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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
![Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a dial [?]. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0024397EL/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics: with The Use of the Globes, The Art of Dialing, and The Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses. By James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics. With The use of the Globes, The Art of Dialing, and The Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses. By James Ferguson, F. R. S.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: 1799- Books
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Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics. With the use of the globes, The Art of Dialing, And The Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses. By James Ferguson, F.R.S.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The use of the globes: or, the general doctrine of the sphere: Explaining and Demonstrating the most natural Propositions relating to Astronomy, Geography, and Dialing. To which is added, a synopsis of the doctrine of eclipses. The whole illustrated with a great Number of Copper-Plates, explanatory of each Proposition, in a Manner intirely new. By Thomas Wright, Of the City of Durham.
Wright, Thomas, 1711-1786.Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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Multum in parvo: or, tables exactly calculated for the latitude of London. Teaching any person, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dial on any vertical or upright plane, however Situated in respect of Declination: Only with the help of a pair of Compasses and a Line of Chords; and without any Arithmetical Calculation. The like never before Published. To which is added a table; shewing the distance o each hour-line from the meridian: Upon all Horizontal Dials, Calculated to every Degree of Latitude. Likewise, Spot, Concave, Convex, Instrumental Reflex, Cylindrical Dialing. Also, How to Adorn the said Dials, with all Useful Furniture. Relating to the Course of the Sun. By John Good.
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1706