In the first week of August 1995, Chicago recorded more than 700 deaths during a prolonged heatwave. Most victims were elderly, isolated,...

Before London had a proper sewer system, the city was breathing through its throat. The Thames, once a trading artery, had become an open...

Moving people between levels is one of civilisation’s oldest design challenges. The earliest lifts or hoists date back to the 3rd century...

On the night of 31 January 1953, a severe European windstorm drove a surge of seawater through the North Sea. What followed was one of...

In the early hours of a Saturday morning in downtown Atlanta, a fire ignited in Room 326 of the Winecoff Hotel. Within minutes, it tore...

In the late 1880s, Nikola Tesla, born in the village of Smiljan, now part of Croatia revolutionised electrical engineering with his...