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History turns on a billion tiny moments. Thanks to luck or errors of judgment, a man like John Wilkes Booth can walk into Lincoln’s theater box and change

Who laid the groundwork for modern technology? Modern inventions like transistors, ICs and wireless communications didn’t come out of thin air; thousands of brilliant scientists and inventors had to discover every aspect of the electronic technology that made them possible over the last few hundred years. by Dr David Maddison

The fax machine will join a heap of other devices in the great electronic graveyard, including the floppy disk, the pager and the VHS cassette.

It was not until the 1960s, when American firm Xerox introduced the first modern fax machines for office use, that the devices were catapulted into the mainstream. Above: Xerox's LDX in 1964.

If you're a regular reader you'll have seen the recent article on those freaky, terrifying versions of the azhdarchid pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus from the 1970s and 80s. We looked at Guy Michel's version from 1979 and Richard Orr's spectacularly colourful rendition from 1984.