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.
- 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
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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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
Catalogue
- Books
Catalogue of books and papers relating to the history of electricity in the library of the Institute for Theoretical Electricity, Chalmers University of Technology / edited by Stig Ekelöf.
Date: 1964-1966- 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
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
Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Books
History of Indian science, technology and culture : AD 1000 - 1800 / edited by A. Rahman ; general editor and project director, D.P. Chattopadhyaya.
Date: 1999