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Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines.
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Arthur Young wrote about the new methods.
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Between 1750 and 1830, Robert Bakewell used selective breeding to develop the New Leicester sheep.
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The first railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
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The Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children.
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Christopher Scholes invented the typewriter.
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Karl Benz invented the motor car.
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John Pemberton invented Coca Cola.
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Miss Morstan visits Sherlock Holmes and shows him the pearls and a letter.
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They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure.
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They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondicherry Lodge.
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They arrive at Pondicherry Lodge and find Bartholomew Sholto dead.
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Holmes and Watson find footprints and marks in the room made by someone with a wooden leg.
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Sherlock Holmes uses his magnifying glass to examine the secret room.
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Inspector Letrade arrests Taddeus Sholto for the murder of his brother.
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Watson goes to Lambeth and borrows a dog called Toby.
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Toby follows the smell of the tar and leads Holmes and Watson to a house next to the river.
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Holmes tries to find Mordecai Smith and the Aurora.
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Inspector Lestrade,Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora in a police boat.They kill the native and catch the man with the wooden leg.
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Jonathan Small tells the story of the Agra Treasure and the Sign of Four .
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Education Act established a system of secondary schools.
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In 1914, the coal industry employed a million men in 3,000 collieries.
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Musson and Robinson credited science and technology.
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Recently, the African historian Joseph Inikori has focused on the profits made by the slave traders, which provided money for investment in British industry.
