1884	Scramble for Africa
1897	The construction of the Eiffel Tower begins
1859	On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
1872	Claude Monet, impressionism is born
1865	End of the american civil war
1863	Creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross
1879	Thomas Edison invents the first commercial light bulb
1867	Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital

«Design is no longer seen as a unity but as a sum of parts. We concentrate more on the elements that determine an object than on the object itself....»
Ettore Sottsass