Is it a bridge? Is it a ferry? No, it's the Newport Transporter
Geek's Guide to Britain Industrial elegance on the Usk
Geek's Guide01 Oct 2021 | 64
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Geek's Guide to Britain No, not the title of an undiscovered Douglas Adams book, it's medical history in the UK
Geek's Guide10 Sep 2021 | 29
Western Approaches Museum: WRENs, wargames, and victory in the Atlantic
Geek's Guide To Britain Anonymous Liverpudlian building was once home to the strategists who beat Germany's U-boats
Geek's Guide12 Jul 2021 | 57
The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power
Geek's Guide To Britain A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village
Geek's Guide11 Jun 2021 | 40
The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different
Geek's Guide to Britain Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits
Geek's Guide05 May 2021 | 37
Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day
Part two It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13
Geek's Guide14 Apr 2020 | 22
Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift
Geek's Guide To Britain Give a Cheshire cheers to a true waterway wonder
Geek's Guide04 Mar 2020 | 75
German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry
Geek's Guide to Britain El Reg visits Westcott and the Isle of Wight in search of more of Britain's forgotten rocket centres
Geek's Guide27 Jan 2020 | 42
Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment
Geek's Guide to Britain Memories of missiles on the moors of Cumbria
Geek's Guide27 Nov 2019 | 98
Orford Ness: Military secrets and unique wildlife on the remote Suffolk coast
Geek's Guide to Britain Shingle spit and you'll miss this science and history on t' beach gem
Geek's Guide24 Sep 2019 | 43
The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly
Geek's Guide to Britain Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury
Geek's Guide19 Sep 2019 | 61
What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters
Geek's Guide to Britain Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery
Geek's Guide18 Mar 2019 | 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
Geek's Guide01 Feb 2019 | 22
Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England
Geek's Guide to Britain The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon
Geek's Guide27 Sep 2018 | 27
Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl
Geek's Guide to Britain The North East's Zeppelin warning system is largely forgotten
Geek's Guide31 May 2018 | 69
Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain
Geek's Guide to Britain Yet Filton display shows it's among the world's best-loved aircraft
Geek's Guide01 May 2018 | 245
Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you
Geek's Guide to Britain Myth, legend and the lucky escape of Bennerley
Geek's Guide21 Mar 2018 | 79
Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs
Geek's Guide to Britain Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web
Geek's Guide15 Feb 2018 | 45
Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland
Geek's Guide to Britain What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank
Geek's Guide12 Jan 2018 | 39
Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham
Geek's Guide to Britain A star performer producing fission-free plasma power
Geek's Guide25 Sep 2017 | 143
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Geeks' Guide to Britain A hidden British engineering gem: The Hovercraft Museum
Geek's Guide15 Sep 2017 | 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
Geek's Guide28 Jul 2017 | 20
Reg reader turns Geek's Guides to Britain into Geek's Map of Britain
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Geek's Guide21 Jul 2017 | 36
Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway
Geek's Guide to Britain Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet
Geek's Guide04 Jul 2017 | 110
Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway
GEEK'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN Feats of engineering, projections busted - the Caledonian Canal
Geek's Guide03 Apr 2017 | 52
Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze
Geek's Guide to Britain Uber cars, Amazon drones? Pah! Driverless deliveries from a different age
Geek's Guide06 Dec 2016 | 68
Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground
Geek's Guide to Britain From Acorns to bedrooms
Geek's Guide26 Sep 2016 | 54
Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct
Geek's Guide to Britain Barton Aqueduct – where heavy metal shifts H2O
Geek's Guide28 Jul 2016 | 75
Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery
Geek's Guide to Britain Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat
Geek's Guide16 May 2016 | 185
The field at the centre of the universe: Cambridge's outdoor pulsar pusher
Geek's Guide to Britain Radio astronomy, sheds and high-explosive ordnance
Geek's Guide12 Feb 2016 | 34
Come on kids, let's go play in the abandoned nuclear power station
Geek's Guide to Britain After oil, before shale: the future that never was
Geek's Guide26 Jan 2016 | 141
Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman
Head of Hut Six 'a disastrous example to others' – GCHQ
Geek's Guide27 Sep 2015 | 78
Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret
Geek's Guide to Britain The 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer
Geek's Guide18 Sep 2015 | 25
Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology
Geek's Guide to Britain Biomass and the pit
Geek's Guide21 Aug 2015 | 41
Get thee behind me, Satanic mills! Robert Owen's Scottish legacy
Geek's Guide to Britain Inside the works of Scotland's industrial revolutionary
Geek's Guide11 Aug 2015 | 30
The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act
Geek's Guide to Britain Waves against the machine
Geek's Guide14 Jul 2015 | 87
Planet killer: Ex-army officer's Welsh space-rock mission
Geek's Guide to Britain Tunguska, Chelyabinsk... Powys
Geek's Guide06 Jul 2015 | 22
Taming the Thames – The place that plugged London's Great Stink
Geek's Guide to Britain How Joseph Bazalgette flushed the capital into the modern age
Geek's Guide30 May 2015 | 74
Bridge, ship 'n' tunnel – the Brunels' hidden Thames trip
Geek's Guide to Britain Monument to a trio who left their mark on Blighty
Geek's Guide04 May 2015 | 50
Saturn's rings, radio waves ... poetry? At home with Scotland's Mr Physics
Geek's Guide to Britain James Clerk Maxwell's house
Geek's Guide06 Apr 2015 | 24
Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer
Geek's Guide to Britain A trip to the Lizard King's monument
Geek's Guide23 Feb 2015 | 81
Suffering satellites! Goonhilly's ARTHUR REBORN for SPAAAACE
Geek's Guide to Britain BT's sat comms site repurposed
Geek's Guide25 Nov 2014 | 48
Kingston's aviation empire: From industry firsts to Airfix heroes
Geek's Guide to Britain Sir Thomas Sopwith's suburban Surrey hub
Geek's Guide24 Oct 2014 | 58
Measure for measure: We visit the most applied-physicist-rich building in the UK
Geek's Guide to Britain Like an ass whose back with kilograms of Concorde bows...
