Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0811 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Railways: Manchester to Liverpool, 1830, and Time Zones
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The idea
Experimental lines in eighteen twenty, then the Liverpool and Manchester Railway of eighteen thirty, the witness's first intercity passenger railway, with the Stephensons' locomotives. Fifty miles an hour by mid-century and six thousand five hundred miles of British track by eighteen fifty, the anchor's figures.
In practice
Greenwich time zones invented for the timetable.
Where people slip
A massive industry of booms and collapses, the anchor says.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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