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| 1860s: An undersea cable relayed messages between North America and Europe. 1868: Although it lacked many basic resources, Japan soon industrialized rapidly. 1869: Germany legalized labor unions. 1870s: A new artistic movement emerged, impressionism. It took root in Paris, the capital of the western art world. 1870: Rail lines crisscrossed across Britain, Europe, and the eastern part of North America. 1870: Louis Pasteur showed the link between germs and diseases. 1870: John D. Rockefeller built the Standard Oil Company of Ohio into an empire. 1871: Germany united into a powerful nation. This helped push it to become one of Europe's leading industrial power. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born American inventor, developed the telephone. 1878: The Salvation Army is set up in London by William and Catherine Booth. 1879: Thomas Edison invented the first electric light bulb. 1882: German doctor, Robert Koch, idtentified the backteria that caused tuberculosis. This disease claimed about 30 million lives during the 1800s. 1885: Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine for rabies. 1887: Gottlieb Daimler used Nikolaus Otto's gasoline-powered internal combustion engine to power the first automobile 1890s: Cables carried electical power from dynamos to factories. 1896: Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio. 1896: Henry Ford created his own self-propelled Quadricycle. |
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