industrial revolution

By finn kenafake

  • coal discovered

    coal was first disscovered in australia by europeans at the mouth of the hunter river in new south wales .

  • the first steam engine

    the first australian steamengine arrived in the colony of new south wales and was instaled in john dicksons flour mill in the darling harbour

  • textiles

    simeon lord established a mill in sydney, he then got aproval to mill, dye and dress cloth from a female factory
  • Period: to

    more steam engines

  • more mills

    there were now seven woollen mils in nsw alone

  • smelting iron and steel

    people first tryed to smelt iron and steel in australia

  • gold rush

    because of the gold rush in sydney and melbourne became growing cities. this encouraged new exiting inventions

  • steam ships

    steam ships were running services in ports around the country

  • railways

    the first railway line was opened in australia. it was between flinders street to port melbourne.

  • nsw railway

    new south wales's fist railway was from sydney to parramatta it was 22 kilometres

  • tasmanian railway

    tasmanias first railway opened running between launcestion to deloraine. it was 72 kilometres

  • queensland railway

    the first railway in queensland ran from ipswich to grandchester and then extended to the darling downs before conecting to brisbane

  • gold rush infanstructure

    an infanstructure for development of an industrial society was put in place

  • northern territory railway

    nothern territories first railway opened running from darwin to pine creek. it was 253 kilometres.

  • act railway

    ACT's first railway opened running from queanbeyan(nsw) to and canberra it was 10 kilometres