Perseus was born from a golden shower which rained on his mother one day. His only known feats were to behead a passenger from 'Snakes On A Plane' and rescued someone from drowing when he was in 'Baywatch'.
Hercules was a British bicycle.

Attempts to harness steam power had been attempted since the 1st century AD but the most useful engine was the one developed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712 , called the atmospheric engine. It was further developed and different versions of it were in use in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution..

Britain, for world domination it is not necessary to actually occupy a country, sometimes all that is required is for a few gunboats to turn up at a major port for that nation to change its policy.