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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...
Reflects on the momentous voyages of Portuguese navigators in the 15th century. Uses a full-scale replica of a caravel of the period to re-create the conditions of those voyages and shows how sailors used...
Tim Hunkin humorously explains the workings of familiar machines. His technique is to present the scientific principles and show how the machines evolved by using demonstrations and animated cartoon...
Series tracing the development of the computer.
Traces the impact of science and technology on childbirth and contraception, and highlights how women’s choices and chances had altered by 1950. Women from Richmond, North Yorkshire, talk about their...
Traces the development of domestic electricity in Britain and the subsequent changes this brought about for women in the home. Uses archive film from the Electricity Development Association and the...
1870-1950 is a period characterised by a succession of innovations with remarkable effects in everyday life from new sources of power, new modes of transport, new clinical techniques to a great leisure...
A non-technical introducction to the world of information technology, following the history of computing from the early, massive calculating machines such as the Manchester Mark I and the Lyons Electronic...
A pot-pourri Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) people, places, TRE/RAF radar training films and World War 2 events, including a visit to TRE in Malvern on 19 July 1944 by King George VI and...
Few technological developments so captured the popular imagination during the first half of the 20th century as did motor vehicles. Using archive film from Germany and the United States the film shows how in...
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