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Discovery and Invention
The Hollow Blade Sword Company
Seventeenth-century German craftsmen came seeking a land of opportunity, and found it in County Durham.
Changing Times
The editor of the country’s most famous newspaper had to use a little sleight-of-hand to bring journalism to the people.
by James Parton 1822-1891
Careless Talk
A French sea-captain let his tongue wag over dinner, and New Zealand’s destiny took a different turn.
by William Pember Reeves 1857-1932
Abel Tasman in New Zealand
The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.
The Character of Captain James Cook
Captain Cook’s friend and ship’s surgeon David Samwell gives us his impressions of the great explorer.
by David Samwell 1751-1798
The Birth of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was heading for a dead end when a broken component showed him the way.
by Thomas A. Watson 1854-1934