Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in British industrialisation, earliest first.
- Watt’s rotative engine makes steam usable for driving machinery
- Arkwright patents the water frame
- More than half the population of England and Wales lives in towns
- Crompton develops the spinning mule
- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
Hints
- Three of these are eighteenth-century textile or engine developments.
- Water frame 1769, mule 1779, rotative engine in the early 1780s, the railway 1830, the urban majority recorded in 1851.
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- Arkwright patents the water frame
- Crompton develops the spinning mule
- Watt’s rotative engine makes steam usable for driving machinery
- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
- More than half the population of England and Wales lives in towns
Why
Sixty years separate the first spinning machines from the first intercity railway, and another twenty pass before the urban majority. Set out this way the sequence looks less like an explosion than like a long compounding, which is exactly what the revised growth figures describe.
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