How the World Became Smaller
From pigeon post to the Internet - Dagmar Lorenz on how the communications revolution has produced the global village.
Science & Technology
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.
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.
Forge Mill Needle Museum
Richard Cavendish unthreads the history of this Worcestershire museum.
The X Factor in X-rays
New innovations in radiology have sparked public criticism as to its safety and cost-effectiveness. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray in 1895 and its subsequent use in medicine sparked similar safety and health hazard concerns throughout its development.
Potter's Museum of Curiosity
Richard Cavendish muses on the 'stuffed' of history in the animal kingdom in Bodmin Moor.