Movie star hedy lamarr patents the forerunner of wi-fi

Peter Gallivan, author of The Hidden Heroes of Science, shines a spotlight on a star inventor.

The story of four women who worked in wartime American intelligence

SYLVIA Havilland did not know what would be in her grandmother’s will, but she had a good guess. Granny Havilland had been dead six months, but only now were her lawyers able to summon a small family

Flight’s glamorous beginnings

Some of today’s technology goes back much further than you’d imagine

This fantastic plan, which led the then Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS), Air Vice-Marshal Arthur T Harris, to remark ‘the story, that appears too fantastic for words, might have a fortunate outco