THE West Midlands has been hailed as a scientific powerhouse packed with inventions and innovations on a new online map. The jet engine and Brylcreem are among ten local scientific and engineering ...

Journeys of Invention let you study, rotate and even operate some of the most revolutionary scientific inventions Credit: Photo: Science Museum / Touch Press The Science museum has launched an iPad ...

The Genius of Invention takes a look at significant historical inventions that have revolutionised our daily lives. Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik examine the inventions that led to ...

The public has voted the X-ray machine as the best invention, ahead of the Apollo 10 space capsule and Stephenson's Rocket. Out of nearly 50,000 votes cast, one in five people named it for having made ...

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In this bracing book, Terence Kealey, a science professor, tells us that necessity is the mother of invention. In other words, says this dedicated free-marketeer, there's not much point in investing ...

The British public has voted the X-ray machine as the best invention, over the Apollo 10 space capsule and Stephenson's Rocket. In a poll organised by the Science Museum in London, members of the ...