The American Revolution was the first wave of the Atlantic Revolutions: the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Latin American wars of independence. Aftershocks reached Ireland in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, in the PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth, and in the Netherlands.
A reconstruction of Homo erectus, the earliest human species that is known to have controlled fire (reconstruction shown in WestfÃ¤lisches Landesmuseum, Herne, Germany, in a 2006 exhibition)
Parmelee, owner of a piano factory in New Haven, Connecticut, invented the first practical automatic fire. sprinkler in 1874. For nearly 100-years ânewâ fire-fighting technology was focused on the industrial and. commercial sector of this nationâs fire problem.