Ferrari
The Greatest Comeback
27 Mar 2025
Fifty years ago Niki Lauda drove the 312 T to Ferrari’s first Formula 1 title in 11 years – and kickstarted one of its most successful eras of all
Best of the Best
25 Mar 2025
The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award brings together nine select concours winners from the previous 12 months. This year it was won by a Ferrari 250 LM restored by Ferrari Classiche.
A Ferrari on the wrist
21 Mar 2025
The RM 43-01 timepiece, a collaboration between Richard Mille and Ferrari, pushes the limits of watch performance and design
Mythbusters: The Turbo Era
19 Mar 2025
Ferrari mastered forced induction to win in Formula 1 and develop world-beating road cars, from the GTO of 1984 to today’s F80
Stopping the city that never sleeps
04 Mar 2025
The Ferrari F80 makes its American debut in New York
MARANELLO MILESTONES ON DISPLAY
27 Feb 2025
A stunning new exhibition at the Museo Enzo Ferrari in Modena shows how Ferrari Supercars have for decades been signposting the brand’s technological future
Pushing The Boundaries
18 Feb 2025
Remembering Enzo Ferrari's pursuit of progress, 127 years since his birth
Blood brothers
13 Feb 2025
How F1 and Le Mans engine technology inspires Ferrari's limited-series supercars
Featured
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?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
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.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
