Great Britain in Sherlock Holmes Times

By ornellafrancisco
  • Energy with water

    Energy with water

    In around 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines.
  • The population

    The population

    Between 1750 and 1830, the population had grow a lot.
  • Arnold Toynbee

    Arnold Toynbee

    The historian Arnold Toynbee also created the idea that, in the years between 1780 and 1830, there was an Industrial Revolution.
  • Davy Lamp

    Davy Lamp

    Better coal mining techniques allowed deeper mines eg 'roof and pillar' working to support the roof, upcast and downcast shafts to provide ventilation, and the Davy Lamp (1815) to help prevent gas explosions.
  • Education for poor children

    Education for poor children

    the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children
  • Canal Network

    Canal Network

    the canal network covered 4,000 miles
  • The typewriter.

    The typewriter.

    Christopher Scholes invented the typewriter.
  • Railway

    Railway

    423 million passengers travelled on 16,000 miles of line
  • The first historians of the Inustrial Revolution

    The first historians of the Inustrial Revolution

    Toynbee , and the first historians of the Industrial Revolution thought that the industrial growth had been stimulated by Britain's trade.
  • Motor Car

    Motor Car

    Karl Benz invented the motor car
  • 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 Thaddeus 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 Pondicherry Lodge.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    They arrive at Pondicherry Lodge and find Bartholomew Sholto 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

    Sherlock Holmes uses his magnifying glass to examine the secret room.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    Inspector Lestrade arrests 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 house next 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 catch the man with the wooden leg.
  • The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    Jonathan Small tells the story of the Agra Treasure and the Sign of Four.
  • Developed psychoanalysis

    Developed psychoanalysis

    Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis.
  • Universities

    Universities

    Between 1900 and 1909, 'red-brick' universities were founded in Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Bristol, concentrating on science or engineering courses.