Communications and Computing
Personal computers & information networks
Inventors barely out of school start a global computer revolution.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) is often referred to as the world's first computer programmer.
Typewriters
The invention of the typewriter had little initial impact on those who only trusted their pens. Yet as acceptance grew, so the machine became a stimulus for changes in the workplace, and an icon of a time before the personal computer.
Railway posters
The period between the formation of the "big four" railway companies in 1923 and nationalisation in 1947 was a golden age of graphic design. This exhiblet celebrates the art of the Southern Railway's publicity department.
Dumbing down science
Take one part science, dilute with two parts hype, distil off the jargon and reduce to easily-digestible chunks. Is popular science part of the anti-intellectualism trend known as ‘dumbing down’?