Themes

The themes are:

The air we beath Joseph Black, Henry Cavendish and Joseph Priestley discovered the gases that make up our atmosphere. Read More.

The clothes we wear a Clerical Gentleman (Rev. Edmund Cartwright) and a poor spinner and weaver (Samuel Crompton) revolutionised the making of cloth. Read More.

Makers of new machines made the machines that gave the first mass production of goods, making them less expensive and more available. Read More.

Makers of the modern world who built our roads, railways, bridges and harbours giving us our modern “infrastructure”. They also gave us the basis of modern medicine. This turned out to be a big theme and had to be split into sub-themes. Read More.

Discoverers of the World discovered new science and explored new places. This turned out to be a big theme and had to be split into sub-themes. Read More.