Los coleccionables del Museo Zumalakarregi

Electricity, the new energy. 1879 Edison developed the incandescent lamp, using carbonised wire for filament.

A Danish clergyman invented the radial principle 1870 used in typewriters, i.e. the use of levers. His machines, made from steel and iron, had 52 keys, each of which printed a different type of letter when pressed.

The wounds left by the First Carlist War did not heal and in 1872 the Second Carlist War broke out.

The story of the adventures of Capitan Nemo 1870 on board his submarine the Nautilus was published in one of the most famous of Jules Verne’s novels. Two years later, in 1872, the writer published another of his best-loved works, which described Phileas Fogg’s journey around the world. This story became immensely popular and has been adapted to the cinema many times.
In 1875 Mark Twain evoked frontier life in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The novel had both an enormous power of satire and a sense of realism totally unlike anything that had gone before.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone 1876 capable of transmitting a clear, continuous message. The invention had a profound effect on world communications.