Apr 9, 2014 · The first computer The Difference Engine was the first automatic, mechanical calculator designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage, who proposed its construction in 1822 to the …

Oct 13, 2015 · That the world’s first computer programmer was a Victorian woman is remarkable in itself, but that she was the daughter of one of literature’s most well-known poets adds such colour to the …

5th April 2019 By Jonathan Gordon Who Was Ada Lovelace? Both a pioneer of the Computer Age and the daughter of Lord Byron, the world’s first computer programmer was a complex character …

3rd April 2014 By Jackie Snowden How the V-2 rocket worked The V-2, short for Vergeltungswaffe-2 and also known as the A-4, was the world’s first ballistic missile and was created by the Nazi military …

Apr 26, 2014 · The machine first featured moveable wooden letters carved by hand, but the plucky inventor later developed an alloy from lead, tin and antimony that could be moulded precisely and …

Aug 2, 2013 · An ingenious ancient method of transferring water from one plane to another

Feb 26, 2015 · The Channel has so often saved Britain in the face of overwhelming odds but just how many times has this little stretch of water saved our bacon? Read on… 1216: Louis VIII of France …

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Oct 9, 2013 · Boiling Typically used to punish poisoners, the condemned were slowly lowered into a huge cauldron of boiling water and tied to a weighted pole so they couldn’t escape. They would than …

Jul 25, 2013 · A monastery is a building inhabited by a community of men or women, devoted to the service of God and bound by a three-fold vow of poverty, chastity and obedience to a superior, and …