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The Agricultural Revolution
Without the Agricultural Revolution, the growing population of England would have starved, and the Industrial Revolution would have been stifled. -
Coke
Braham Darby smelted iron using coke (1709) -
Pump Water
Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines. -
Industrialisation.
There was significant industrialisation in Britain before 1780. -
The rate of economic growth
The rate of economic growth between 1780 and 1830 was much slower than previously thought. -
Farm-workers
It used to be thought that enclosure displaced farm-workers to the towns, but historians now doubt this. -
The Parliamentary Enclosure movement
The Parliamentary Enclosure movement was said to have destroyed the old three-field system, and created the modern 'patchwork' of enclosed fields. -
The New Leicester Sheep
Beetwen 1750 and 1830, Robert Bakewell used selective breeding to develop the New Leicester sheep. -
Sheep shearings
Beetwen 1750 and 1830, coke of Holkham publicised the new ideas by inviting hundreds of people to his 'sheep shearings' ie agricultural shows -
Machinery Meant
In the long term, however, increased use of machinery meant that fewer farm workers were needed. They left the land and went to the industrial towns of the north of England. -
Telegraph
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. -
Steamship
Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Great Britain steamship (using screw propellers) -
Economy Grew
Some sectors of the economy grew, eg textiles, iron, coal, but the rest stayed stagnant, or grew very slowly. -
The Machine Gun
Richard Gatling patented the machine gun. -
Dynamite
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. -
Forster's act
Forster's Act set up state-funded board schools for primary education. -
The Sign Of Four Miss Mary Morstan
Captain Morstan disappeared
Captain Morstan returned from India to England
Captain Morstan sent a telegram to his daughter
Major Sholto dead
Mary Morstan( the daughter of Captain Mortan) received a box with a pearl. -
The Sign of Four a Strange Paper
Miss Mary Morstan went to the Lyceum theater with Holmes and Watson and there was a man waiting for they in a cab.
Mary gives a map to Holmes that she found in his father desk ( it said THE SIGN OF FOUR ). -
The Sing of Four Mr Thaddeus Sholto
Holmes, Watson and Mary got into the house and met Thaddeus Sholto and tells they that Captain Morstan was dead.
He tells they that before Sholto's dead ,he told his secret about the treasure.
Thaddeus and his brother had divided the treasure with Mary. -
School
The Education Act made school attendance compulsory for children up to the age of 10. -
The Sign of Four: Pondicherry Lodge
Bartholomew was found dead in his home, because a poison thorn, and the treasure was missing -
The Sign of Four: An early arrest
Holmes thought that two people were the murdered, one of the two was with a wooden leg: Jonathan Small, but the police thought that was Thaddeus Sholto. -
The Sign of Four: The Aurora
Holmes and Watson met Mordecai Smith and her hasband take the steam lunch with a person with a wooden leg -
The Sign of Four The Baker Street Boys
Watson called the baker street boys and told they to found a black launch called the aurora and said they that Mordecai Smith is the owner of the launch -
The Ragged Schools
In 1844, the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children -
Motor Car
Karl Benz invented the motor car. -
Coca Cola
John Pemberton invented Coca Cola. -
The Sign of Four The Old Sailor
The Baker Street boys had found nothing so Holmes, Watson and Lestrade board a police launch. -
The Sign of Four The Adventure on the River
The police launch followed the Aurora down the River, there were four people on the boat.
Lestrade said said to the launch stop and shoot a gun.
The police took a large indian chest from the Aurora. -
The Sign of Four
Jonathan small tolds his histori about the woooden leg and said that the treasure was for her and other four people trom the Andaman Islands. -
The Coal Industry
The coal industry employed a million men in 3,000 collieries. -
Population
A H John thought that growth had been stimulated by the Agricultural Revolution. This had increased the population and therefore domestic demand. -
Industry
Joseph Inikori (1987) has focused on the profits made by the slave traders, which provided money for investment in British industry. -
Investment in british Industry
the African historian Joseph Inikori (1987) has focused on the profits made by the slave traders, which provided money for investment in British industry.
