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5 days ago · 19th century 1800s. 1800: Alessandro Volta invents the voltaic pile, an early form of battery in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani. 1802: Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until the invention of efficient electric generators).
- Fritz Strassmann
Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (German: [fʁɪt͡s ˈʃtʁasˌman] ⓘ;...
- Timeline of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The following timeline tables list the discoveries and...
- Timeline of Computing
Timeline of computing presents events in the history of...
- Timeline of London (19th century)
The following is a timeline of the history of London in the...
- History of Europe
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four...
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5 days ago · What did Modernism do? Where is Modernism today? Modernism, in the fine arts, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.
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1 day ago · Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance marks the first multidisciplinary exhibition in Italy to examine the profound impact of Italian Renaissance art on the Pre-Raphaelite movement, which flourished in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (c. 1840-1920). Displayed throughout the hallowed halls of the San Domenico Museum, a restored 13th-century ...
1 day ago · The Hudson River School represents a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The following artists are among the most celebrated figures of this movement. Mountain House (nd) by Albert Bierstadt; Albert Bierstadt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
4 days ago · Influential writers of the early 19th century included Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe and American literature came to its full maturity in the works of the New England writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, the poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and the humorist Mark Twain.
