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1750- 1850. The time of inventions. Many things were invented during this era, such as steam, electricity, the cotton grin, the steam engine, refrigeration, aeroplanes and the panama/suez canal.
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James Watt was the creator of the steam engine.
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In 1769, a French inventor by the name of Nicolas Cugnot (Nicolas Joseph Cugnot) had invented the first mechanical automobile which was a steam powered trycicle.
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The first fleet coming from Britain on the 18th of January 1788 had arrived at Botany Bay, Australia. The fleet had then moved to Port Jackson. Two more convict fleets had also arrived in 1790 and 1791.
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The slave trade was abolished in 1807.
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The parliament of the UK had passed an act, in 1833, to improve the condiotions for young children working in factories. They had called this the "factory acts."
A few of the acts were that children at the age of nine or under couldn't work, that children couldnt work at night and that children would get two hours of schooling a day. -
The Parliament of England had accepted the "abolition of slavery act," giving all the slaves in the British Empire their own freedom.
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On the 1st of January 1901 Australia became an independent country under their own federation. The british Parliament gave Australia the right to govern their own six colonies.
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The wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur Wright) were the inventors of the first plane.
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Eli Whitney, an American inventor had created the Coton Grin in 1793.
