Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Early Shipping--Mediterranean Trade--Rise of the P. and O. and other Lines--Transatlantic Lines--India and the East--Early Steamships--First Steamer to cross the Atlantic--Rise of Atlantic Shipping Lines--The _Great Eastern_ and the New Cunarders _Campania_ and _Lucania_ compa...
Early Shipping--Mediterranean Trade--Rise of the P. and O. and other Lines--Transatlantic Lines--India and the East--Early Steamships--First Steamer to cross the Atlantic--Rise...
8. CHAPTER IX.9. CHAPTER I.Francis Horner, writing early in this century, said that 'Iron is not only the soul of every other manufacture, but the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.' Cobden has said...
10. CHAPTER II.When Mr Godfrey Wedgwood, a member of the famous firm of potters at Etruria, near Burslem, Staffordshire, went to work about forty years ago, his famous ancestor and founder of...
11. CHAPTER III.Although the sewing-machine has not put an end to the slavery of the needle, and although 'The Song of the Shirt' may be heard to the accompaniment of its click and whirr, just...
12. CHAPTER IV.What is wool? 'The covering of the sheep, of course,' replies somebody. Yes; but what _is_ it? Let us ask Professor Owen. 'Wool,' he says, 'is a peculiar modification of hair, c...
13. CHAPTER V.There is a vast difference between the way in which the precious metal is now extracted and the primitive methods which were considered perfect in the earlier part of the centur...
14. CHAPTER VI.Since early days, Woolwich has been an important centre for warships and war-material. Here ships were built and launched when England first began to have a navy of specially co...
15. CHAPTER VII.Sir Walter Scott once told a friend that if he did not see the heather once a year he would die. He saw it much oftener than once a year. When the building and planting of Abbot...
16. CHAPTER VIII.Early Shipping--Mediterranean Trade--Rise of the P. and O. and other Lines--Transatlantic Lines--India and the East--Early Steamships--First Steamer to cross the Atlantic--Rise...
17. CHAPTER IX.The story of Penny Postage and its inception by Sir Rowland Hill is full of romantic interest, and that great social reform, introduced more than fifty years ago, has unquestion...