Environment
The impact of steam
Steam power has had a big impact on the working lives of many thousands of people. Find out about how the steam enginge change people's lives.
Heavy Weather
Destruction and fatalities due to the elements have occurred throughout our history. Find out how storms have caused us so many problems and what instruments have been invented to try to predict such heavy weather.
Predicting the weather
Michael Fish’s ‘it’s not a hurricane’ forecast of 1987 has become legendary, but duff weather forecasts are no joke, costing the British economy billions of pounds a year. Why is it so hard to predict the weather more than a day or two ahead?