Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Frank Nelson Doubleday Lecture, National Museum of History and Technology - "The Dissemination of Unpublished Information" (29 January 1974)
Date: 1973-1974Reference: JDW/2/8/1/79Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 59. 'Technology, Techniques, and Technicians at the NIMR c.1960 - c.2000'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2016Reference: GC/253/A/59Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
The Britannia Bridge : the generation and diffusion of technological knowledge / Nathan Rosenberg and Walter G. Vincenti.
Rosenberg, Nathan, 1927-2015.Date: [1978], ©1978- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - Smithsonian Institution June-August 1974
Date: 1974Reference: PP/EBC/B.108Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Archives and manuscripts
Transcripts
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2016Reference: GC/253/A/59/5Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars