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Without the Agricultural Revolution, the growing population of England would have starved, and the Industrial Revolution would have been stifled.
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'Turnip' Townshend introduced the turnip and the Norfolk four-course rotation of wheat‒turnips‒barley‒clover onto his farm.
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Robert Bakewell used selective breeding to develop the New Leicester sheep.
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Henry Talbot invented photography
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented a bicycle
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In 1844, the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children
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Huge ironworks eg Richard Crawshay's Cyfartha works in South Wales, and John Roebuck's Carron Works in Scotland.
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Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
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Forster's Act set up state-funded board schools for primary education.
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Abraham Darby smelted iron using coke [coke: A coal-based solid fuel.] (1709), Henry Cort's puddling process made wrought iron (1784), and Henry Bessemer's Bessemer converter (1856) and the Gilchrist-Thomas process (1879) made steel.
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The Education Act made school attendance compulsory for children up to the age of 10.
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Karl Benz invented the motor car
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John Pemberton invented Coca Cola
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They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure.
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Inspector Lestrade arrests Thaddeus Sholto for the murder of his brother.
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Miss Morstan visits Sherlock Holmes and shows him the pearls and a letter.
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They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondicherry Lodge.
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They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure.
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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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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
