Unit 4: The Industrial Revolution Chapter 5: The Railway Age Recap The arrival of the steam train with Stephenson’s Rocket, and the Liverpool to Manchester railway. Vocabulary to recap: Rocket. Key dates 1859 Brunel’s SS Great Eastern is launched 1866 Telegraph wire is laid beneath the Atlantic Key people Isambard Kingdom Brunel Celebrated Victorian engineer, built the Great Western Railway
Unit 4: The Industrial Revolution Chapter 5: The Railway Age Recap The arrival of the steam train with Stephenson’s Rocket, and the Liverpool to Manchester railway. Vocabulary to recap: Rocket. Key dates 1859 Brunel’s SS Great Eastern is launched 1866 Telegraph wire is laid beneath the Atlantic Key people Isambard Kingdom Brunel Celebrated Victorian engineer, built the Great Western Railway