1863 saw the opening of The Tube in London, the world’s first underground railway.

In 1873 the typewriter was invented by Christopher Sholes.

Alexander Bell, a Scotsman living in America, invented the telephone in 1876.

Karl Benz invented the petrol driven motorcar in Germany in 1885. The initial speed limit in this country was 4mph, which was then raised to 20mph in 1896.

The Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph in 1894. Moving pictures were born in France.

These are obviously just a small selection of the inventions that were made during this time, and it is astonishing to see how many of them are still in use, in one form or another, today.