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In 1858 Cyrus W.Field laid a new transatlantic telegraph cable whch shrank the world further; suddenly, messages could be sent between Europe and North America in minutes rather than days. -
On the Origin of Species is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology it states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. -
On September 14, 1867 German philosopher Karl Marx published the first volume of The Capital, he described his purpose as to lay bare “the economic law of motion of modern society. -
The Suez Canal was built in Egypt under the supervision of French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps. The waterway opened in 1869 after ten years of construction ,a crisis began on 1956, when Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe. -
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized communication inventing the telephone. Thomas A. Watson, one of Bell's assistants, was trying to reactivate a telegraph transmitter. Hearing the sound, Bell believed that he could solve the problem of sending a human voice over a wire. -
By January 1879, at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. -
Berlin West Africa Conference, a series of negotiations at Berlin, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin in Central Africa. -
In 1885, German mechanical engineer, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. By the 1890s, motor cars reached their modern stage of development. -
Receiving a little encouragement for his experiments in Italy, Marconi left for England in 1896. He formed a wireless telegraph company and managed to transmit transmissions from a distance of more than 10 miles.In 1899, he successfully delivered a transmission across the English Channel. -
The Wright brothers inaugurated the aerial age with the world's first successful flights of a powered heavier-than-air flying machine. The Wright Flyer was the product of a sophisticated four-year program of research and development conducted by both, the Wrights' first powered airplane flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17,1903. -
In 1911, Britain’s Robert Falcon Scott and Norway’s Roald Amundsen both launched expeditions to reach the Pole. It would end in victory for Amundsen and tragedy for Scott.