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Early clocks had variable hours, but even in the golden age of Brit
A clock that first struck the hour as ...
What time is it? It’s later than you think. Tempus fugit. Or, as the sundial inscription so accurately but perhaps more optimistically explains: “I only count the sunny hours.” You know full well that
Thousands of workers stepping off their morning train has become an enduring image of the railway. But the custom of commuting has constantly evolved, as CHRISTIAN WOLMAR reports
On 1 September 1939, Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers found himself in Berlin to take part in a European conference about telephone systems. Germany invaded Poland the same day. Flowers and a fellow
Not only has Earth been around for billions of years, it’s been keeping a log of its journey across time
It was at 7.15pm on Thursday 22 September 1955 that the greatest commercial television event appeared on screens in the London area. As screens flickered the first images, most of the 200,000 viewers
