Science & Technology

Ian Fitzgerald describes the maiden flight of the 'Spruce Goose', the largest seaplane ever built, on November 2nd, 1947.

A cabinet of curiosities or a medium for enlightening the general public? Patricia Fara looks at how debate over democratising scientific knowledge crystalised in the development of the newly-formed British Museum.

David Nash on how Victorian arguments about design in the universe echo in science-theology debates today.

Penny Johnston introduces the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland.

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.