Science & Technology

Mikulas Teich looks at the impact of scientific transformations since 1900, and how these changes have produced a new world culture and global organisation.

Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.

Vasily Andreev on how far War (and the fear of it) has fuelled innovation this century.

Richard Cavendish unthreads the history of this Worcestershire museum.

New innovations in radiology have sparked public criticism as to its safety and cost-effectiveness. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray in 1895 and its subsequent use in medicine sparked similar safety and health hazard concerns throughout its development.

Richard Cavendish muses on the 'stuffed' of history in the animal kingdom in Bodmin Moor.

Richard Pflederer on the technological and cartographical advances of the early modern naval powers of Holland and England

Babbage’s Difference Engine and the mechanical pre-history of computing.

The story of Michael Faraday, the genius of electricity, is very much a classic tale of the rise from obscure origins to scientific eminence. But as Frank James notes, an important chapter was the commercial work Faraday did for the army and navy in order to secure his freedom to pursue pure research.