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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Lightning Rod invented
The Lightning Rod was invented by Benjamin Franklin. He discovered it when he attached a metal key to a kite which hit lightning. -
Book Social Contract published
Social Contract was published by Jean Jacque Rousseau. The book believed that people are the government's power and government jobs were to make people happy. -
Newly-improved Steam Engine
James Watt managed to improve the previous version of the steam engine as it ran more efficiently. The improved version ran of both coal and water. -
Spinning Jenny invented
Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves and named it after his daughter. It was a much quicker way of spinning silk and was one of the earliest technological inventions of the Industrial Revolution. -
First sighting of Australia
Captain Cook sailed on the Endeavour and saw the land of Australia for the first time. He named it as Botany Bay and sailed back to report to King George III. -
Death of Jean Jacque Rousseau
Death of a Swish Philosopher
-Wrote The Social Contract" book in 1762
-Believed humans were naturally good and corrupted by society, not the other way around. -
Spinning Mules invented
Samuel Crompton invented the first Spinning Mule in 1779. The machine was used to spin cotton and was used in many factories during the Industrial Revolution. -
Circular Saw invented
Circular Saw was invented by a named Samuel Miller. The saw made cuts more accurate and straight as it cut using the teeth of the blades. -
First Fleet
First Fleet arrives in Australia in the year 1788. These were the first white settlers to discover and own Australia. The journey took two hundred and fifty two days with over a thousand people on board. -
Cotton Gin invented
The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney is 1793. The machine is used to serperate cotton from its seeds and therefore increasing the production efficiency. -
First Steam Locomotive
Robert Trevithick invented the first steam locomotive in the year 1801. The invention used a steam engine and was used to transport goods and people at a quick speed. -
First Steam Engine Railroad built
First steam engine railroad was built and invented by George Stevenson. The railroads were used to assist the steam locomotives in terms of direction. -
Van Diemen’s Land Massacre
This massacre took place in Tasmania where four shepherds killed thirty aboriginals before throwing them off a cliff. The aboriginals didnt do anything but the white settlers treated them worse than slaves. -
Typewriter invented
A man named William Austin Burt invented the typrwriter in 1829. This invention was a more technological way of writing however the first version was actually slower than handwriting. -
Discovery of Electro-Magnetic Currents
Michael Faraday discovered Electro-Magnetic Currents in 1831. The discovery is that a volt intersects with a conductor when varying in a magnetic field. -
Telegraph invented
The typewriter was invented by Baron Schilling von Canstatt in 1832 and had a total of sixteen black and white keys. It was to communicate and interact with people in long distances. -
Pinjarra Massacre
The massacre too place in Western Australia where a tribe of Aboriginals and a group of police attacked. The number of deaths after added up to fifteen. -
Waterloo Creek Massacre
This massacre took place in New South Wales where there was conflict with the Aboriginals and the police. Approximately forty or fifty people were killed in this incident. -
Myall Creek Massacre
This massacre took place in New South Wales in the year 1838. The incident saw the white people type up twenty eight aboriginals before killing them. Seven white men were found guilty and later hung. -
Butcher's Creek Massacre
This massacre occured due to the fact that the white settlers vandalised a camp of the aborginals when the men were gone. The aboriginal men killed them in retaliation before the police came and killed them for retaliation. -
Start of Gold Rush in Australia
Beginning of the famous Gold Rush in Victoria. People came from all over the world to mine for their fortune. It was an event filled with conflict and excitement. -
Issac Singer's Sewing Machine
Issac Singer created an swing machine that consisted of a flying shuttle and a foot pedal which powered the machine. The version was the first steps to the modern design of sewing machines. -
Hornet Bank massacre
The Hornet Bank Massacre occured in 1857 and was caused by several killings. The aborginals killed a few white people for retaliation before the massacre occured where the white people looked for revenge. -
Cullin-Ra-Lingo Massacre
The Massacre occured in Queensland. A group of armed forty aboriginals randomly attacked a camp site of white people. The number of deaths was nineteen and the cause was mysterious. -
Dynamite invented
Alfred Nobel created an explosivr dynamite using gun powder and nitroglycerin. The invention was used in mining as some rocks and material were too hard to dig. -
Telephone invented
Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone in 1870. Electrical sounds waves could be transmitted to both devices indiviually. -
Electric Lighting invented
Thomas Edison invents the first ever electric light bulb. It was a very effective invention as people no longer needed candles and relied on electric lighting. -
First automobile
The first automobile was invented Karl Benz as it ran on an internal combustion engine. This was the first step to the modern cars today. -
Electric motor invented
Nikola Tesla creates an electric motor which involves two currents. The currents rely and uses the magnetic fields to rotate the electric motor. -
First Vacuum Cleaner
John Thurman creates the first ever vaccum cleaner that runs on a motor. The invention relied on the motor as the power came from it.
