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The first Steam Engine
A steam engine is a machine that converts the heat energy of steam into mechanical energy. A steam engine passes its steam into a cylinder, where it then pushes a piston back and forth. It is with this piston movement that the engine can do mechanical work. The steam engine was the major power source of the Industrial revolution in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It dominated industry and transportation for 150 years. -
The First Fleet lands in Botany
the effect on the Aboriginal people were dramatic because of the infections that the sailors and convicts brought with them more then 90% of the indigenous people died in the first 3 months -
The French Revolution
the guillotine as a way of terrifying the people into submission and as a way of threatening the people to do as the soldiers command. -
Alessandro Volta invents the first battery
Alessandero has had a type of energy called the Volt named after him now it is a well known word -
textile workers smashed machinery in factories and mills in the Aldlams
Luddites were a group of people that were electrically literate and were uncooperative with the introduction of machinery into the work places -
the first passenger rail
Mr Stephenson designed the first passenger rail as a way of transporting large amounts of people while still being efficient enough to maximize income. -
slavery abolished
n 1861, Robert Smalls, a slave took over on a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He later was given the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war he bought the house he was a slave in, and became a US congressman.
2. William Whipple freed his slaves when he signed the Declaration of Independence, because he believed that he could not fight for freedom and own slaves. -
the discovery of gold in Australia
There are 92 naturally occurring elements found in the earth's crust. Gold ranks
58th in rarity.
1. The chemical symbol for gold is Au, which is derived from the Latin word
"aurum," which means "shining dawn."
2. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
3. The melting point of gold is 2,063 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. Gold is a great conductor of electricity.
5. Gold is the most malleable and ductile pure metal known to man. -
Karl Benz invented the first automobile
1.The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-
cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve 1879.
Benz had so much commercial success with this engine that he was able to
devote more time to his dream of creating a lightweight car powered by a
gasoline engine, in which the chassis and engine formed a single unit. -
the sinking of the titanic
the titanic sinks into the northern Atlantic ocean after striking an ice burg.