Find out if you have what it takes to make it in this cut-throat Victorian trade.The technology developed in Victoria's reign brought a social and economic revolution whose effects are still being felt today. During the Victorian era, Britain could claim to be the world's superpower, despite social inequality at home and burgeoning industrial rivals overseas.

Designed to carry 4000 passengers and enough coal to sail to Australia without refuelling en route, the ship was 693 feet long, 120 feet wide and weighed over 18,900 tons. Colonial, military and commercial implications were quickly appreciated. By Professor Pat Hudson.Make tough choices as you balance coffins and coins. The global network spread rapidly, with many countries establishing their own systems. The spread of the railways also brought about, through time-tabling, a regularisation of time throughout Britain. From 1852 the carriage of freight provided the railway companies with the bulk of their income. The complex structures of international trade developed by the Victorians and the maintenance of the process of wealth generation derived from them were dependent upon efficient means of communication. He was the curator of a major exhibition about the Victorians at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Up to 1709, furnaces could only use charcoal to produce iron. In 1854 work started at Millwallon the Thames in east London on the building of the Great Eastern. By 1901 the German liner the Deutschland could cross the Atlantic in under 5 days.The success of the Great Britain encouraged Brunel and his backers to create one more ship. As a result, the government sponsored the development and maintenance of the routes and, increasingly, the cost of building the ships.

The records of scale set by the Great Eastern were only finally broken by the super liners of the Edwardian era, the Lusitania of 1907, the Titanic of 1912 and the Imperator of 1913. How did it happen?Find out which of her ministers she loved 'like a father' and which drove her into a white rage. The primary function of the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain was the protection of these trade routes and their supply bases. Since the latter part of the eighteenth century the process of industrialisation had built a firm foundation for nineteenth century growth and expansion. The first long distance lines were opened in the first years of Queen Victoria's reign, the London and Birmingham in 1838, part of Brunel's London to Bristol route the same year and the London and Southampton in 1840. By 1878 Britain had constructed two overland and one maritime telegraph links to India, part of a network that by the end of the century had reached almost every corner of the world. Overview: Victorian Britain, 1837 - 1901. Imperial railway building projects were often inspired by strategic as well as industrial and commercial motives, but such projects, notably in India and Africa, opened up huge and long lasting markets to British manufacturers.British-made locomotives, rolling stock and railway equipment were exported around the world throughout the Victorian period.The building of the railway network was the major achievement of the Victorian period, changing for ever both social patterns and the landscape of Britain.The spread of the railway in Victorian Britain was closely linked to the development of the electric telegraph.

The Lower Middle Class in Britain ed. The famous railway contractor Thomas Brassey built railways in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Russia, India, Argentina and Australia. By Christopher Hibbert.How did the Great Rebellion - otherwise known as the Indian Mutiny - of 1857 shape modern India?

Competition was intensified by the setting up by Samuel Cunard of a new shipping line. In many ways, the Victorians owe their unique place in history to their imaginative and successful exploitation of three new communication technologies, the steamship, the railway and the electric telegraph.During the reign of Queen Victoria Britain emerged as the most powerful trading nation in the world...The steamship has a long, pre-Victorian ancestry, dating back at least to 1783 when the Marquis de Jouffray d'Abbans steamed his little boat, the Pyroscaphe, across the Seine. The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his son, Robert, and Henry Booth, for the 1829 Rainhill Trials. British engineers, British construction teams and British capital built railways throughout the Empire, in the Americas and in many parts of Europe. The railways, offering as they did new opportunities for travel and commerce, and breaking down social barriers in the process, were immediately popular, a popularity encouraged by acts of parliament that ensured that trains conformed to standards of speed and comfort and offered rates that were affordable by all. A railway boom and mania followed during the 1840s, with promoters and speculators planning lines all over Britain.Like the steamship, the railway predates the Victorian era.By 1845 2441 miles of railway were open and 30 million passengers were being carried.

In 1837 Cooke and Wheatstone developed the electric telegraph which used an electric current to move magnetic needles and thus transmit messages in code.

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