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| -stocking frame invented by William Lee |
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-Abraham Darby
-how to make coke from coal
-more efficient fuel for iron production |
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| -Thomas Newcomen build steam engine |
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| -John Kay invents the flying shuttle |
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-James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny
-makes 8 times more yarn |
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| -James Watt creates a better steam engine |
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| -steam powered mills with automatic weaving machines began to be built |
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| -William Murdoch uses coal gas for house lighting |
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-Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin (engine)
-cleans large amounts of raw cotton |
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-luddites (workers) riot
-fears that they will be replaced by machines |
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| -Michael Faraday demonstrates the of electric motors |
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-Isambard Brunel builds a tunnel under Thames River
-completed in 1842 |
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-first ever screw propelled steamship built in Britain
-S.S.Archemedies |
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-Bulk steel creation made possible by Siemens Martin
combination of concrete and steel
-construction of skyscrapers enabled |
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| -first transatlantic telegraph cable laid |
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| -Alexander patents his telephone or 'acoustic telegraph' |
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-first ten storey skyscraper built
-Brooklyn Bridge is completed |
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| -Karl Benz uses an internal combustion engine in the first automobile |
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| -the Wright Brothers conduct their first powered heavier than air flight |
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| -Henry Ford uses a production line to produce the Ford model T |
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| -Henry Ford uses a production line to produce the Ford model T |
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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| The Industrial Revolution was and increase in production brought about by the use machines and characterised by the use of new energy sources- John Green |
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-cheap to mine
-abundant
-replaced charcoal
-1842 30 million tonnes of coal was being produced per year, 1800s 10, 1700's 3 |
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
benefits and advances |
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-transportation improved: canals, railroads, bridges and roads
-textile manufacturing, coal mining and iron production was quicker
-mass production
-electricity
-engines
-new forms of communication: telephones and telegraphs
-new building materials= new/different buildings eg. skyscrapers |
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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-Australia seen as a solution to the rising crime created due to industrialisation in Britain
-criminals/convicts sent to Aus
-1813 steam mill was operating in Sydney, major roads built and stock raising industry had developed inland
-1850 railroads established
-1872 telegraph cables linked to Aus |
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| The Rabbits is about the colonisation of Australia and the effects it had on the Aborigines. Rabbits= white men, Bandicoots=Aborigines. It talks about the struggles they had as a community and the horror the the Europeans put them through |
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