Science and technology

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Industrial revolution

Making the modern world

The bikini was showcased to the world for the first time in July 1946. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

8 weird things that happened in July through history

Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951.

Second World War

Alan Turing: The man, the enigma

From The Library

A female computer programmer demonstrates a new computer in the 1960s.

The changing role of women in British computing

Charles Lindbergh, photographed alongside the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’.

A pioneering flight: Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic crossing

Peter Mayhew, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill, on-set of the film Star Wars

Star Wars: why did the film make history?

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Q&A: Samuel Morse invented the Morse code, but how did he do it, how long did it take, and how long before it was accepted?

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Life of the Week: Albert Einstein

A 15th-century map of the world illustrating a Latin edition of Ptolemy's the 'Geography'. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

General prehistory

12 giant leaps for mankind – from carnivorism to Magna Carta

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Getty Images)

Yuri Gagarin: 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the first man in space

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

6 women in science history you (probably) didn’t know about

Science and suffrage

First World War

Science and suffrage

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Six trivial decisions that changed British history

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In pictures: a history of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures