Great Britain in Sherlock Holmes Times

By Catalinapedro
  • Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby

    Abraham Darby smelted iron using coke (1709), Henry Cort's puddling process made wrought iron (1784), and Henry Bessemer's Bessemer converter (1856) and the Gilchrist-Thomas process (1879) made steel.
  • Turnpike Trusts

    Turnpike Trusts

    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.
  • Robert Bakewell

    Robert Bakewell

    Robert Bakewell used selective breeding to develop the New Leicester sheep.
  • Coke of Holkham

    Coke of Holkham

    Coke of Holkham publicised the new ideas by inviting hundreds of people to his 'sheep shearings'agricultural shows.
  • Water Frame

    Water Frame

    Richard Arkwright's Water Frame was a spinning machines.
  • The battery

    The battery

    Alessandro Volta invented the battery
  • The Atom

    The Atom

    John Dalton discovered the Atom
  • Thomas Telford

    Thomas Telford

    Between 1803 and 1821, Thomas Telford alone built 1000 miles of road, including 1000 bridges. His greatest achievement was the London‒Holyhead road (1815‒1826).
  • The Ragged Schools

    The Ragged Schools

    the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children.
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    In 1888 Miss Morstan went to Holmes and Watson house,in Baker Street,to tell that her father dissapeared.Every eyer on the same day , she received a small box with a pearl in the post.
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Holmes read in the Times of 29 April 1882 that Major Sholto ,an army officer and the friend of Captain Morstan,died the day before in Norwood ,south London.They were going to the meeting point with a dark man.Miss Morstan found a map of The Sign of Four in the desk of her father.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    When they arrived Thadeous Sholto's house,Thadeous told they the story of the father of Miss Morstan,that he died.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    Barthlomew Sholto was found in his room with a smile in his face and a thorn poisioned in this head.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    Holmes and Watson investigated Bartholomew´s room,Inspector Lestrade arrested Thadeous Sholto and Watson went to Lambeth to find the dog Toby.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    Jonathan Small,Mr.Smith and his son went with ``The Aurora´´´to the river
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    The Baker street boys start to look for ¨the Aurora´´
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    A busy man that was Sherlock Holmes disguised said that he found `The Aurora´´
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    Holmes and the others found "The Aurora" and then Jonathan Small, that was in the Aurora, tell the story of why he stole the treasure.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    Jonathan Small was obligated to steal the treasure,
  • Education Act

    Education Act

    The 1902 Education Act established a system of secondary schools.