The world remade by machines

Industrial

1800 CE – 1900 CE · 174 moments

Steam, steel, and the smoke of new cities. Machines remake labour, distance, and daily life within a single lifetime.

IndustrialNapoleon Crosses Great St Bernard Pass1800 CE

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Napoleon Crosses Great St Bernard Pass1800 CE Napoleon Enters Burning Moscow1812 CE Lincoln’s Mother Dies of Milk Sickness1818 CE Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction1831 CE Frankfurt Parliament Opens1848 CE Florence Nightingale at Scutari1854 CE Clara Barton Tends the Wounded at Antietam1862 CE Battle of Skalitz28 June 1866 Bell First Telephone Call1876 CE Krakatoa Eruption Aftermath1883 CE Opening of the Eiffel Tower1889 Tesla's New York Lab Burns1895 CE