The first person to swim the English Channel
How Edward Jenner saved lives
The first passenger train
Why build a bridge over the Thames
Insights Index - Short snippets of historical events
Contrails
An early description of contrails captured on film
The first powered flight
The earliest mention of the invention of manned powered flight
Qwerty keyboard
The first mention of a qwerty layout keyboard
The discovery of Uranus
The earliest mention of the planet Uranus
