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...manager of the Soho works of Boulton and Watt, makers of steam engines), cheap coal being made available by Davy's lamp. The Soho factory was lit by 2600 lights as early as 1802 by Murdoch. A big improvement in lighting power came with the invention of the mantle (1885), where the flame impinged on a woven fibre sphere impregnated with special salts. Such lights are still...

...managed to shoot the Archduke in the neck and his wife in the abdomen. Sophie died in the car, and Franz Ferdinand shortly after reaching the residence of the Governor. The conspirators could not know, and certainly had not planned, that a world war would result from this act of violence, but in the weeks that followed, decisions were made in Europe’s capitals that...

...manages to be simultaneously sensational, supernatural, romantic and realist. Milly Williamson, in her book The Lure of the Vampire, nails some of the reasons for Dracula’s impact – now and then – and why we are so fascinated by the dishy undead. And over recent years – who would have thought it! – the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer has found its way...

...manage. The little hovel, built of thistle-stalks, in which they slept, neither kept out the wind nor rain; indeed in the latter case the only effect the roof had, was to condense it into larger drops. They had nothing to eat excepting what they could catch, such as ostriches, deer, armadilloes, etc., and their only fuel was the dry stalks of a small plant, somewhat...