Rev ind

Great Britain in Sherlock Holmes times

  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Inventions and innovations

    Inventions and innovations
    James Watt made steam engines much more efficient in the 1760s and 1770s giving huge savings on fuel
  • Agriculture

    Agriculture
    Workers left the land and went to the industrial towns of the north of England.
  • Agriculture

    Agriculture
  • Transport and communications

    Transport and communications
    Between 1803 and 1821, Thomas Telford alone built 1000 miles of road, including 1000 bridges
  • Inventions and innovations

    Inventions and innovations
    Production of coal increased 20-fold in the century 1815‒1914.
  • Education

    Education
    The government passed the Factory Act making two hours of education
  • Science and learning

    Science and learning
    Henry Talbot invented photography.
  • Transport and communications

    Transport and communications
    1837 Samuel Morse invented the telegraph
  • Education

    Education
    The Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children.
  • Consequences of transport and communications

    Consequences of transport and communications
    In 1847, more than a quarter of a million people worked on the railways.
  • Science and Learning

    Science and Learning
    Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
  • The Sing Of Four

    The Sing Of Four
    they arrivedat pondicherry lodge and find bartholomeu Sholto
  • Consecuences of transport and communications

    Consecuences of transport and communications
    In 1883 the Cheap Trains Act made railway companies offer a greater number of cheap trains for workers. Transport became available to more people than ever before.
  • Science and Learning

    Science and Learning
    John Pemberton invented Coca Cola.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    inspector Lestrade arrests Thaddeuss Sholto for the murder of his brother
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Miss Morstan visits Sherlock Holmes and shows him the and letter.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Watson goes to lambeth borrows a dog called toby
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Sherlock Holmses uses his magnyifying glass to examine the secret room
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Holms and Watson find foot prints and marks in the room made by someone with a wooden leag
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondicherry Lodge.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Holmes try to find Mordecay Smith and the Aurora
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Inspector Lestrade,Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora in a police boat.They kill the native and catched the man with the wooden leag
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four
    Jonathan Small tells the history of Agra tresure and The Sign of Four