Science & Technology

B.J. Copeland and Diane Proudfoot recall the contribution to the war effort in 1939-45 of the British computer scientist.

Patricia Fara calls for a more inclusive, and realistic, history of Science.

F.M.L. Thompson reviews two publications on the history of the automobile.

The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one.

Andrew Smyth recalls the vision and enterprise of one of Louis XIV’s chief ministers and a Béziers businessman.

The man who gave his name to the notorious killing machine died on February 26th, 1903

Andrew Mendelsohn outlines the attractions of a fast-growing an popular field of study.

Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated on 3 October 1952.

Richard Pflederer evaluates a vital tool of the age of discovery.

Francis Murphy challenges the idea that science was religion’s foremost enemy, in this winning essay in the 2001 Julia Wood Award.