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Early stages of the Industrial Revolution
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Coal was first discovered
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This was when the first coalmine was invented in australia
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Local coal was used to boil seawater and created fuel
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From 1825,26 and 29 more steam engines were introduced.
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The Sophia Jane was having its paddles fitted so it was ready for it maiden voyage. Meanwhile the Suprise another steamer voyaged from Sydney to Parramatta on the 1st of June
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The first paddle steamer to regulary operate in Australian watwers was the Sophia Jane. The Sophia Jane arrived in sydney and was built in England.
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There were 6 engines including one at the Australian agricultural Company's Newcastle Coalmine.
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In new south wales there were 7 mills
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Peter Russel took over the 1st Sydney Engineering foundry establishement in Australia which was a significant event in the industrialisation of Australia.
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By 1840 there were 26 engines in flourmills and 10 in other industries.
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People were dressed in Tweeds made in Paramatta
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In Blackwattle Bay, Sydney a textile factory was established
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Iron and Steel smelting had its first attem at establishing in near Nittagong New South Whales
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the horizontal engineer began to supplant all other kinds of steam engines.
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The Gold rushes of 1851 in both New South Wales and Victoria not only brought wealth but also an increase in population. Sydney and Melbourne suddenly became growing cities, with buildings to rival those in other parts of the world.
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235000 yards per annum of wollen cloth was the out put
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Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, Morton Bay, Adelaide and Tasmania had steamship services running between ports.
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In Victoria, the first railway line in Australia opened between melbourne's Fliners Street Station and Port Melbourne, then called Sandridge
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While South Australia had in 1854 a horse drawn railway operating at the mouth of the Murray River, the first line carrying steampoweredtrains opened between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.
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