Industrial Revolution And Convicts
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è stato aggiornato: 9 mag 2018
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Jethro Tull invented the seed drill which plowed, planted and covered the seeds for maximum efficiency.French C. Hopffer/ first patented/ the Fire Extingui/sher.Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the Piano.Gabriel Fahrenheit creates the first Mercury Thermometer.Rotherham invented the intricately designed Iron Plow which halved the weight of wooden plows therefor cutting the workload from 4 horses to 2.John Kay invents the flying shuttle in which evolutionized weaving.Arnold Toynbee`s book described that the Industrial Revolution lasted from 1760 to 1840.Canals started being a large source of transport.James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny which furthermore Industrialized the textile industry.Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny which furthermore Industrialized the textile industry.Joseph Priestley invents Carbonated and Soda Water.Richard Arkwright patented the Spinning Frame, this invention could spin 96 threads at once.James watt invents Steam CondenserJoseph Priestley demonstrated that plants produce a gas that can be consumed by flame and animals. He discovered the gasses to be carbon dioxide and oxygen.Alexandra Cummings invented the first flushed toilet.James Watt invented the first truly reliable Steam Engine after other less reliable models throughout the 1600’s. It included a Crankshaft and gears. It was the foundation for the more modern Steam Engines today.James Watt discovered that steam engines could spin machines.After the recovery of a Cretaceous strata at Woodberry, New Jersey. Sir Richard Owen presented his treatise on British fossil reptiles to the British Association officially in 1841. This was one of the first proposals that these fossils/once dinosaurs were reptiles.New Dinosaurs Named
The Heterosaurus and the Pelorosaurus were named this year.The Bicycle was invented in Scotland by Kirkpatrick MacmillanThe first ambulance arrives on the streets of Europe by Baron Larrey.Zoonomia
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.
- Erasmus DarwinThe Soft Drink was invented by Joseph Priestley, former inventor of Carbonated and soda water.The Battery was invented by Alessandro Volta.Oldest identifiable fossil discovery
Professor John Woodward had a large fossil collection and withholding in its grasp laid the oldest identifiable fossils. The fragments are presumed to have haled from a Megalosaur. Majority of fossils originated in Stonefield.First Dinosaur to have taxonomy
Pterosaurs (Now recognized as Pteractylis) is the first fossilized creature to have been taxonomized, following is PlesiosaurStockton Darlington Railway constructed.serious epidemic of cholera59000 people died of tuberculosisMatthias Schleiden proposed that cells make up plants.Animal tissues
Theodor Schwann proposed that all animal tissue is composed of cells.Ouse Valley bridge was constructed.Serious epidemic of choleraSamuel Johnson published the first English Dictionary in April 15th after 9 years of writing.Cell Theory
Rudolf Virchow decided on the cell theory which states “All organisms are composed of cells (by Schleidan and Schwann) and cells can only come from other cells by (Virchow).An Absconding Act was passed and offenders could be charged a further 15 years of confinement.A Harbouring Act was passed to prevent people helping Absconders, with a 100 pound fee if they did.The colony of New South Wales was proclaimed by King George IIIBritish parliament informed that Lord Sydney had agreed to send convicts to New South Wales.The first fleet of 11 ships to NSW left Portsmouth England leaving Capt Arthur Phillip in command.
The fleet consisted of at least 1350 passengers, 750 were convicts and another 570 were free men,
women and children, plus four companies of marines. About 20% of the convicts were women and
the oldest convict was 82. Roughly 50% of the convicts had been tried in Middlesex and most of the
rest were tried in the county assizes of Devon, Kent and Sussex.SECOND FLEET of convicts arrived.THIRD FLEET of convicts arrived.First free SETTLERS arrived.Van Diemens land was established as Tasmania.A Bread Act was passed were all bread from Van Diemens Land must be weighed in front of the buyer before being sold.The Ross Bridge was constructed after Governor MacquariePeriodi
The Industrial RevolutionAbout 50,000 British criminals were transported to colonies in America.British prisons and hulks began to over-flow.The fleet arrived in Botany Bay but the
landing party was not impressed with the
site, and moved the fleet to Port Jackson
and settled in Sydney Cove.Convicts were transported to a fro from England to NSW during this time.AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - hostilities with Britain brought transportation to a halt.
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