In order to put these skills to use to find and decipher the clues that lead to his uncanny deductions, Holmes relied on the optical technology of the time: the magnifying glass and microscope.

Search Icon: Does Sherlock Holmes have something to do with it? Wherever we go in the digital world, if we need to find something, we automatically look for this common symbol – the magnifying glass.

“Considering these various journals with their disconnected stories it had struck me that a single character running through ... out his magnifying glass in A Study in Scarlet, Holmes became ...

LONDON -- Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous Londoners of all time. Many tourists still see the bustling city through his eyes, and seek out his address, 221B Baker Street. It seems a ...

Rigorous detective work and an affinity for the unique Sherlockian atmosphere do everything but put a deerstalker on your head and a magnifying glass ... Holmes and Watson scrounge through clues ...

Perhaps not as elegant as a well-crafted magnifying glass, but nonetheless ... much more than send texts. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson chase a taxi through London stills from the BBC series ...