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för 4 dagar sedan · The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century to the early 21st century.
För 1 dag sedan · Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and sculpture, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
för 2 dagar sedan · 20th century 1900s. 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.
För 1 dag sedan · Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. (Read Einstein’s 1926 Britannica essay on space-time.) Childhood and education. Einstein’s parents were secular, middle-class Jews. His father, Hermann Einstein, was originally a featherbed salesman and later ran an electrochemical factory with ...
för 5 dagar sedan · There are at least three competing twentieth centuries, not just Robert's 1901-2000, the literal century; but also a 'short' twentieth century lasting from 1914 (or1917) to 1989 (or 1991) and a 'long' twentieth century beginning around 1870.
för 4 dagar sedan · 20th and 21st-Century US History Resources. Manuscripts, newspapers, diaries, maps, artwork, photographs, and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers up to the mid-20th century. Cross-searchable with The American West database. Includes manuscripts, ephemera, images, maps, and more.
för 2 dagar sedan · A century which includes two world wars, Stalinism and the holocaust, not to mention numerous other acts of genocide and oppression, deserves the extremist label. However, whether this remain an age of extremism is less clear, and represents the large question raised by Hobsbawm.
