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The Making Of The Modern World
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Benjiman Franklin Kite
Benjiman Franklin on 1752 did a experiment to fly a kite out into a storm and to see if there was any reaction. There was that nihgt and he discoverd and proved that lightning was static electricity. The Kite -
The Industrial Revoulution
The Industrial revoultion started in the 1700's.It was when giant changes in machiney, argiculture, mining and transport happend. It was the start of a major turning point in human history. The Industrial Revolution -
The First Fleet
The first Fleet was the arrival of british settlement in Australia. They left Portsmouth in 1787 with 11 boats that were carrying 1480 man, woman and children.They arrived in Australia on the 26th of January 1788 in Botany Bay. The First Fleet First Fleet Online -
The steam engine
Samuel Homfray in 1803 decided to fund on a invention, a steam powerd vechile which would replace horses with horse drawn carts. Between 1771-1833 a man called Richard Trevithick created the steam engine tramway locomotive which on the 22nd of Feb 1804 hauled 10 tons of iron, 70 men and five extra wagons 9 miles between the ironworks at Pen-y-Darron in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to the bottom of a valley called Abercynnon (2h)<a href='http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrai -
Abraham Lincoln
16th president Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the united states on the 4th of March 1861. He led th USA into civil war( a very bloody war) and in doing do he also preserved the union, abolished slavery, strengthened the national government and modernized the economy. Until his assasination on April the 15, 1865. -
Vaccanations
Louis Pasteur creates vaccanations for diseases in 1870 January. This becomes big for today for stopping diseases such as the first disease the team worked onwhich was chicken cholera to stop farmers getting sick. [Louis Pasteur](<a href='http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/louis_pasteur.htm)' > -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell patents the idea for the telephone on March 1876, letting people talk to each other from a big distance. Bells Telephone -
The First Lightbulb
The First practical electric light bulb was created by Thomas Edison, he had a succesful trial on October 22nd 1879 consisting an evacuated glass bulb conatining a filament made from a carbonized cotton thread. he's lights were used by man ships around the world. The Light Bulb Thomas Edison -
First aeroplane
The first aeroplane was built on December 17th, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It was created by the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright. History of the aeroplane -
First Model T automobile
The first model car was produced in Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit on October 1, 1908. The creator of the car was a man called Henry Ford ( teh creator of Ford) who said "You can paint it any color...," . [' >First Model T automobile](<a href='http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/showroom/1908/model.t.html) -
The Titanic
The RMS Titanic embarked on the 10th of April 1912.It sailed from Southampton, England, to New York City. It was said to be unsinkable until on the 14th of April when it hit a iceberg and it sank killing 1,500 people Titanic -
World War 1 ends
The First World War started in 1914 28th of July and went on till 1918 and was the most blodiest war between our country's. The total number of deaths were 10 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians. WW1