Geek's Guide12 Jun 2014 | 42
IBM Hursley Park: Where Big Blue buries the past, polishes family jewels
Geek's Guide to Britain How the internet of things has deep roots in the English countryside
Geek's Guide10 Apr 2014 | 46
Mosquitoes, Comets and Vampires: The de Havilland Museum
Geek's Guide to Britain When the British aerospace industry was more than just British Aerospace
Geek's Guide20 Dec 2013 | 114
How the UK's national memory lives in a ROBOT in Kew
Geek's Guide to Britain El Reg visits the National Archives
Geek's Guide11 Dec 2013 | 52
TAT-1: Call the cable guy, all I see is a beautiful beach
Geek's Guide to Britain 57 years on, Reg man visits scene of first transatlantic voice call
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Bletchley rebooted: The crypto factory time remembered
Geek's Guide to Britain High commands and dirty words in German – the story retold
Geek's Guide20 Sep 2013 | 6
Meet the world's one-of-a-kind ENORMO barge-bowling bridge of Falkirk
Geek's Guide to Britain When is a wheel not a wheel? When it's a lift
Geek's Guide27 Aug 2013 | 40
Boffins, Tunnel Tigers and Scotland's world-first power mountain
Geek's Guide to Britain The hollowing heroes who reversed nature
Geek's Guide23 Jul 2013 | 74
Hanslope Park: Home of Britain’s ‘real-life Q division’
Geek's Guide to Britain The Buckinghamshire haunt of spooks, BOFHs and boffins
Geek's Guide05 Jul 2013 | 32
Love in an elevator.... testing mast: The National Lift Tower
Geek's Guide to Britain El Reg shows where you can go and get truly shafted
Geek's Guide04 Jul 2013 | 55
Rise of the machines, south of Milton Keynes
Geek's Guide to Britain Computers make a noise at TNMOC
Geek's Guide29 Jun 2013 | 38
INSIDE GCHQ: Welcome to Cheltenham's cottage industry
Geek's Guide to Britain 'If this nerve centre didn't exist, neither would I' says Reg man
Geek's Guide24 May 2013 | 70
The bunker at the end of the world - in Essex
Geek's Guide to Britain Open for 40 years, pointless for 39 of them...
Geek's Guide22 May 2013 | 123
BT Tower is just a relic? Wrong: It relays 18,000hrs of telly daily
Geek's Guide to Britain Reg goes inside and up Blighty's telecoms spire
Geek's Guide21 May 2013 | 89
Reg man bested in geek-to-geek combat - in World War 3 nerve centre
Geek's Guide to Britain Dom Connor and the cool Cold Warriors
Geek's Guide28 Mar 2013 | 31
Blighty's revolutionary Cold War teashop computer - and Nigella Lawson
Geek's Guide to Britain Nuclear missile with your sponge finger, sir?
Geek's Guide27 Mar 2013 | 44
Inside Adastral: BT's Belgium-sized broadband boffinry base
Geek's Guide to Britain Drive-by bragging rights
Geek's Guide26 Mar 2013 | 73
Reg man goes time travelling at iconic observatory
Geek's Guide to Britain Jodrell Bank: The visitors' centre at the start of the universe
Geek's Guide25 Mar 2013 | 49
Boffin road trip! The Reg presents Geek's Guide to Britain
Geek's Guide to Britain Brains that made Britain exposed, mapped and viewed
Geek's Guide21 Mar 2013 | 56
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