Stories by timthorn

UK's first vertical launch rocket will blast off this year

Late Great Engineers: John Fowler – Mastermind of the London Underground

January 1880: Edison's electric light

Thousands duped by hoax firework display 'created by AI'

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals

Project will utilise muons to assess aging infrastructure

A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery

November 1861: Chalmers' under Channel railway

The Politics of AI

UK firm strikes deal to make space-based solar power a reality

Speaking Clocks

Brandon's History of Online BBC (2007)

ESA launches new lunar simulation facility

Why was this barbecue on the tram tracks?

'Ceefax gave you news when you wanted it' – Teletext at 50

September 1946: The Miles 52, the supersonic aircraft that never was

Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers

Professor Roger Griffin and the Cambridge 36-inch telescope

Spacefinder

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