Great Britain in Sherlock Holmes times

By anabenjamín
  • Thomas Newcomen's steam engine

    Thomas Newcomen's steam engine

    Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially steam engine to pump water out of mines.
  • Arkwright's spinning machine

    Arkwright's spinning machine

    Arkwright water frame spinning machine increased the production of textiles.
  • Crompton’s mule spinning machine

    Crompton’s mule spinning machine

    Samuel Crompton’s mule spinning machine used for textiles production.
  • Cort’s puddling process

    Cort’s puddling process

    Henry Cort’s puddling process made wrought iron.
  • Cartwright’s power loom

    Cartwright’s power loom

    Edmund Cartwright’s power loom was a weaving machine.
  • The battery

    The battery

    Alessandro Volta invented the battery.
  • The atom

    The atom

    John Dalton discovered the atom.
  • The arc lamp

    The arc lamp

    Humphry Davy invented the arc lamp.
  • Photography

    Photography

    Henry Talbot invented photography.
  • The telegraph

    The telegraph

    Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.
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    Rowland Hill invented the postage stamp.
  • The bicycle

    The bicycle

    Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented a bicycle.
  • The Great Britain steamship

    The Great Britain steamship

    Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Great Britain steamship.
  • School to very poor children

    School to very poor children

    The Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children.
  • The sewing machine

    The sewing machine

    Isaac Singer invented a sewing machine.
  • Bessemer’s converter

    Bessemer’s converter

    Henry Bessemer’s converter made steel.
  • The machine gun

    The machine gun

    Richard Gatling patented the machine gun.
  • The dynamite

    The dynamite

    Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
  • The laws of genetics

    The laws of genetics

    Gregor Mendel published his work on the laws of genetics.
  • The typewriter

    The typewriter

    Christopher Scholes invented the typewriter.
  • Britain’s public school

    Britain’s public school

    The Public School Act reformed Britain’s public school, such as Eton and Harrow.
  • The telephone

    The telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.
  • The Cheap Trains

    The Cheap Trains

    The Cheap Trains Act made railway companies offer a greater number of cheap trains for workers.
  • The motorcar

    The motorcar

    Karl Benz invented the motorcar.
  • Coca Cola

    Coca Cola

    John Pemberton invented Coca Cola.
  • the sign of four

    the sign of four

    Miss Morstan visits sherlock holmes and shows him the pearls and a letter
  • the sign of four

    the sign of four

    they meet Taddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondgery Lodge
  • the sign of four

    the sign of four

    They arrive to Pondgery Lodge and found Bartholomew dead
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Holmes and Watson find footprints and marks in the room made by someone with a wooden leg.
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Sherlok holmes uses his magnifying glass to examine the secret room.
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Inspector Lestradearrests Thaddeus Sholto for the murder of his brother
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Watson goes to lambeth and borrows a dog called Toby
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Toby follows the smell of the tar and leads Holmes and Watson to a housenext to the river.
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    holmes tries to find Mordecai Smith and the Aurora
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Inspector Lestrade,holmes and watson chase the aurora in a police boat.They kill the native and cathc the man with the wooden leg
  • The sign of four

    The sign of four

    Jonathansmall tells the story of the Agra treasure and the sign of four.
  • Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis

    Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis.