The main reason why so many of the machines that sped up production and travel were invented during the 18th and 19th centuries is because this was the time of the Industrial Revolution, which saw a great increase in factory production, which helped create the machines in question.
The fictional book Journey to the West describes the travels of a Chinese monk who brought Buddhism to China from India. ... The story tells a mythical version of the adventures of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang (602-664) on a journey to India to get some religious texts
The election of Abraham Lincoln into presidency