The First Cyborg
A creature, part human, part machine, was born of a desire to end the tragedy and waste of the Great War.
A creature, part human, part machine, was born of a desire to end the tragedy and waste of the Great War.
Halley’s Comet will not be visible again until 2061. But how did scientists discover how to accurately predict its return?
Klaus Dodds looks back 50 years to a crucial – and ultimately tragic – moment in the UK’s exploitation of its oil and gas resources.
The Scientific Revolution put an end to beliefs that were once considered rational but now seem bizarre. If we want to understand why, we need to look at the increasing importance of the ‘fact’, says David Wootton.
The mathematician and pioneering computer programmer was born on 10 December 1815.
Britain’s Industrial Revolution is most closely associated with the Midlands and the North. But the capital was also a centre of innovation and enterprise, as David Waller explains.
E.R. Truitt revisits John Cohen’s 1963 article on the history of automata and the quest to recreate humanity.
A German scholar living in 17th-century London revolutionised the way scientists shared news of their latest advances.
The discoverer of oxygen - a man of ‘singular energy and varied abilities’ - was, writes A.D. Orange, also a bold progressive thinker.
Darwin’s cousin in the nineteenth century, writes C.H. Corning, was a daring explorer of the world and a pioneer in the scientific study of racial qualities.