Businessmen in Liverpool engaged George Stephenson to build one of his new-fangled railways.

To the poor of England, the Worcestershire man gave affordable pots and pans, and to all the world he gave the industrial revolution.

James Cook describes his first sight of a beloved Australian icon.

A twelve-year-old girl from Lyme Regis made a historic discovery while selling seashells to tourists.

Sixteen-year-old John Wesley Hackworth brought a locomotive over to St Petersburg, and Russia’s railway revolution was ready for the off.

At fifteen John Dalton was a village schoolmaster in Kendal; at forty he had published the first scientific theory of atoms.