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Steam Engines
Steam was used to pump the water from the mines. Each steam engine has a bolier. The heat from the fuel changes water into steam inside the boiler. The steam expands, or takes up many times the space of the original water. -
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Industrial Revolution
This time span was when machinary and factories started to create machinary objects such as the cotton mill. Children and women were greatly used to run the machines. -
William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce was a deeply religious English member of the parliament for Hull. He was persuaded for the abolition of the slave trade and for 18 years he regularly introduced anti-slavery motions in parliament. He retired from politics in 1825 and died in 1833, he was buried near his friend Pitt in Westminster Abbey. -
US Independence
Independance day is annually celebrated on July 4. It is the anniversary of the publication of the declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1776. -
Brittain shipped convicts
English convicts were shipped to America. In 1783 the American War of Independence ended. Therefore America refused to accept any more convicts so England had to find somewhere else to send their prisoners. New South Wales was a solution. -
The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was the inventer of the cotton gin. Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, which separated cotton seeds from the short-staple cotton fibre. -
The suez canal
The suez canal was made in Egypt. It was used to travel more easily. It travelled to the red sea and mediterranean. It allows transportation by water between Europe and Asia without navigation around Africa. -
The Factory Acts
Working days for young women would start early in the morning (aged thirteen to eighteen) -
Refrigeration
An american physician created the first refridgerator that alowed people to keep their produce cold, fresh and alive. The first ice-making machine was created in 1854 -
Automobile
Karl Benz created the first engine for automobiles. He was well rewarded for his invention that lead other citizens to make their own distance with an automobile. -
The Panama Canel
Late 19th Century technology started to be advanced and it allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. -
World War I
The First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war.he outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places, with great enthusiasm.
