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John Deere was an Illinois blacksmith and manufacturer. Early in his career, Deere and an associate designed a series of farm plows. In 1837, on his own, John Deere designed the first cast steel plow that greatly assisted the Great Plains farmers. The large plows made for cutting the tough prairie ground were called "grasshopper plows." The plow was made of wrought iron and had a steel share that could cut through sticky soil without clogging. By 1855, John Deere's factory was selling over 10,000 steel plows a year.
John Deere was an Illinois blacksmith and manufacturer. Early in his career, Deere and an associate designed a series of farm plows. In 1837, on his own, John Deere designed the first cast steel plow that greatly assisted the Great Plains farmers. The large plows made for cutting the tough prairie ground were called "grasshopper plows." The plow was made of wrought iron and had a steel share that could cut through sticky soil without clogging. By 1855, John Deere's factory was selling over 10,000 steel plows a year.
Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765 and died on January 8, 1825. He graduated from Yale College in 1792. By April 1793, Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.
This was the age of new technologies and new thinking.The Age of Reason was an eighteenth-century movement which followed hard after the mysticism, religion, and superstition of the Middle Ages. The Age of Reason represented a genesis in the way man viewed himself, the pursuit of knowledge, and the universe.
Was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years.
He is know for being the "Beloved". He was crowned on June 11, 1775. On May 16, 1770 he married Marie Antoinette, daughter of Francis I of Austria and Empress Maria Theresa , a Habsburg.
In 1748 Benjamin Franklin first coined the term "battery" to describe an array of charged glass plates. Then in 1839 to 1842 inventors created improvements to batteries that used liquid electrodes to produce electricity. Bunsen (1842) and Grove (1839) invented the most successful.
He was known as the "Well Beloved". King Louis XV of France (1710–1774) is shown wearing the royal robes
Thomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine, based on Denis Papin's Digester or pressure cooker of 1679. Thomas Savery had been working on solving the problem of pumping water out of coal mines, his machine consisted of a closed vessel filled with water into which steam under pressure was introduced. This forced the water upwards and out of the mine shaft. Then a cold water sprinkler was used to condense the steam. This created a vacuum which sucked more water out of the mine shaft through a bottom valve.
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange) who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William III of England together with his wife Mary II of England.
while the third war saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The Civil War ended with the Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.The Civil War led to the trial and execution of Charles I, the exile of his son, Charles II, and replacement of English monarchy.
The Second Civil War was fought between May and August 1648. While the Second Civil War witnessed no battles like Naseby, it witnessed a series of battles that led to the defeat of Charles I and his trial and execution.
A period of time when an abosolute monarchy was the thing to have. And it if you had it you were consdierd to be a good place.
Louis XIV gave himself a nickname of "Sun King". When Louis XIV, at the age of 23, became his own chief minister and ruled personally until his death in 1715.
The First English Civil War began the series of three wars known as the English Civil War (or "Wars"). "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651.
The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe. A major impact of the Thirty Years' War was the extensive destruction of entire regions, denuded by the foraging armies.
The telescope was introduced to astronomy in 1609 by the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, who became the first man to see the craters of the moon, and who went on to discover sunspots, the four large moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn.
The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state.
Gravity is a force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun. Sir Issac Newton was a great scientist who had many theories.
A council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers; redefined the Roman Catholic doctrine and abolished various ecclesiastical abuses and strengthened the papacy.
Nicolaus Copericus came up with this theroy. His theory was the the sun is the center of the solar system not the earth. And Jhannes Kepler and Galieo Galilei supported this theory.
The Luther Bible is a German Bible translation by Martin Luther, first printed with both testaments in 1534. This translation is considered to be largely responsible for the evolution of the modern German language. The task for Luther to translate the Bible from Latin took him the rest of his breathing life.
This was a list of issues that Martin Luther a German Monk had the the Roman Catholic Church. And this list of theses basically challenged the church.
Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci he painted her faithfully because of her true beauty was like a beast. He moved to France to finsh the painting but shorly after he died.
Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor of the first actually printing press and he named it "The Gutenberg." The Gutenberg press with its wooden and later metal movable type printing brought down the price of printed materials and made such materials available for the masses. It remained the standard until the 20th century.
The peak of the Renaissance Era stated around the end of the 14th going into the 15th century. The Renaissance first began in Tuscany, Italy. The Rinaissance ended around 1600's.
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