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Dr Graham Easton presents the story of the stethoscope. Invented by a Frenchman named Lannaec in the early 19th century, the original design has barely altered. But digital technology is set to change all...
Peter Day explores the implications of some of the principles that underlie new technology, which are beginning to have a profound effect on our daily lives. Big ideas - such as the Theory of Relativity -...
The deployment phase for GALILEO, the European programme of civil radio-navigation by satellite will begin in 2006. GALILEO is compatible and interoperable with the American GPS but will furnish a more...
Audio recording of a lecture by Maxine Berg, Professor of History, Eighteenth Century Centre, University of Warwick which formed part of the ‘Inventors and Inventions: Patents, Protest and Power in the the...
A recording of the public lecture on the future of the world wide web given by it founder Tim Berners-Lee at the Royal Society on 22 September 2003. He discusses the potential of the Semantic Web which he...
A hard-hitting documentary on the dumping of toxic computer waste in China, aiming to open people’s eyes to the true horror of the high-tech revolution. A tale of how good intentions - to recycle old...
Film commissioned and Broadcast by Channel Four in 1991. The film- described by the Guardian in 1991 as ‘an outlandish essay in technophobia- seems remarkably perceptive as the relentless assault on the...
1 MATERIALS IN PERSPECTIVE(1981): Looks at metals, ceramics, glass, polymers and composites in terms of their classification and atomic structure. Asks why we need material science, or material scientists,...
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