Search The Copy Book
Discovery and Invention
Tales of scientific innovation and merchant enterprise, from steam power and life-saving medicines to new trade partners far away, and new ways to reach them.
← Page 1
91
The Iron Horse and the Iron Cow
By Samuel Smiles
Railways not only brought fresh, healthy food to the urban poor, they improved the conditions of working animals.
92
The Tanfield Railway
By Clay Lane
Opened in 1725, the Tanfield Railway is one of the oldest railways still operating anywhere in the world.
93
Earl Stanhope and the Re-Invention of Printing
Britain never knew she was a nation of voracious readers until printing entered the steam age.
94
The Geordie Lamp
Based on an account by Samuel Smiles
The engineer put his own life on the line for the safety of his fellow-workers in the coal industry.
95
Sir Humphry Davy
A Cornish professor of chemistry with a poetic turn who helped make science a popular fashion.
96
Dud Dudley
The 17th-century entrepreneur developed a way of smelting iron with coke rather than charcoal, but the Civil War frustrated his plans.
The Copy Book
Think and Speak
Comfortable Words
Word Games
Blog
Subjects
Authors
Events
Year
Search
