The Hudson River School focused on capturing the natural grandeur of American landscapes.
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Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel invent the internal combustion engine.
The reactor was a model for all nuclear plants built after the Second World War.
Hans-Peter Dürr receives this prize for his advocating of sustainable energy solutions.
Ostwald is seen as one of the founders of physical chemistry.
The state of Western Australian makes its first serious attempt to protect its indigenous flora.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, massive floods regularly threatened cities and settlements along the Danube River. The introduction of wide-reaching telegraph networks enabled Habsburg authorities in Vienna to protect the most important city of the empire.
On 25 January 1421, the newly elected mayor of Coventry, England issued a proclamation that gives us insights into medieval urban sanitation concerns and their regulation in the later medieval period.
After the collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy Austria was disconnected from its coal resources. Electricity production was focused on hydropower. The Möll is an example for the turn from local energy production to supranational electricity provision.
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.