Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 ...

London is an economic powerhouse and it has been since the 16th century. Here is the history of London as a business hub.

but a mark of 17th-century engineering innovation. The property’s ornamental fountains and ponds, for example, were only made possible by a specially built machine that pulled water from the ...

In a volume entitled "New England's First Fruits", published in London in 1643, an article on Harvard College, the College being evidently numbered among New England's "first fruits", a brief ...