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1 day ago · The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution [1]) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.
2 days ago · The term was adopted by literary and cultural critics as well as historians, including Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford, Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Matthew Josephson. For them, Gilded Age was a pejorative term for a time of materialistic excesses and widespread political corruption. [8]
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2 days ago · 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered " vacuum cleaner ", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney .
5 days ago · Charles Babbage was an English mathematician and inventor: he invented the cowcatcher, reformed the British postal system, and was a pioneer in the fields of operations research and actuarial science. It was Babbage who first suggested that the weather of years past could be read from tree rings.
2 days ago · For the 32-year-old inventor, the Quadricycle's successful first outing was the result of the inventiveness, determination and hard work that later earned him the title of "genius of the automotive industry." Three giants - steel, oil and railways - set the stage for Henry Ford and the beginnings of motor transportation.
3 days ago · More and more women shopped for commercially prepared food and did less baking and canning. Many of today's best known brand names — Campbell's soup, Nabisco crackers, and Coca‐Cola — were introduced in the 1890s.
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2 days ago · Before the invention of photography, a variety of optical toys exploited this effect by mounting successive phase drawings of things in motion on the face of a twirling disk (the phenakistoscope, c. 1832) or inside a rotating drum (the zoetrope, c. 1834).
