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The Industrial Revolution Begins
The industrial Revolution begins and all the famous people and things are created. -
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The Industrial Revolution
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Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot built a vehicle with a steam engine.
Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot built a self-propelled vehicle with a steam engine. -
Georges Louis invents the electric telegraph.
In 1774 he realised an early electric telegraph. The telegraph had a separate wire for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet and its range was only between two rooms of his home. -
James Watt invented First Steam Engine
The Watt steam engine (alternatively known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine) was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum -
The First Fleet settled in Australia 1 May 1788
The First Fleet is the 11 ships which left Great Britain on 13 May 1787 to found a penal colony that would become the first European settlement in Australia. -
Australian Gold Rush in Ballarat
the discovery of gold brought many people to Australia. -
Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb
Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light -
The First airplane
the Wright brothers made the first successful experiment in which a machine (aka airplane) carrying a man rose by its own power, flew naturally and at even speed, and descended without damage. -
The Titanic set sailed
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. -
Invention of the movie camera
The first patented film camera was designed in England by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in 1888. He built and patented an earlier 16 lens camera in 1887 at his workshop in Leeds.
