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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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The last glass-eye maker in Britain

Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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The sweet sound of synthetic speech

After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.

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  • C.A. Hayman, Artificial cheek, eye and palate.
  • Artificial eye made by Giovanni Battista Verle of Venice.
  • Artificial eye made by Gio. Battista Verle of Vernice
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • Lectures on operative surgery of the eye: or, an historical and critical inquiry into the methods recommended for the cure of the cataract, for the formation of an artificial pupil, &c. Containing a new method of operating for cataract by extraction / By G. J. Guthrie.
  • Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye : or, an historical and critical inquiry into the methods recommended for the cure of cataract, for the formation of an artificial pupil, &c. &c. &c. Containing a new method of operating for cataract by extraction. Being the substance of that part of the author's course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery which relates to the operations on that organ / By G. J. Guthrie.
  • Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye : or, an historical and critical inquiry into the methods recommended for the cure of cataract, for the formation of an artificial pupil, &c. &c. &c. Containing a new method of operating for cataract by extraction. Being the substance of that part of the author's course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery which relates to the operations on that organ / By G. J. Guthrie.
  • Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye : or, an historical and critical inquiry into the methods recommended for the cure of cataract, for the formation of an artificial pupil, &c. &c. &c. Containing a new method of operating for cataract by extraction. Being the substance of that part of the author's course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery which relates to the operations on that organ / By G. J. Guthrie.
  • Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye : or, an historical and critical inquiry into the methods recommended for the cure of cataract, for the formation of an artificial pupil, &c. &c. &c. Containing a new method of operating for cataract by extraction. Being the substance of that part of the author's course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery which relates to the operations on that organ / By G. J. Guthrie.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
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