Author: Anthony Burton

This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of ...

Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britains traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on t...

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature...

On Christmas Eve 1801, Cornish mining engineer Richard Trevithick tested the first steam locomotive on the road. Though it was short-lived, explodi...

Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was ...

This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, bu...

This is the story of the men who built Britains canals and railways not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn a...

The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conflict that affected the world forever. However, it ...

This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick''s first experimental road en...

Most historians recognise the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, in...

This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tent...

Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all potters, working in traditional wa...

Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most rev...

Anthony Burton has travelled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its...

This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is ...

Britain's Canals is a charming and insightful exploration into the amazing architecture and engineering wonders that surround Britains inland water...

Over a thousand years ago the Chinese discovered that the slender filaments that formed the cocoon of the silk moth, could be woven into beautiful ...

The 93-mile West Highland Way is indisputably Britain's most spectacular long-distance path. The first section, following the eastern shore of Loch...