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Transal Hantic Slave Trade
Slave is one person who is the property of another.
European ships prepared for voyages in ports like Liverpool.
They sailed from ports with goods to trade in Africa for slaves.
After European arrived, Africans sold people of other tribes, goods have been exchanged for slaves, such as weapons and alcohol.
Slaves have been squeeze into terrible conditions cabin and delivered to Americas.
Slaves uprisings and have been sold at auction in Americas.
Ships loaded with goods back to Euro. -
Steam Engine
Steam engine was invented in 1698 by Thomas Savery. There were lots of scientists/inventors who improved the steam engine after Thomas Savery. it has directly triggered the Industrial Revolution and contributed the human society a lot. It is much more powerful than human/animals. -
Power loom
A power loom is a mechanized loom powered by a line shaft, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. -
Cotton gin
It is a machine that was invented by Eli Whitney in 1794. It revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Train
The first train that ran on railway was invented in 1840 by Richard Trevithick. Train can deliver a lots of goods, it is a most important transport in the world. -
Mines Act
It was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It prohibited all girls and boys under ten years old from working underground in coal mines. -
10 Hours Act
Restricted the working hours of women and young persons (13-18) in textile mills to 10 hours per day. -
Telephone
telephone was first invented in 1860 by Antonio Meucci. People can have long distance talk. -
TNT
The chemical compound trinitrotoluene -- or TNT as it is most commonly known -- was first created in 1863 by German chemist Julius Bernhard. It can be used in mining, military. It is a high explosive dynamite so it can make mining, killing easier. -
Abolition of slavery in America
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.". -
Dynamite
Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder. Nobel obtained patents for his invention in England on 7 May 1867, in Sweden on 19 October 1867. -
Airplane
in 1903, airplane was first invented by Wright brother. In 1919, the first civil aircraft was created since that people can travel much faster than train. -
Television
By the 1920s, when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems.