Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour Many experiments were under way

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

'Jeddo and Belfast

his first at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo

The home of Danish author Andersen (1805-1875)

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour Many experiments were under wayThomas 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.