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In around 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines.
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'Turnip' Townshend introduced the turnip and the Norfolk four-course rotation of wheat‒turnips‒barley‒clover onto his farm.
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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.
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Output increased 15-fold in the century 1815‒1914.
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Henry Talbot invented photography.
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In 1839 Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented a bicycle.
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In 1844, the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children.
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In 1885 Karl Benz invented the motor car
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The Public Schools Act (1868) reformed Britain's public schools, such as Eton and Harrow.
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In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented the cell phone
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Toynbee (1884), and the first historians of the Industrial Revolution thought that the industrial growth had been stimulated by Britain's trade.
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John Pemberton invented Coca Cola.
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Miss Morstan visits Sherlock Holmes and shows him the pearls and a letter.
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They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and treasure.
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They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondicherry Lodge.
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Sherlock Holmes uses his magnifying glass to examine the secret room.
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They arrive to Pondicherry Lodge and find Bartholomew dead.
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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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Inspector Jones arrests Thaddeus Sholto for the murder of his brother
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Watson goes 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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Inspector Lestrade, Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora in police boat. They kill the native and catch the man with a wooden leg.
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Jonathan Small tells the story of the Agra treasure and th Sign of Four,
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The Parliamentary Enclosure movement was said to have destroyed the old three-field system, and created the modern 'patchwork' of enclosed fields.
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A H John (1961) thought that growth had been stimulated by the Agricultural Revolution. This had increased the population and therefore domestic demand.
