Technology: General Issues

Many people know that Tesla was a scientific genius, instrumental in developing modern electricity and communications. What, perhaps, they dont kno...

The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery and exploration,...

Who invented the flying machine? Was the Titanic really the first unsinkable ship? How would one use a phonoscope? Using old Victorian documents, ...

How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discoveryReinventing Discovery argues that we are living a...

Born into poverty in the Scottish Border country in 1757, Thomas Telford rose to become a towering figure of the Industrial Revolution in Britain a...

In Jaguar from the Shop Floor, Brian Martin tells the story of his life as a long-time employee at Jaguar, giving a first-hand account of the devel...

Casting the Nets provides an unparalleled insight into the great digital transformation of Britain''s communications networks over the period 1984-...

From the structure of the atom to the jet engine, from the world's fossil record to the theory of relativity: here are the critical breakthroughs i...

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerstons extensive programme of fortification against a feare...

An illustrated biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), the foremost engineer in an age of great engineers, when the Industrial Revolution w...

If the twentieth century saw the rise of Big Science, then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werretts...

Bristol and Brunel, the two are inseparable. What would the Avon Gorge be without the slender lines of the suspension bridge? The Floating Harbour ...

The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how...

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Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years in the mid-nineteenth century, Isambard Kingdom Br...

In 1858 the Great Stink of London made much of the city along the Thames uninhabitable. Between 1848 and 1854 nearly 25,000 Londoners died of chole...