Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History
- Transport Revolution
- Turnpike Trusts
- Invested in better roads
- It didn't work!
- No means of carrying heavy stuff.
- Roadbuilders {cool people}
- John Loudon McAdam
- Thomas Telford
- Canal Builders
- James Brindley
- Francis Egerton, Bridgewater
- Advantage of canals
- Carried heavy stuff
- Disadvantage of canals
- Slooooow
- 5 reasons why railways rock
- More jobs
- Holidays!
- All classes can travel
- Better living conditions
- Faster {VROOM}
- Transporation
- Materials-Factories
- Factories-Markets
- Industrial Revolution
- Domestic System
- Why factories rock
- Larger workforce
- Cheaper
- Machines got bigger
- Quicker
- Why people put up with it
- Fear of losing job
- No TU
- No other income
- No vote
- The bad stuff
- The living and working conditions
- Child labour
- Railways
- George Stephenson
- 1st engine
- Bulcher
- The line he 1st
recommended
- Stockton-Darlington
- Prize-1829
- Rainhill
Trial
- Rocket
- Robert Stephenson
- London-Birmingham
- I.K Brunel
- London-Bristol
- Railway Act 1844
- 1d/mile must stop all stations
- Importance
- Working class
could travel
- 1846 Standard Gauge Act
- National Network
- All trains same size