The Telegraph

The role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today’s software programmer/analyst

One hundred years on, the First World War has not lost its power to clutch at the heart. But how much do we really know about the war that would shape the 20th Century? And, all the more poignantly, how much did people know at the time?

The profusion of websites and applications that characterise the modern Internet may seem a far cry from the primitive telegraph system of the late 1830s. There is, however, a direct link. The invention of the electric telegraph paved the way for telephone networks which, in turn, laid the foundations for today's Internet. In less than 170 years, simple arrangements of magnets, switches and cables evolved to become the largest and most complex machine in the world.

A thematic look at the world of food through The Telegraph. Beginning with the great opening of the Savoy in 1889 and its kitchen under head chef Escoffier, ringing in the new era of the celebrity chef.