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When civilisation made people sick

Sickness from nervous exhaustion is not a new thing. Over a hundred years ago, neurasthenia afflicted society’s ‘brain-workers’.

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Finding a cure for homesickness

While technology can mitigate some aspects of homesickness, other components of home are harder to replicate. Find out how 21st-century studies are helping homesickness sufferers find silver linings in their new situation.

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Titans in the landscape

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When the sun goes down

Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.

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  • Telegraph stations in Britain and Europe. Engraving (?).
  • Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.
  • Components of the electromechanical telegraph network. Process print.
  • Simla, India: roads winding down from the telegraph office. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • A line of shops beside a dusty street, with telegraph poles overhead, in Korea.
  • Telegraphy: four different inventors' telegraph machines [on exhibition in Paris?]. Wood engraving, (1889?) by Poyet.
  • Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
  • Electrical appliances exhibited at the 1882 Electrical Exhibition, including chandeliers and the first telegraph instrument. Wood engraving, 1882.
  • Telegram sent by G. Marconi in Wimereux to Édouard Branly in Paris, acknowledging Branly's work in developing the electric telegraph across the Channel. Photograph, ca. 1899.
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