Stories
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A history of art in hospitals
Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
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Bringing Braille back to the modern world
For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.
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The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion (1861-65) / prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army.
Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883.Date: 1875-1879- Books
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The tragical history of the babes in the wood, whose father, a rich gentleman in Norfolk, when dying, committed to the guardianship of his own brother. - But this cruel and unnatural Wretch, in order to possess himself of their Fortunes, caused the Children to be destroyed soon after their Father's Death. - He is punished for his Perfidy, in the most exemplary Manner, by Divine Justice, as set forth in the Sequel.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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The callico printers' assistant; from the first operation of designing patterns, to the delivery of work for sale: including, Among various other matters of more general Import. thoughts on genius and invention. Suggestions for an improved mode of printing. - --An Essay (applicable to Manufacturers in general) on the attention due from Masters and Men to each other. And a concise history of callico printing to the present time; Comprizing many Particulars both immediately respecting it, and that has affinity with it, in remote Points of view.
O'Brien, Charles, callico printer.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]-92- Books
Sleepless souls : suicide in early modern England / Michael MacDonald, Terence R. Murphy.
MacDonald, Michael, 1945-Date: 1990- Books
A history of the art of printing : from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms. books before the invention of printing / by H. Noel Humphreys ; with one hundred illustrations produced in photo-lithography by Day & Son, Limited, under the direction of the author.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: 1867