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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Newhaven College Ideas exam 2014 industrial revolution
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History
9th Grade
10/15/2014

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1689
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-stocking frame invented by William Lee
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1709
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-Abraham Darby
-how to make coke from coal
-more efficient fuel for iron production
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1710
Definition
-Thomas Newcomen build steam engine
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1733
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-John Kay invents the flying shuttle
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1765
Definition
-James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny
-makes 8 times more yarn
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1775
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-James Watt creates a better steam engine
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1779
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-steam powered mills with automatic weaving machines began to be built
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1792
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-William Murdoch uses coal gas for house lighting
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1793
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-Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin (engine)
-cleans large amounts of raw cotton
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1811-1815
Definition
-luddites (workers) riot
-fears that they will be replaced by machines
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1821
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-Michael Faraday demonstrates the of electric motors
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1825
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-Isambard Brunel builds a tunnel under Thames River
-completed in 1842
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1839
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-first ever screw propelled steamship built in Britain
-S.S.Archemedies
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1863
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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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1866
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-first transatlantic telegraph cable laid
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1876
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-Alexander patents his telephone or 'acoustic telegraph'
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1883
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-first ten storey skyscraper built
-Brooklyn Bridge is completed
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1885
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-Karl Benz uses an internal combustion engine in the first automobile
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1903
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-the Wright Brothers conduct their first powered heavier than air flight
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1908
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-Henry Ford uses a production line to produce the Ford model T
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1908
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-Henry Ford uses a production line to produce the Ford model T
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
defenition
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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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COAL
Definition
-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
Definition
-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
Australia
Definition
-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
disscuss
Definition
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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