Science & Technology

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

Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but this has not come without costs. 

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

What does it take to establish a new scientific truth? In the case of heliocentrism, the death of its sceptics. 

The railway revolutionised Victorian Britain, but were its trains on the right track? It was difficult to gauge.

The varied social, economic and institutional conditions that shaped science over more than two centuries.

The obsession with gifted children is an ancient one, but it took on new life in the 20th century.

Dmitri Mendeleev identified a general theory underlying all elements on 1 March 1869.

Electric cars seem to offer a solution to the problem of the internal combustion engine. But technological advances have other consequences.