Britain’s first steam railway is opened from Stockton to Darlington.
1812
Luddites destroy machines.
1801
The first official census is taken in Britain.
1800 1804
Richard Trevithick demonstrates the first steam locomotive.
1831
The first cholera epidemic breaks out.
1810 1820 1830 1833
Slavery is abolished throughout British Empire.
1834
Henry Fox Talbot produces the first photograph.
1840 1850 1870 1883 The first
skyscraper is built in Chicago.
1885
The first automobile is built by Karl Benz.
1888
Heinrich Hertz produces the first radio waves.
3
In 1835 31% of workers in cotton and wool factories were under 18 years of age.
1830
Stephenson’s Rocket pulls the first train from Manchester to Liverpool.
1876 1848
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the first telephone.
1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first powered flight.
1905
1899 Wireless radio is invented.
CONSIDER THIS When you have completed this chapter, discuss the following points with your partner, in small groups or as a class: 1. What was it like to live and work during the Industrial Revolution? 2. How did the Industrial Revolution change the landscape of Britain? 3. How did the speed of change impact on the daily lives of people living in Britain during the 1800s and 1900s?
My Portfolio See Sources & Activity Book pages 122 – 135 for linked activities.