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EDITORIAL WORK IN PROGESS Railways (1840~50), gaslights, Building boom, sewage, Anaesthetics (from 1847), Telegraph (30s-40s) First non-paying schools for children ("ragged schools") Great Exhibition; Height of empire 
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| Travel: Irish Potato blight (1846-52) – 1 million Irish starved to death, many more emigrated, also affected Scotland. 
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Inventions: Inventions – Lenoir/Otto petrol engine 1860; Discoveries – bacteria/pasteurisation 50; Radio waves 1860; Steel making 1850s; |
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