Archive

Defence & security

October 1894: The aluminium torpedo boat

July 1877 – The Anti sea-sickness couch

Jan 1856 – The Horse Tank

Defence & security

February 1896 - The gun bike

April 1857 – the garrotte-proof cravat

Rail & marine

March 1856 - The hand-powered submarine

August 1915: The Board of Invention

May 1905: Obituary of Edmund Beckett Denison, Baron Grimthorpe

Energy & environment

March 1914: George Westinghouse

Automotive

February 1906: The valveless motor car

Aerospace

February 1927: a new land speed record

Aerospace

February 1946: the last of the piston-engined bombers