How Steam Changed the World

Marion Littlejohn

Sovereign Hill Education

HTAV Middle Years Conference

24th October, 2014

How Steam Changed the World

YEAR 9 Making a Better World ? (1750 – 1914)

Content descriptionStudents investigate …the experiences of men, women and children during the Industrial Revolution, and their changing way of life The Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)The technological innovations that led to the Industrial Revolution, and other conditions that influenced the industrialisation of Britain (the agricultural revolution, access to raw materials, wealthy middle class, cheap labour, transport system, and expanding empire) and of Australia

Elaborations• the impact of steam, gas and electricity on people’s way of life• the experiences of men, women and children during the Industrial Revolution• the population movements and changing settlement patterns• changes to the cities and landscape in European countries and Australia as the Industrial Revolution continued to develop, using photos• the short and long-term impacts of the Industrial Revolution, including global changes in landscapes, transport and communication

The Australian Curriculum; Year 9 - History

A London Knifeboard Omnibus - from 1890-91

London omnibus c. 1820s

HORSE POWER

A waggonway was a timber track used for transporting coal in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

A wooden railway which carried waggons from collieries to the River Tyne has been unearthed

Daily Mail Australia.Thursday, Oct 16th 2014

A waggonway from the former mining town of Tanfield in County DurhamNote innovation of flanged wheel.

1707 Abraham Darby

The cooking pot that changed the world.

1779 The Iron Bridge is cast at Coalbrookdale

Narrow boats at Tring Flour Mills on the Wendover Arm.

The Grand Junction Canal  built between 1793 and 1805 ran from Birmingham to London.

CANALS

Locks control water levels

Narrow barges pulled by horses

The Development of the Canal NetworkBy 1830 there were around 4000 miles of canals. They linked all the main cities and especially the industrial areas of England.

1829 George Stephenson’s Rocket successfully pulled an open carriage carrying 30 passengers at 45 kph.

Rocket (with some post 1829 innovations) as preserved in the Science Museum, London.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

(1806-1859)

Brunel’s Great Western railway linking London to Bristol included this two-mile-long Tunnel at Box; then the longest railway tunnel in the world.

The first train ran in 1838.

1840 The Penny Post is introduced in BritainThe number of letters increased

from 82 million in 1839 to 170 million in 1841

By 1846 – 5,000 miles of railway track are laid in Britain17 years since Rocket’s successful journey

William Powell Frith, Ramsgate Sands or Life at the Seaside1852-4

William Powell Frith, The Railway Station 1862

Launch of the SS Great Britain by HRH Prince Albert in 1843

The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London. 1851

Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. Hyde Park, London, 1851

1851 THE GREAT EXHIBITION

The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, 1851,

North Transept – waiting for the Queen

Agriculture

Machinery

Moving machinery

India - Elephant howdah, presented by the Newab Nazim, 1851

Illustration showing the envelope-making machine demonstrated at the Great Exhibition 1851.

1851 Gold is discovered in Victoria

S.T. Gill, Deep Sinking Ballaarat, 1852

Henry O’Neil, The Parting Cheer

Colonization spread Britain’s Industrial Revolution to Australia.

George Baxter, News from Australia 1854

[Penny post 1840]Pierre Edouard Frere, Washing Dayc. 1837

Last line readsFOUNDRY The Company have a foundry attached to the mine and make all their own castings

Black Hill Company established 1861

Battery consists of 60 stampers

Ballarat 1872 by William Bardwell.

Star of the East Quartz Gold Mine, Ballarat c.1890s

Phœnix Company's foundry, Ballarat

The Australasian sketcher. April 8, 1882

Ballarat station 1903.A load of Sunshine Harvesters leaving Hugh V. McKay’s Ballarat works for export to Argentina Both train and farm machinery made in Ballarat.

http://museumvictoria.com.au/sunshine/intro.htm

Episodes on Brunel’s Great Eastern

&1858 “the Great Stink”

Joseph Bazalgette, Chief Engineer of the London Metropolitan Board of Works, creates the world’s first modern sewerage system.

Three part series produced for the BBC on the History of Railways.

Working steam driven machinery at Sovereign Hill

Sovereign Hill Education Blog on The Industrial Revolution in Australiahttp://sovereignhilleducation.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/the-industrial-revolution-in-australia/