ROBERT LOMAS gained a first class honours degree in electronics before being awarded a PhD for his research into solid-state physics. He later worked on electronic weapons systems and emergency services command and control systems. He has established himself as one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of science and lectures on Information Systems at Bradford University School of Management, one of the UK’s leading business schools, where he also runs the university’s highly popular website of Masonic source material (www.bradford.ac.uk/webofhiram/).He is a frequent speaker on the Masonic lecture circuit in West Yorkshire anda regular supporter of the Orkney International Science Festival. He has written a number of bestselling books: Turning the Hiram Key, The Invisible College, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science and The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century; and co-authored The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah, Uriel’s Machine and The Book of Hiram.