Great Britain in Sherlock Holmes times.

By luciabautistap
  • smelted iron with coke

    smelted iron with coke

    Abraham Darby smelted iron using coke in 1709
  • Agricultural

    Agricultural

    The historian Arnold Toynbee created the idea that between 1750 and 1830, there was an Agricultural Revolution
  • steam engines

    steam engines

    James Watt made stem engines much more effective giving huge saving on fuel
  • Arc Lamp

    Arc Lamp

    Humpry Davy invented the arc lamp
  • Bicycle

    Bicycle

    Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented a bicycle in 1839
  • School for poor children

    School for poor children

    The Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children
  • Machine Gun

    Machine Gun

    Richard Gatling patented the machine gun
  • motor car

    motor car

    Karl Benz invented the motor car
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 1

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 1

    Miss Morstan go to Baker Streeet to talk to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson about her father´s dissapearence
  • Sign Of Four: Chapter 2

    Sign Of Four: Chapter 2

    A dark man take Dr. Watson , Holmes and Miss Morstan to South London to the house of Thaddeus Sholto
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 3

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 3

    Holmes, Watson and Miss Morstan meet Thaddeus Sholto
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 4

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 4

    Holmes found Bartholomew Sholto`s dead body
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 5

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 5

    Thaddeus Sholto was arrested by Mr. Latrade, because they think that he has murdered Bartholomew
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 6

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 6

    Holmes and Watson know that Jonathan Small went on a boat called "Aurora"
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 7

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 7

    The Baker Street boys search Jonathan Small
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 8

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 8

    They discovered that Thaddeus Sholto was not the real killer of Bartholomew Sholto
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 9

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 9

    Holmes and Watson found the tresure
  • The Sign Of Four: Chapter 10

    The Sign Of Four: Chapter 10

    Jonathan Small told the story of why he has stolen the treasure
  • Secondary Schools

    Secondary Schools

    The Education Act established a system of secondary schools

  • Economic historians

    During the 1960s, economic historians questioned this view suggesting that the changes were not really the work of this group and that they were just very good self-publicists