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The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power

A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village

11 Jun 11:26 | 37

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The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different

Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits

05 May 10:03 | 37

Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13

14 Apr 03:08 | 22

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Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift

Give a Cheshire cheers to a true waterway wonder

04 Mar 10:00 | 75

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German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry

El Reg visits Westcott and the Isle of Wight in search of more of Britain's forgotten rocket centres

27 Jan 09:15 | 42

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Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

Memories of missiles on the moors of Cumbria

27 Nov 10:07 | 98

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Orford Ness: Military secrets and unique wildlife on the remote Suffolk coast

Shingle spit and you'll miss this science and history on t' beach gem

24 Sep 09:16 | 43

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The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury

19 Sep 08:16 | 61

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What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery

18 Mar 09:05 | 99

Are you aware of the gravity of the situation on Mars? Why yes, say boffins: We rejigged Curiosity to measure it

Shock after accelerometers hacked, in the old-school sense, and rock density probed

01 Feb 06:03 | 22

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Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon

27 Sep 09:15 | 27

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Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl

The North East's Zeppelin warning system is largely forgotten

31 May 08:08 | 68

Presto chango, crypto buyo: You're travelling like El Reg's gang of nerds

Fancy micropaying for the great Geek's Guide eBook?

22 May 12:03 | 78

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Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

Yet Filton display shows it's among the world's best-loved aircraft

01 May 08:50 | 241

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Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you

Myth, legend and the lucky escape of Bennerley

21 Mar 09:18 | 79

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Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web

15 Feb 09:05 | 45

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Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland

What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank

12 Jan 09:38 | 39

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Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

A star performer producing fission-free plasma power

25 Sep 08:01 | 141

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Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

A hidden British engineering gem: The Hovercraft Museum

15 Sep 22:58 | 100

Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens

Plus: We take a sneak peek at London's other tube network, Mail Rail

28 Jul 12:00 | 20

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Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10

Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not...

The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good

Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations

IBM pulls up the ladder behind some supercomputer customers

As in it's stopped selling the ladders needed to clamber up and do maintenance. Thankfully the internet can help

We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?

If we trust it, crooks will too – meaning Plod can get their kiloscrote nab

Do you come from a land Down Under? Where diesel's low and techies blunder

UPS = Uninterruptable Pager Spying

Want to keep working in shorts and flipflops way after this is all over? It could be time to rethink your career moves

Pandemic has opened a can of worms for our work goals with what comes next

Google opens Workspace to anyone with a Google account, but you'll need to cough up for the good stuff

Chocolate Factory presses home its advantage in web-based collaboration

Bork!Bork!Bork!

If HAL did digital signage. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that...

My God! It's full of Bork!

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Reg reader turns Geek's Guides to Britain into Geek's Map of Britain

Too lazy to plug GPS co-ords into satnav? Fear not, gypsythief has saved you

21 Jul 09:27 | 36

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Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway

Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet

04 Jul 08:01 | 110

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Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway

Feats of engineering, projections busted - the Caledonian Canal

03 Apr 09:02 | 52

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Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze

Uber cars, Amazon drones? Pah! Driverless deliveries from a different age

06 Dec 12:04 | 68

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Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

From Acorns to bedrooms

26 Sep 09:59 | 54

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Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct

Barton Aqueduct – where heavy metal shifts H₂O

28 Jul 13:57 | 75

Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery

Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat

16 May 09:07 | 185

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The field at the centre of the universe: Cambridge's outdoor pulsar pusher

Radio astronomy, sheds and high-explosive ordnance

12 Feb 14:15 | 34

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Come on kids, let's go play in the abandoned nuclear power station

After oil, before shale: the future that never was

26 Jan 15:04 | 141

Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman

Head of Hut Six 'a disastrous example to others' – GCHQ

27 Sep 11:00 | 78

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Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret

The 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer

18 Sep 14:51 | 25

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Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology

Biomass and the pit

21 Aug 12:50 | 41

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Get thee behind me, Satanic mills! Robert Owen's Scottish legacy

Inside the works of Scotland's industrial revolutionary

11 Aug 09:03 | 30

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The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act

Waves against the machine

14 Jul 11:31 | 87

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Planet killer: Ex-army officer's Welsh space-rock mission

Tunguska, Chelyabinsk... Powys

06 Jul 13:37 | 22

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Taming the Thames – The place that plugged London's Great Stink

How Joseph Bazalgette flushed the capital into the modern age

30 May 11:00 | 74

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