The Time Machine
Summit of Mankind
Triumph of Knowledge
Inventions:
Marine Torpedo (1804)
Revolver Pistol (1836)
Machine Gun (1861),
Submarine (1891
Experimental Steamboat (1803)
Locomotive (1812)
Airship (1852),
Modern Bicycle (1885)
Motorcycle (1885)
Electric Automobile (1892),
Gasoline Automobile (1892)
Experimental Airplane (1896).
Volta's Electric battery (1800)
Magnetic Telegraph (1837)
Arc Light (1847)
Encyclopedia (c1820)
Rechargeable Storage Battery (1859)
Microphone (1877)
Incandescent Lamp (1879),
Metronome (1816)
Lawnmower (1831),
Sewing Machine (1846)
Safety Pin (1849)
Gas Burner (1855),
Mason Jar (1858)
Linoleum (1860)
Carpet Sweeper (1876)
Telephone (1876)
Phonograph (1877)
Electric Fan (1882),
Kodak Camera (1888),
Wax Cylinder Record (1888)
Safety Razor (1895)
Electric Stove (1896)...
Band Saw (1808)
Paper Machine (1809)
Rotary Printing Press (1845)
Elevator Brake (1852)
Typewriter (1867)
Stock Ticker (1870)
Cash Register (1879),
Fountain Pen (1884)
Adding Machine (1885),
Punchcard Accounting (1889)
Ice-making Machine (1851)
Harvester-thresher (1818)
Reaper (1834),
Refrigerator Car (1868)
Barbed Wire (1874)
Motion Pictures (c1890)
The big names of 1870-1890:
Charles Darwin
Queen Victoria
Karl Marx
Alexander II (killed) & III (Russia)
Otto von Bismark (Germany)
Ulysses S Grant (US President)
Benjamin Harrison (US President)
James Garfield (assassinated)
Jules Verne (France, 1828- 905) – first “sci-fi writer”
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869)
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1896)
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (1818)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
1801: Johann Elert Bode’s atlas of 17,240 stars and nebulae: Uranographia
1801: First asteroid discovered, "Ceres,” between Mars and Jupiter
1802: U.S. Congress establishes The United States Military Academy –
West Point
1802: Harvard College first requires knowledge of arithmetic for admission
1802: DuPont founded for the manufacture of gunpowder
1803 Louisiana Purchase (Lewis & Clark) under President Thomas Jefferson
1805: The Last Man, by Jean-Baptiste Xavier de Grainville
1809: Ephraim McDowell carries out the first ovariotomy.
1812: Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
1818: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:
or The Modern Prometheus
1818: Endymio," by John Keats (A thing of beauty is a joy forever..)
1820: Hector Berlioz’ "Symphony Fantastique."
1822: Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater
1827: A Voyage to the Moon, by Joseph Atterley
1827: The Mummy!" by Jane Loudon
1831: Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1832: William Gilmore Simms’ Atlantis
1832: The Brothers Grimm “folklore”
1835: Hans Christian Anderson first anthology
1837: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
1839: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
1840s: the Horror genre is captured in the "Penny Bloods" or "Penny Dreadfuls,” Thomas Prest ("Sweeny Todd"), James Malcolm Rymer, and George Reynolds
1842: Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Masque of the Red Death"
1844: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Rappaccini's Daughter"
1847: Jesse James Born
1849: The Safety Pin
1859: The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
1864: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
1864: A Voyage to the Moon, by Chrysostum Trueman
1865: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865: From the Earth to the Moon, by Jules Verne
1867: The Typewriter
1868: Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone
1870: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
1876: The Telephone
1877: The Phonograph
1878: HMS Pinafore
1883: Brooklyn Bridge Opens
1885: The Mikado
1886: Robert Louis
Stephenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde
1888: Jack the Ripper
1888: Kodak Camera
1889: Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1890: Vincent Van Gogh dies
1891: Yellowstone National Park established
1895: H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
1896: H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau
1896: H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man
1897: Abraham "Bram" Stoker's Dracula, or the Undead
1898: H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds
1898: Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw