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Robert Bakewell used selective breeding to develop the New Leicester sheep.
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There was significant industrialisation in Britain before 1780
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After 1750, Turnpike Trusts were set up to improve main roads, for which they charged a toll. In the early 1800s, investment in Britain's roads was more than £3 million a year.
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Alessandro Volta invented the battery
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John Dalton discovered the atom.
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Humphry Davy invented arc lamp.
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Without the Agricultural Revolution, the growing population of England would have starved, and the Industrial Revolution would have been stifled.
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In the long term, however, increased use of machinery meant that fewer farm workers were needed. They left the land and went to the industrial towns of the north of England.
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Some sectors of the economy grew, eg textiles, iron, coal, but the rest stayed stagnant, or grew very slowly.
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In 1833, the government passed the Factory Act making two hours of education a day compulsory for children working in factories. The government also granted money to charities for schools for the first time
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Henry Talbot invented photography.
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In 1844, the Ragged Schools the Ragged Schools was set up to give schooling to very poor children.
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Miss Morstan visits Sherlock Holmes and shows him the pearls and a letter.
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Holmes and Watson find footprints and marks in the room made by someone with a wooden leg
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They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure.
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They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondicherry Lodge
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They arrive at Pondicherry Lodge and find Bartholomew Sholto dead.
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Sherlock Holmes uses his magnifying glass to examine the secret room.
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Inspector Lestrade arrests Thaddeus Sholto for the murder of his brother.
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Watson goes to Lambeth and borrows a dog called Toby.
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Toby follows the smell of the tar and leads Holmes and Watson to a house next to the river.
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Holmes tries to find Mordecai Smith and the Aurora
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Jonathan Small tells the story of the Agra Treasure and the Sign of Four
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Inspector Lestrade, Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora in a police boat. They kill the native and catch the man with the wooden leg.
