Science & Technology

Glory or Gravity?

John Hutchinson and Isaac Newton were both devout scholars who believed that the natural world and God were inextricably linked. The similarities ended there.

Rocks of Ages

On his early travels across the world it was geology that struck Charles Darwin’s interest.

Knobs or Points?

Is lightning natural or divine? Opinion split royalists and republicans. 

The First Live-Streaming

The théâtrophone premiered in Paris, at the International Exposition of Electricity, on 11 August 1881.

Love on the Wire

The advent of telecommunications gave rise to a new literary genre through which female telegraphers and writers found social freedoms.