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Industrial revolution
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Discovery of Australia
Captain James Cook discovered Australia on his first voyage of the Pacific ocean. He spent months mapping the eastern coast, around Parramatta. -
Watt's first efficient steam engine
This is a life size model of Jame's Watt's project, the steam engine. This increased industrial production and promoted factory work. -
First successful Steamboat
Robbert Fulton created the world's first working steamboat. This allowed for easy travel of goods and were used mostly in rivers. -
First 'successful' Internal combustion engine enginered.
Belgian-born engineer, Jean JosephEtienne Lenoir invented and patented a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal. In 1863, Lenoir attached an improved engine using petroleum to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete an historic fifty km road trip. -
Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
The United States president Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14th, 1865, when attending a show at a theater. At the time, the American Civil war was coming to a close. This was a major event to occur during the times of the Industrial Revolution. The event helped influence the use of security for people of importance. -
Alfred Noble invents Dynamite
Dynamite was the first high explosive device that could be safely controlled. This allowed for easy, safe destructions of buildings and mines. -
Bell Invents the Telephone
A major breakthrough in modern technology, the invention of the telephone allowed for easy communication over distances. At first, they were big and heavy , though, after time, they developed into easy-to-use machines that were easy accesible to everyday people on an average wage. -
Hertz discovers the Radio wave
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was the first to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves by using scientific instruments to transmit and receive radio pulses. By doing it in this particular way, he could prove that 'it' was radio waves, by ruling out all other electromagnetic pulses through the use of the scientific instruments that he developed and engineered himself. This was a crucial discovery in the world of science. Hertz died at the age of 36 of Wegener's granulomatosis. -
First succesful plane Flight
Two American Brothers, the Wright Brothers, were Inventors and Aviation pioneers and were the first to succesfully fly a Aeroplane over a distance in 1903. This ultimately revolutionised travel and made the world the place it is today. Travelling by plane saves time but also saves money over going by-sea. -
Henry Ford creates the production line
The creating of the production line put cars 'on the market' in more ways then one. Firstly, it increased the production of cars. The fact of there being more cars out there, made it more affordable for the average citizen to buy their own car. This had an onflowing effect in society. -
Titanic Disaster
The sinking of the RMS Titanic occured on the night of the 14th of April, through to early morning on the 15th while en route to New York from SouthHampton. There were more than 1500 casualties. The disaster is one of the worlds's most tragic events to occur to this day. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferinand
This is the cause of World War 1. Austria and Hungary declared war on Seribia, they called in Russia, which brought in Germany, which then brought in France and Great Britian.