John Bright dismissed fears that digging a tunnel under the English Channel would encourage a French invasion.

Once railway engineer Thomas Brassey made a promise he kept it — even if he wasn’t aware that he’d made one.

On the Feast of St John the Baptist, June 24th, 1497, Venetian navigator John Cabot claimed North America for the King of England.

After an accident at a level crossing, the bosses of the Leicester and Swannington Railway acknowledged that drivers needed more than lung power.

For George Stephenson, the motto of the Stockton and Darlington Railway was a code to live by.

Victorian economist Alfred Marshall argued that it was no accident that free societies and coal-powered industries are found together.