How techniques and knowledge developed
From printing and observation to measurement and spaceflight, focus on tools, experimentation and collaboration.
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Comparing 1377 and the 1450s
Gutenberg and the work of movable type
Understand how composing type changed the production and circulation of books.
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Notebooks from around 1487–1505
Reading Leonardo’s notebooks
Follow observation, recording and design, distinguishing ideas from completed objects.
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Late eighteenth–early nineteenth centuries
Steam engines and working lives
Connect new power sources to workers and resource use.
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1800–1821 · Surveying and completing maps
How were the Inō maps measured and made?
Follow repeated measurements into mapmaking.
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1896–1911
How the Curies established new elements
Understand discoveries through measurement and material separation.
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July 1969
Apollo 11: reaching the Moon and returning
Connect flight plans, spacecraft and ground support.
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