Science & Technology
A short, esoteric history of eye protection down the ages
Nothing captures the fickle nature of fashion and cultural trends better than this humble accessory. Sunglasses came to us en masse only because of a capricious combination of technology, market opportunism and coiffure. Here's how it went down. Hollywood movie stars—seeking to avoid the harsh Southern Californian ...
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Victorian Folly: The Tunnel Under the Channel
The Victorians were not the first to propose tunnelling under the English Channel. The first serious proposal for a Channel Tunnel came from a Frenchman: a mining engineer called Albert Mathieu. In 1802 Mathieu displayed plans for an eighteen-mile-long tunnel, illuminated by oil lamps and ventilated by chimneys ...
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