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)
History of the automatic fire alarm and smoke detection. The first automatic electric fire alarm was invented in 1890 by Francis Robbins Upton. Upton was an associate of Thomas Edison. In the late 1930s, Swiss physicist Walter Jaeger tried to invent a sensor for poison gas.