A Draught of the Silk-Windles or the Method of Winding and Twisting Silk for the Weavers from The Universal Magazine, vol. 1, August 1747, Text: Malcolm Dick Raw silk is extracted from the cocoon of the silkworm. Britain’s climate was too cold to rear silkworms which we...

A Portrait of James Watt, James Watt: Inventor Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives James Watt was born in Greenock, Scotland in ...

A Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood: Industrialist Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem...

A Portrait of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth: Inventor, Educator and Reformer Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives In 1744,...

A Portrait of William Murdoch, William Murdock: The Incomparable Mechanic Image: Portrait of William Murdoch Image from: Local Studies and History, Birmi...

Biography of Dud Dudley, Image: Front page of Dud Dudley's Metallum Martis (Reprint of 1665 edition) Text: Malcolm Dick Image from: Local ...

Birmingham: “The Toyshop of Europe”, Image: Matthew Boulton by C F Von Breda, 1792. Oil on Canvas. Boulton was the most famous of Birmingham’s toymakers. The portra...

Britannia Railway Carriage Works, Birmingham, Image from: The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858 Local Studies and History, Central Library, Bir...

Dodds and Son, Holmes Engine and Railway Works, Rotherham, Image from: The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858 Local Studies and History, Central Library, Birmin...

Dodds and Son, Holmes Engine and Railway Works, Rotherham, Image from: The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858 Local Studies and History, Central Library, Birmin...

Interior of Britannia Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, Image from: The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858 Local Studies and History, Central Library, Bir...

Letter from Erasmus Darwin to James Watt, 1767/08/18 [p1], Darwin writes to Watt about his ideas for improving carriages and commenting on Watt's developing theories for steam engines. -----------------...