The tourbillon is among the most beguiling instruments in watchmaking, finds Tom Chamberlin

These devices made recorded music accessible, portable and collectable

Technology has transformed sailing, but was the past better or worse? Andy Du Port shares his views

We’ve been using matches for 200 years–but, as Rob Crossan discovers, the story of how they came to be is far more colourful (and hair-raising) than we might imagine

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

WHEN A TRADITIONAL COOKING STOVE LEFT HER toddler with life-threatening burns, Charlot Magayi turned grief into resolve. From Nairobi’s Mukuru slum, she set out to reinvent the stove, and in doing so