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Between 1830 and 1930 Chicago was laid out and became the second largest city in the USA and a centre of world trade. The complexity of its infrastructure grew as the city was developed using innovative...
Uses famous sites such as the ancient port of Ostia, the Baths of Caracalla and the Pantheon to examine how Imperial Rome was constructed, what materials were used, how it was defended, how it was supplied...
Surveys the technological change in Paris under a succession of different regimes. Begins by looking at the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte and his inspirations for, and achievements in, the French...
CD-ROM-based resource looking at the life and legacy of John Logie Baird, producer of the world’s first television system. Uses technical drawings, diagrams, audio and video including interviews with Logie...
Traces the history of robotics development from early mechanical toys built by the ancient Chinese to the wide array of industrial robots used in manufacturing today. Considers how perceptions of robots...
A history of some of the main issues in computer software: Collossus, perhaps the first electronic computer; recollections of the pioneer programmers or coders - the women who worked on ENIAC, the first...
An exploration the ‘Codex Leicester’, Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, which allows the user to read the mirror writing in English or Italian; tour artworks and documents, including all Leonardo’s known...
The history of windmills in England from the wooden post mill and the timber smock mill to the stone tower mill, showing windmills in the Midlands, East Anglia and southern England. With wind power gathering...
The ‘Encyclopédie’ is probably one of the greatest single enterprises of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, it was published in France between 1751 and 1772. Giles...
A video of a lecture given by Professor R Hanbury Brown at the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London on 22 February 1993 to commemmorate the centenary of the birth of Sir Robert Watson-Watt...
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