Michael Faraday showed that gases could be compressed and evaporated to preserve food and make ice.

Railways not only brought fresh, healthy food to the urban poor, they improved the conditions of working animals.

Opened in 1725, the Tanfield Railway is one of the oldest railways still operating anywhere in the world.

Britain never knew she was a nation of voracious readers until printing entered the steam age.

A Cornish professor of chemistry with a poetic turn who helped make science a popular fashion.

The engineer put his own life on the line for the safety of his fellow-workers in the coal industry.