Aquila  |  Industrial Revolution
Smoke gets in your eyes - a whistle-stop tour of the industrial revolution - timeline / On yer bike! - inventions Mt Tambora Indonesia running machine pedespeed steam horse Steam Man Isambard Kingdom Brunel bridges steamships / In a spin - spinning jenny carding rovings treadle shuttle weft warp flying shuttle - try hand-spinning - cotton colonisation exploitation / Meet the Mudlarks - search for ancient artefacts anaerobic Thames mud / Gregor MacGregor Prince of Poyais - confidence trickster 1820s / Industrial evolution - Peppered moths Darwin Wallace Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Darwin's moth morph DNA mutations transposon jumping genes / Design, paint, print, repeat - make William Morris-inspired wrapping paper / Let's debate - Is progress always good? / What's your job? Fun quiz / 2020 The Year the World Stood Still - How to handle the news when it gets scary / Thames Tunnel - Marc Isambard Brunel - Richard Trevithick tunnelling shield oldest part of London Underground / The Sultan's Scoff story by Chitra Soundar / Win CIRO STEMP solar-powered robot kit
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Below is a selection of articles in Aquila Industrial Revolution.