The Trans-Siberian Railway
Igor Slepnev on the fin de siecle project that yoked together the Russias of Europe and Asia.
History Today
The March of Time
Asa Briggs comments on the historical division of time, and whether such landmarks as centuries and millennia hold any real meaning.
The World Transport Revolution
Theo Barker on how 150 years of innovations in global movement have transformed what we eat, think and wear
How the World Became Smaller
From pigeon post to the Internet - Dagmar Lorenz on how the communications revolution has produced the global village.
How Science and Technology Changed Art
Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity.
The Heavens and the Earth
Rudolf Kippenhahn on how astronomy has altered our vision of the universe - from 10th-century Cairo to the Big Bang.
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.
The Autobahn Myth
Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.
Wonder-Weapons - A Means to the End?
Vasily Andreev on how far War (and the fear of it) has fuelled innovation this century.
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.