Liberal visions and boring machines – The early history of the Channel Tunnel [the railway tunnel connecting the UK to France]
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Anna Atkins' photographs of British algae
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Illustrations of madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
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The city that fell off a cliff
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Émile-Antoine Bayard's illustrations for 'Around the Moon' by Jules Verne (1870)
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English translation of Finland's epic poem, The Kalevala (1898)
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Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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"Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis
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The dreams of an inventor in 1420
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Maps showing California as an island
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100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
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Voltaire and the Buddha: How the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West
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