The United Kingdom has been home to some of the most amazing inventions in history. From life-changing gadgets to fun treats, ...

Making the far near The invention that set the stage ... Standing on shoulders Both types of telescopes—Galileo's refractor and Newton's reflector—underwent improvements in the coming centuries.

When the Royal Society heard about Newton’s telescope they were impressed ... Newton and Leibniz had quarrelled over who invented calculus. Now Newton saw a way to triumph over his intellectual ...

The investigation of light and optical properties stretches back centuries, at least to the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians. In fact, even artificial lenses date back to as early as ...