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Lighting Rod
Benjamin Franklin wanted his experiment to be practical, so he developed the lightning rod. A tall rod is attached to the outside wall of the house and then put half underground so that it funils it into the ground away from the house. -
automating weaving machien
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny, automating weaving the warp (in the weaving of cloth). -
The invention of the rubber
This invention eventually lead to pencil erasers by Hymen Lipman but was the first actual rubbing device to erase pencil. -
The first fleet
11 ships full of convicts are sent to Australia and land in Botany Bay, New South Wales lead by Arthur Phillip. The trip was planned by Captain James Cook who had landed in and named New South Wales in 1770. -
The poor law
The poor law ammendment act of 1834 saw the British government attempt to deal with the conditions of the revolution by supporting the poor people of the community. -
telagraph
The electric telegraph is a now outdated communication system that transmitted electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message. -
The first camera
The camera was originally invented by Louis Daguerre however Alex's camera was used in the first ever advertisment that had an actual 'real life' photograph in it. -
The first invention of the telaphone
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. -
Diesel Engine
In 1898, Rudolf Diesel was granted patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine. -
world war 1
world war 1 starts -
world war 1
The austrlian soliders land in galliply -
world war 1
The end of world war 1
