Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour his first at the wheel

his first at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo

Illustration of the process of heckling hemp to separate the plant fibres

The home of Danish author Andersen (1805-1875)

Many experiments were under way to utilise electricity for public lighting in London

'Jeddo and Belfast

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour his first at the wheelThomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, c1890. Carlyle (1795 1881) wrote a history of the French Revolution which gained him popular as well as academic fame when it was published in 1837. He also wrote The Chartist in 1840, a book opposing conventional economic thinking. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.