Isaac Newton investigating light

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Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

Vintage Astro lava lamp from the 1960s

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John Linnell's 1816 portrait of Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick. His high-pressure steam engine "was the invention that unleashed power on this planet," says Michael Mosley. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Richard Buckminster standing next to his draft of a house of the 21st century. (Ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea

A monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in Poland.

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Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

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The wonder of the west

A historical image from the iron and steel industry in Teeside

Industrial revolutiongallery175 years of iron and steel

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Boffinology: The Real Stories Behind Our Greatest Scientific Discoveries

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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

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Race for the South Pole: the Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen

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Galileo

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Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox

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God’s Philosophers

An illustration of the compound microscope used by British inventor and microbiologist Robert Hooke

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Boyle: Between God and Science

Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming (later head of the British Secret Service), Professor Redwood and Bernard Redwood at the Motor Yacht Club Reliability Trials on Southampton Water, 1907. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Transport minister Ernest Marples on a road bridge near the London end of the newly opened M1 motorway, 2 November 1959. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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An engraving showing chimneys emitting smoke during the Industrial Revolution

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The members of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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