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Four Field Crop Rotation
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Mechanised Handloom
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Start of the Industrail Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times. -
Spinning Jenny
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Water Frame
In 1769, a man named Richard Arkwright invented the water frame. The water frame used water from rapid streams to drive the flying shuttles and the spinning jennys, thus reducing the work that workers had to perform. -
Captain James Cook discovers southeast coast.
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Steam Engine
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Australia was Settled
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The Battery
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Hobart Settled
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first Photopraph
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture. -
Port Athur
Port Arthur closed this year officially. No more convicts were transported there for their punishment. Almost immediately the site was renamed Carnarvon. Years later it was opened as a tourist attraction, and is officially a historic site, to show the public the horrors of which the convicts had to bear with. It opened as a tourist attraction in the 1880's. -
Type Writer
American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Alows papers and books to be written more efficiently. -
Bicycle
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle. -
Gold Rush
Gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a nation. -
The Eureka Stockade
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Telephone
Alex Bell invented the Telephone -
Diesel Engine
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Australia Flaq
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World War 1
World War 1 was centred in Europe, that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. Britain and Germany started the war.
