Alfred Nobel: Dynamite Inventor Dies in Italy
Richard Cavendish remembers the life of Alfred Nobel, who died on December 10th, 1896.
Richard Cavendish remembers the life of Alfred Nobel, who died on December 10th, 1896.
Michael Bonavia on the long-delayed link between Britain and the Continent.
From pigeon post to the Internet - Dagmar Lorenz on how the communications revolution has produced the global village.
Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity.
Rudolf Kippenhahn on how astronomy has altered our vision of the universe - from 10th-century Cairo to the Big Bang.
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.
Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of the third millennium.
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.