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Energy with water
In around 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines. -
The population
Between 1750 and 1830, the population had grow a lot. -
Arnold Toynbee
The historian Arnold Toynbee also created the idea that, in the years between 1780 and 1830, there was an Industrial Revolution. -
Davy Lamp
Better coal mining techniques allowed deeper mines eg 'roof and pillar' working to support the roof, upcast and downcast shafts to provide ventilation, and the Davy Lamp (1815) to help prevent gas explosions. -
Education for poor children
the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children -
Canal Network
the canal network covered 4,000 miles -
The typewriter.
Christopher Scholes invented the typewriter. -
Railway
423 million passengers travelled on 16,000 miles of line -
The first historians of the Inustrial Revolution
Toynbee , and the first historians of the Industrial Revolution thought that the industrial growth had been stimulated by Britain's trade. -
Motor Car
Karl Benz invented the motor car -
The sign of four
Miss Morstan visits Sherlock Holmes and shows him the pearls and a letter. -
The Sign of Four
They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure. -
The Sign of Four
They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondicherry Lodge. -
The Sign of Four
They arrive at Pondicherry Lodge and find Bartholomew Sholto dead. -
The Sign of four
Holmes and Watson find footprints and marks in the room made by someone with a wooden leg -
The Sign of Four
Sherlock Holmes uses his magnifying glass to examine the secret room. -
The Sign of Four
Inspector Lestrade arrests Thaddeus Sholto for the murder of his brother. -
The Sign of Four
Watson goes to Lambeth and borrows a dog called Toby. -
The Sign of Four
Toby follows the smell of the tar and leads Holmes and Watson to a house next to the river. -
The Sign of Four
Holmes tries to find Mordecai Smith and the Aurora. -
The Sign of Four
Inspector Lestrade, Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora in a police boat. they kill the native and catch the man with the wooden leg. -
The Sign of Four
Jonathan Small tells the story of the Agra Treasure and the Sign of Four. -
Developed psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis. -
Universities
Between 1900 and 1909, 'red-brick' universities were founded in Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Bristol, concentrating on science or engineering courses.
