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Defence & security

August 1945: ‘Little Ships’ achieve more than Dunkirk heroics

Defence & security

July 1945: Stepping aboard a captured German U-boat

Sir Edmund Hillary (left) and Tenzing Norgay (Credit: Tenzing Norgay, via Wikimedia Commons)
Medical & healthcare

June 1953: Oxygen breathing kit for climbers on Mount Everest

Automotive

May 1960: Donald Campbell’s legendary Bluebird car

Auguste Vérité’s astronomical clock (detail)
Civil & structural

April 1872: Auguste Vérité’s astronomical clock gets a mixed reception

Testing times: young inventors get little practical help and advice to get their idea implemented

Archive opinion — Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio

Civil & structural

October 1856: The Westminster Clock

There were two identical armoured trains in service during the First World War: one for the East Anglian coast and one for the east coast of Scotland
Defence & security

February 1919: First World War armoured trains

Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, August 1945
Defence & security

January 1946: Report on bombing of Hiroshima

Materials

December 1914: Armour all at sea

Plans for London's new sewers
Civil & structural

June 1858: Designing London’s sewers

Defence & security

November 1905: Farewell to the inventor of the torpedo