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There was significant industrialisation in Britain before 1780.
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Humphry Davy invented the arc lamp: a lamp were light is produced by marking a strong electric current jumper between two carbon rods
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In 1844, the Ragged Schools Union was set up to give schooling to very poor children.
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Economic growth – the railways needed bricks, cement, sleepers, iron, coal etc. Those industries were stimulated. In 1847, more than a quarter of a million people worked on the railways. Their wages helped the economy to grow.
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By 1850, the canal network covered 4,000 miles.
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Richard Gatling patented the machine gun in 1862
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The Public Schools Act (1868) reformed Britain's public schools, such as Eton and Harrow.
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In 1870, 423 million passengers travelled on 16,000 miles of line.
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By 1880 it became clear that speedier travel and railway timetables needed the whole country to take up a national standardised time. Before this date people used local time that varied from place to place
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Toynbee (1884), and the first historians of the Industrial Revolution thought that the industrial growth had been stimulated by Britain's trade
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Miss Morstan visits Sherlock Holmes and shows him the pearls and a letter
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Inspector Lestrade, Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora in a police boat. They kill the native and catch the man with the wooden leg.
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They meet Thaddeus Sholto and he tells them about his father and the treasure.
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They take a cab with Thaddeus Sholto to Pondicherry Lodge.
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They arrive at Pondicherry Lodge and find Bartholomew Sholto dead.
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. Holmes and Watson find footprints and marks in the room made by someone with a wooden leg
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Sherlock Holmes uses his magnifying glass to examine the secret room.
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Inspector Jones arrests Thaddeus Sholto for the murder of his brother.
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Watson goes to Lambeth and borrows a dog called Toby.
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Toby follows the smell of the tar and leads Holmes and Watson to a house next to the river.
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Holmes tries to find Mordecai Smith and the Aurora.
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.Inspector Lestrade, Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora in a police boat. They kill the native and catch the man with the wooden leg.
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Jonathan Small tells the story of the Agra Treasure and the Sign of Four.
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By 1902, the whole British Empire was linked together by a network of telegraph cables called the 'All Red Line'.
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In 1914, the coal industry employed a million men in 3,000 collieries
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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
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A H John (1961) thought that growth had been stimulated by the Agricultural Revolution. This had increased the population and therefore domestic demand.
