These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

Key Points: Robert Hooke conducted experiments in the area of acoustics and discovered that sound could be transmitted over wire or string into an attached earpiece or mouthpiece. Hooke was an ...

Key Points: Claude Chappe d’Auteroche developed the first widely adopted system for transmitting messages overland, and the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age. Due to the ...

In his book excerpt we meet the comics legend in his childhood, as his explores his obsession with cartooning, and a new fixation begins to bloom.

The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to physics and other disciplines were significant too.

Since 1762 the skyline of Kew in West London has been dominated by a rather curious building: a gigantic Chinese Pagoda. The building soars 164ft (50 metres) into the west London sky and was the ...

1672: Robert Hooke creates the first acoustic telephone. Very much like the two-soup-can toys you made as a child, Hooke found that sound could be sent over a wire or string from a mouthpiece on ...

Survivors include two sons, Robert Hooke, of Ruxton, and Jeffrey “Jeff” Hooke, of Chevy Chase; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A son, Alex Hooke, died in 2023.

Often taken as a sign of Newton's great humility, this famed quote was almost certainly intended as an insult to Hooke, who was hunchbacked and may have suffered from a form of dwarfism. 2.