Key dates and names of the Industrial Revolution
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When was the seed drill invented?
1701
Who invented the seed drill?
Jethro Tull
When was the steam locomotive invented?
1814
Who invented the steam locomotive?
George Stephenson
When was the steam engine improved?
1764
Who improved the steam engine?
James Watt
When was the telegraph invented?
1844
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
When was the spinning jenny invented?
1764-1765
Who invented the spinning jenny?
James Hargreaves
When was the power loom invented?
1784
Who invented the power loom?
Edmund Cartwright
Which English city was the first to be boycotted and quarantined for cholera?
Sunderland
Where did cholera come from?
India
How many days did it usually take for a cholera victim to die?
10
Define proletarian
A poor person who often lived in a rookery.
When did cholera first come to England?
1831
How many cholera epidemics were there?
4
What were the cholera epidemic dates?
1831, 1843, 1858, 1865
Who was the pioneer of epidemiology?
John Snow
Which water pump did John Snow famously discover was connected to a contaminated water supply and spreading cholera? (DURING THE 1854 OUTBREAK)
Broad Street Pump
Define ‘miasma theory’
The theory that bad air causes illness.
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