Great movements and those who achieved them

Prison reform (John Howard)

The abolition of the slave-trade (William Wilberforce)

The amelioration of the criminal code (Sir Samuel Romilly)

Popular education (Lord Brougham)

Cheap literature (Constable, Chambers, Knight and Cassell)

Penny postage (Sir Rowland Hill)

The repeal of the corn-laws (Richard Cobden, John Bright, and C.P. Villiers)

The repeal of the fiscal restrictions upon literature and the press (Thomas Milner, Gibson and others)

The introduction of gas (Murdoch, Winsor, Clegg, and others)

The steam-engine, and its application to locomotion by land and water (Watt, Stephenson, Fulton and Bell)

The electric telegraph (Cooke, Wheatstone, and others)

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