Tag: voyages and discoveries

Agriculture is essential to fulfill the need for food. Therefore, a vast system needs to be created which includes factories to manufacture tools and equipment used for farming, banks to provide loans to farmers, a market for the goods produced, etc. The existence of many systems makes  a stable society.

Sir Henry Bessemer was a prominent British engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He developed the first cost-efficient process for the manufacture of steel in 1856.

The first commercially successful steam locomotive named as  "Locomotion No. 1" was created by George Stephenson. It was used to carry passengers on a first public rail line in Britain, between the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825 .

The first ever prototype of Davy’s miner’s safety lamp. Created in 1815, it was designed to be lit safely for miners to use without allowing the heat from the flame to explode the concentration of methane gas often found as miners dug deeper.

Henry Cort was an English ironmaster. In 1784 Cort introduced the pudding process for the purification of iron, where molten pig iron was stirred in a reverberatory furnace.

This study was carried out to determine the influence of using charcoal as a supplementary fuel on the microstructure and reduction properties of sinter. 

 Constantinople was capital of the Eastern Roman Empire which was conquered by the Ottoman Army, under the command Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II on 29th May 1453.