Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

As new models become ever more bloated and indistinguishable from one another in their visual appearance, is it any wonder that car designers are inclined to look over their shoulders at their marques

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GM’s EV1 invented the future, then left ► ...

→ When John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television set in 1926, a theatre impresario was so worried about the impact on the West End that he offered the scientist £1,000 to throw his de

A HUNDRED YEARS ago on 26 January 1926, in an attic room in London’s Soho (more famous for ladies of the night than technological breakthroughs), a Scottish engineer gave the first public display of p