Regency Science and Invention: Paddlesteamer PS Comet

Scottish inventor and scientist Henry dedicated many years to improving the steam apparatus for the purposes of powering water vessels.  Toiling from between 1800 and Continue

Regency Science and Invention: Smallpox Vaccine

British physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) is credited with the invention of the first vaccine to be administered against a contagious disease. Pioneering the concept of Continue

Regency Advertisements: Clothes Balls

This ad appeared in the April 1815 issue of Ackermann’s Repository. I wasn’t able to find much more about this “valuable discovery” so if any Continue