, created by Ferdinand de Lesseps. Its construction started in 1859 and ended on 17 November 1869. The canal has played an important military strategic role as a naval short-cut and choke point and is a route of trade between Europe and Asia. -
Many people worked in the invention of the telephone but Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent it, in 1876, in the U.S. This event is significant as it made it possible for people to communicate with each other in an efficient way. -
Thomas Edison invented in Menlo Park (New Jersey), on November 4, 1879 the light bulb, which was the first practical electric incandescent lamp. Thanks to the light bulb, nightlife exists, as without it hardly anyone would be out on the street after sunset. -
The Berlin Conference was held between November 15, 1884 and February 26, 1885 in Berlin. It was convened by France and the United Kingdom and organized by Chancellor Bismarck. It helped to solve the problems of the colonial expansion in Africa and to distribute it. -
In 1885, Karl Benz, a German mechanical engineer, designed and built the world's first practical car to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. He patented it in England. Benz was the first inventor to integrate an internal combustion engine with a chassis. -
Guglielmo Marconi formed a wireless telegraph company and he passed on transmissions from a distance of more than 10 miles. In 1899, he successfully delivered a transmission across the English Channel. It was very important because this was the first message ent at such a distance, in a time when many people thought this wasn't posible due to the Earth's curvature. -
Wilbur and Orville Wright made, on December 17, 1903, four brief flights at Kitty Hawk (North Caroline) with their first powered aircraft, thus creating the first successful airplane. This invention was first used for military purposes during World War I, but in very limited ways. After this war, there were many advances in this invention that made flights much safer. They became very important as they began to be used for military, commercial, and passenger transportation purposes. -
Roald Amundsen and his team of Norwegian explorers became the first people to reach and to stand at the South Pole on December 14, 1911. This event was very important because of the geological collections made by the expedition led by him, which showed that the land is formed of many rocks of continental type, and also because of the numerous magnetic observations.