Michelangelo had a message for all serious entrepreneurs.

Arkwright invented the factory, without which modern life would be impossible.

Edward Stone wondered if the willow tree might have more in common with the Peruvian cinchona tree than just its damp habitat.

His alpaca-wool mills near Bradford proved the social benefits of private enterprise in the right hands.

John Goodricke’s observations of Algol won him the Copley Medal while still in his teens, despite his disability.

Josiah Wedgwood, a village potter whose disability meant he could not use a potter’s wheel, brought about a quiet revolution in English society.