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British Airways | British Airways’ new app rollout is underway, offering a simple, smart and intuitive digital experience
14 Jul 2026
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British Airways | British Airways reopens Newcastle contact centre with £17 million investment
02 Jul 2026
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British Airways | British Airways and Porter Airlines announce new codeshare agreement
02 Jul 2026
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British Airways | British Airways ARC opens its doors at Olympia, marking London’s newest live entertainment venue in over a decade
19 Jun 2026
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British Airways | British Airways June Sale launches - with savings on flights and holidays from city breaks to beach escapes
04 Jun 2026
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British Airways | Northern Lights or Beach Delights: British Airways launches Avios-Only flights to Reykjavík and Tenerife for October half-term
03 Jun 2026
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British Airways | British Airways American Express® Cardmembers can now use their Companion Voucher on bookings with British Airways Holidays
20 May 2026
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British Airways | City lights and coastal charm: British Airways launches St. Louis and Guernsey
20 Apr 2026
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
