The 20th-Century Scientific-Technical Revolution
Mikulas Teich looks at the impact of scientific transformations since 1900, and how these changes have produced a new world culture and global organisation.
Volume 46 Issue 11 November 1996
The Autobahn Myth
Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Miracles
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.
Wonder-Weapons - A Means to the End?
Vasily Andreev on how far War (and the fear of it) has fuelled innovation this century.