Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
80 months ago

Popular myth has it that 19th-century technology was too crude to enable Babbage to complete his Difference Engines. But working to his specifications,...
66 months ago

Some of the following predictions people have made about technology and culture are so hilariously off-base that you can't help but point and laugh.
15 months ago

Today in women's history in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
141 months ago

Kathryn Hughes enjoys an absorbing history of life in 19th-century London.
143 months ago

THE NOMINATIONS IN FULL: Barmouth Bridge. This under-publicised wooden viaduct – one of the longest on the network – symbolises survival...
74 months ago

This guest post is an excerpt from Christopher Many's book, Right Beyond the Horizon – A Motorcycle Odyssey.
59 months ago

The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old...
78 months ago

LOS ANGELES—In that “the show must go on” spirit, live theater is returning to Los Angeles stages. On what used to be its adjoining parking...
41 months ago

The newly invented steam train, traveling so fast and far were blamed for triggering dark desires in men, driving them to insane acts of violence.
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