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John Kay's flying shuttle
John Kay invented the flying shuttle which allowed weavers to weave faster. Larger looms required two people to throw the shuttle. The flying shuttle allowed only one weaver to be needed. -
James Brindley's Bridgewater Canal opens
James Brindley was given the task of building canals by the Duke of Bridgewater. The Duke needed these to transport coal long distances that could not be carried by land. Barges carried coal from Worsley to Manchester. -
Watt's first efficient steam engine
Watt created the first efficient steam engine by taking an earlier version and studying it. He then recreated it with new ideas making it more efficient. It changed how boats worked and plenty of other machines to come. -
Gold Rush
Government Surveyor James McBrien discovered traces of gold in the Fish River, east of Bathurst which started off the Australian Gold Rush. The Gold Rush brought a big wave of immigrants to Australia. A good portion of the immigrants were from China. The Gold Rush eventually lead to the Eureka Stockade. -
Morse develops the telegraph and Morse Code
Samuel Morse created the telegraph and morse code. In 1844 Morse demonstrated to Congress the practicality of the telegraph by transmitting the famous message “What hath God wrought” over a wire from Washington to Baltimor. Morse code is used on ship to send messages such as SOS. -
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly was born on 1855. He was infamous outlaw in Australia. He was famous for his trademark armour that he and crew wore. His famous last words were ‘Such is Life’. -
American Civil War
The civil war lasted 4 years from 1861-65. It was a bloody battle between Union and the Confederate States of America. It resulted in the deaths of over 620,000 with millions of others injured. -
Bell invents the telephone
In the 1870s two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. Both of them designed devices that could transmit speech electronically (the telephone). Both men submitted their designs hours within each other. Bell put his design in first. They went into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which bell won. -
Marconi patents wireless telegraph
Guglielmo Marconi sent the first wireless message over 100 years ago. In the early summer of 1895 Marconi managed to transmit a signal over 2 km even with a hill in the way. The name of his company changed many times but ended up staying with the name Marconi plc. -
First Zeppelin built
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin started construction of the first airship LZ-1, in June in 1898 and was completed in the winter of 1899. The ship was filled with hydrogen and made its first flight on July 2, 1900. The flight lasted about 18 minutes and covered about 3 ½ miles (5.632704 km). -
Aspirin invented
Aspirin is used to fix headaches and problems like that. The drug works by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins, body chemicals that are necessary for blood clotting and which also sensitize nerve endings to pain. It was refined by numerous of scientists and chemists all over the world. -
Wright brothers make first powered flight
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew a plane called the flyer for 12 seconds over 120 feet of ground. The flight was done at Kill Devil Hill just outside of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The was the first flight of an airplane.