Inventions
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- Material Culture of Journalism: From Poking Clay to Poking Pixels
- Transylvanian Abroad: Domjen, Franklin, and the Travelling Electrical Show
- Alfred Nobel - Chemist, Inventor, and Engineer
- Alphonse Bertillon Invents the Mugshot
- B36 Peacemaker - Big, Bad and Beautiful
- Batteries - Energy on the Move
- Beer Glasses
- Ben Franklin v Counterfeiters - a Tale of Money and Science
- Betty James' Slinky Story
- Binoculars
- Bohr and the Bomb
- Brunel, Father and Son - British Engineering Genius
- Buran - The Russian Space Shuttle
- Catseyes
- Clockwork Radios
- Crescent/Monkey Wrenches
- Crystal Radios
- DynaTAC 8000X - the World's First Mobile Phone
- Electronic Cinema
- Filing for a Patent
- Florence Lawrence - the First Movie Star
- Fountain Pens
- Functions of Chairs in the 20th Century
- Gecko Tape
- Geographical Information System
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Globes
- Gregor Mendel and the Basics of Genetics
- HOTOL - The British Space Plane
- Hearing Aids
- Horseshoe Crabs and the Harvesting of Their Blue Blood as a Medical Resource
- How Mechanical Clocks Work
- How They Get Stripes on Toothpaste
- How to Make Compression Lift Paper Planes
- In Search of the Unbreakable Comb
- Internal Poker Vibrators
- Jaguar - a Car Manufacturer Born to Perform?
- Jets and Rockets
- John Boyd Dunlop
- Ker-Ching! Ker-Ching! Cash Register Fraud
- Kevlar
- King Cotton: Agriculture, Commerce, and Slavery
- Knitting Machines
- Lamarck, Scientific Bridesmaid
- Lampposts
- Light-emitting Diodes
- LitterMaid - the Robotic Pooper-Scooper for Cats and Their Owners
- Longitude
- Lugnuts
- MIDI - Speaking a Synthesiser's Language
- Magnetic Levitation - the Future of Rail Travel?
- Major Sibley's Tent
- Manhole Covers
- Matches
- Melvil Dewey: Libraries, Antisemitism, and Sexual Harassment
- Microscope Objective Lenses
- Morse Code - a Method of Communication
- Napier's Bones - a 17th Century Aid to Calculation
- Nikola Tesla
- Non-electric Can Openers
- Optical Lenses
- Plastic
- Polyester
- Predicting the Future - John Elfreth Watkins' Brave New World
- Psion Wavefinder Digital Radio Receiver
- Quill Pens
- Radiation Energy Detection Units
- Radio-Controlled Clocks
- Real Men Don't Carry Umbrellas: From Wellington to Obama
- Recumbent Bikes - the Future is Laid-back
- Richard Trevithick and the First Railway Locomotive
- SCUBA Regulators
- Safety Matches - a Story of Light and Dark
- Samuel Franklin Cody - Pioneer of British Aviation
- Sir Alexander Fleming
- Sir Humphry Davy FRS (1778 - 1829)
- Space Pens
- Speak-Your-Weight Machines
- Stephenson's Rocket
- Stirling Engines
- Tape Hiss
- Telephones
- Telescopes
- Accidental Electrocution of John Feeks: A Victim of the Current Wars
- Amazing Mobius Strip
- Banjo Machine: Musical Crimes of the 1890s-1900s
- Beaufort Wind Scale
- Bolt-action and Associated Developments of Military Small Arms
- Bow Drill - Fire without Matches!
- British Imperial Airship Scheme
- Calendar in Anno Domini (AD)
- Christopher Marlowe Conspiracies
- Deckchair
- Enterprise and the Founding of the US Balloon Corps
- Fairey Rotodyne - an Opportunity Missed
- First Canoe to Fly Around the Statue of Liberty
- Heineken World Bottle - A Brick That Holds Beer
- High-rise Fire Curtain
- History of English Black Powder and Gunpowder
- History of Magnetic Recording
- History of the Button
- History of the Digital Watch
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Internally Explosive Nail
- Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison
- Last Escaped POW: How Georg Gaertner Spent 40 Years on the Run and Invented a Tennis Racquet
- Medieval Crossbow
- Myth of Thomas Crapper
- Pressure Cooker
- Self-Tipping Hat
- Square-wheeled Bicycle - a Road of Hyperbolics?
- Story of Cement
- Tempest Prognosticator
- V-Bomber Ejector Seat Story
- Valkyrie Spacecraft - The Next Giant Leap?
- Wheel
- Widget
- World's Oldest Lightbulb
- Thrust2 - a Record-Breaking Car
- TiVo - the Hard Drive for your Television
- Toilet Seats
- Tracked Vehicles
- Two Scoops, Please: Alfred Cralle Invents the Ice Cream 'Disher'
- Umbrellas
- Using a Cartridge Pen
- Water Towers
- What3words: How to Be Found on Earth, or Finally, an Electronic Thumb
- When Dolls Talk Back: A Brief History
- Zero
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