Author: Iwan Rhys Morus

As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific ...

As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific ...

The only scientist to appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Far...

During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwa...

'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism ... Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.' - DUNCAN BELL, N...

The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science...

This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly i...

In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of ...

'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era befor...

For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and und...