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)
The first person to experiment with an internal-combustion engine was the Dutch physicist Christian Huygens, about 1680.But no effective gasoline-powered engine was developed until 1859, when the French engineer J. J. Ãtienne Ã©tienne lenoir built a-double, acting-spark ignition engine that could be operated. continuouslyhe first person to experiment with an internal-combustion engine was the Dutch physicist Christian Huygens, about 1680.