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This podcast explores the digital trail that users of modern technology accumulate - via the use of apps, mobile phone calls, Google searches etc. - and its implications for privacy, data protection and big...
This resource is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the way things work around us. Professor Stephen Ressler investigates, among other topics, power plants, dams, aqueducts, railroads, communication...
Britain emerged from the Second World War in financial crisis, but one technological innovation provided hope for the future: a world-leading jet aviation industry. During the Cold War, the jet engine became...
This series takes twelve inventions and explores how they have changed the way people live. They explain how these inventions came about, from sparks of genius to steady incremental improvements, and...
In 1937, the science fiction writer H. G. Wells imagined a "World Brain" containing all of the world’s knowledge, accessible to all people, that would be "so compact in its material form and so gigantic in...
Series of three programmes which xamines three extraordinary engineering projects that are all very different but have two things in common: incredibly complex technology; people with highly specialised...
As Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner makes its inaugural flight, Rolls-Royce engineers celebrate the performance of its revolutionary Trent 1000 jet engines. They’re the latest in a family of sophisticated...
Behind-the-scenes look at Philip Trevelyan’s film about the eccentric Page family who live together in a ramshackle house in the Sussex countryside, without gas, electricity or running water. The director...
In a little over ten years, Google has transformed itself from a search engine, into a powerful advertising machine and is now moving into the world of cloud computing. Using incredibly powerful computer...
How can we be sure our air is safe to breathe? This 5-video album introduces the principles of air quality management and looks at how we analyse pollution control problems. Individual segments review the...
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