Regency Science and Invention: Puffing Billy

I have posted in the past about the first steam locomotive developed about a half a decade earlier, but Continue
I have posted in the past about the first steam locomotive developed about a half a decade earlier, but Continue
Author, engineer, inventor, and all around bad a&* woman, Sarah Guppy nee Beach seemed to have a fevered imagination for solving a menagerie of problems. Continue
With the US Census rapidly approaching, I am thinking about counting people and its origins. On March 10, 1801 the first British Census was held. Continue
The Picture of London for 1802 The Farington Diary (1923) In the early 1800s in No. 1 Leicester Square, a curiosity was on display for Continue