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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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Braham Darby smelted iron using coke (1709)
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Thomas Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine to pump water out of mines.
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There was significant industrialisation in Britain before 1780.
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The rate of economic growth between 1780 and 1830 was much slower than previously thought.
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It used to be thought that enclosure displaced farm-workers to the towns, but historians now doubt this.
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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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Beetwen 1750 and 1830, Robert Bakewell used selective breeding to develop the New Leicester sheep.
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Beetwen 1750 and 1830, coke of Holkham publicised the new ideas by inviting hundreds of people to his 'sheep shearings' ie agricultural shows
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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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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Great Britain steamship (using screw propellers)
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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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Richard Gatling patented the machine gun.
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Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
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Forster's Act set up state-funded board schools for primary education.
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Captain Morstan disappeared
Captain Morstan returned from India to England
Captain Morstan sent a telegram to his daughter
Major Sholto dead
Mary Morstan( the daughter of Captain Mortan) received a box with a pearl. -
Miss Mary Morstan went to the Lyceum theater with Holmes and Watson and there was a man waiting for they in a cab.
Mary gives a map to Holmes that she found in his father desk ( it said THE SIGN OF FOUR ). -
Holmes, Watson and Mary got into the house and met Thaddeus Sholto and tells they that Captain Morstan was dead.
He tells they that before Sholto's dead ,he told his secret about the treasure.
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The Education Act made school attendance compulsory for children up to the age of 10.
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Bartholomew was found dead in his home, because a poison thorn, and the treasure was missing
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Holmes thought that two people were the murdered, one of the two was with a wooden leg: Jonathan Small, but the police thought that was Thaddeus Sholto.
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Holmes and Watson met Mordecai Smith and her hasband take the steam lunch with a person with a wooden leg
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Watson called the baker street boys and told they to found a black launch called the aurora and said they that Mordecai Smith is the owner of the launch
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In 1844, the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children
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Karl Benz invented the motor car.
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John Pemberton invented Coca Cola.
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The Baker Street boys had found nothing so Holmes, Watson and Lestrade board a police launch.
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The police launch followed the Aurora down the River, there were four people on the boat.
Lestrade said said to the launch stop and shoot a gun.
The police took a large indian chest from the Aurora. -
Jonathan small tolds his histori about the woooden leg and said that the treasure was for her and other four people trom the Andaman Islands.
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The coal industry employed a million men in 3,000 collieries.
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A H John thought that growth had been stimulated by the Agricultural Revolution. This had increased the population and therefore domestic demand.
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Joseph Inikori (1987) has focused on the profits made by the slave traders, which provided money for investment in British industry.
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the African historian Joseph Inikori (1987) has focused on the profits made by the slave traders, which provided money for investment in British industry.
