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Signature. Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [ O.S. January 6, 1705] [Note 1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. [1] Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers ...
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The British credit crisis of 1772–1773, also known as the crisis of 1772, or the panic of 1772, was a peacetime financial crisis which originated in London and then spread to Scotland and the Dutch Republic. [1] It has been described as the first modern banking crisis faced by the Bank of England. [2] New colonies, as Adam Smith observed, had ...
First practical means of collecting energy from the Sun and turning it into a current of electricity. 1955: The hovercraft is patented by Christopher Cockerell. 1955: The intermodal container is developed by Malcom McLean. 1957: The laser and optical amplifier are invented and named by Gordon Gould and Charles Townes.
26 December – Carron Company produces its first cast iron at Falkirk. George Ross acquires Cromarty and begins the process of developing it as a planned town. Edinburgh City Chambers is opened as the Royal Exchange, to a design by John Adam. Construction of a new Glasgow town hall is completed.
The first ever cast iron rails are laid at Coalbrookdale. [2] [3] [4] Kambarka Engineering Works, now recognised for its rolling stock and locomotives, opens in current-day Urmdurt, Russia. Plans are drawn up for the construction of a canal between Witton Park and Stockton-on-Tees which instead becomes the route of the Stockton and Darlington ...
Hammurabi, king of Babylon from around 1792 to 1750 BC [1] Rim-Sin I, king of Larsa from 1822 to 1763 BC, according to the middle chronology. Yarim-Lim I, king of the Amorite kingdom of Yamhad in present-day Syria, from around 1780 to 1764 BC. Zimri-Lim, king of the Middle Eastern city-state of Mari from around 1775 to 1761 BC.
