Stories
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
- 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 spectacle maker
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
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You, a thousand years ago
Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.
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The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.
Brocas, Charles, 1774-1835.Date: 1822Reference: 17481i- Books
The life of Sir Humphry Davy : Bart., LL. D., late president of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c. / by John Ayrton Paris.
Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856.Date: 1831- Books
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The life of Sir Humphry Davy : Bart., LL. D., late president of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c. / by John Ayrton Paris.
Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856.Date: 1831- Books
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Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série d'expériences. Faites en présence des commissaires de l'Institut National de France, et en divers amphithéâtres anatomiques de Londres par Jean Aldini / [Giovanni Aldini].
Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834.Date: An XII.-1804- Books
Morning, noon, & night = Matin, midi & soir / Motoko Tachikawa.
Tachikawa, MotokoDate: 2018