Precise facts and frictional characters
Principles of Precision Engineering - Engineering Tribology
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Slaves to the labour saving idea
The Machine in America - Futile Progress - The End of the Future
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The art of noise reduction
Information and Measurement
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The changing face of London
Fritz London
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The man behind the box
Zworykin, Pioneer of Television
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Traversing a thicket of signs
An Introduction to the Theories of Popular Culture
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Vision visionary
Dialogues on Perception
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Speaking French is now 'non issue'
A narrow non-vote against Quebec separatism means that plans for French-language fluency to become a university entrance requirement are likely to be further postponed. This week's referendum, where...
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Unions rally behind whistleblowing policy
University and college lecturers' unions have called for sweeping changes in the governance of institutions in evidence presented to the Nolan Committee this week. All universities should be governed...
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Family of man dividedover in-laws
Did modern humansevolve from Neanderthals or wipe them out? Olga Wojtas sifts the latest archaeological evidence For almost the whole of this century, there has been a heated scientific debate about...
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Prisoners of gender
Women hold only 5 per cent of professorships in the UK. Helena Kennedy examines the different forms of male prejudice which have caused this marginalisation. In the 1860s Sophia Jex-Blake, determined...
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Down and out in Kentish obscurity
The crumbling house where Darwin lived and wrote On the Origin of Species could be rescued from decay by a Pounds 2.4 million grant from the National Lottery, Aisling Irwin reports Charles Darwin may...
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The suits tailor a parochial debate
Late last month, 250 of higher education's Great and the Good met in the august surroundings of the Royal Society to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Society for Research into Higher Education....
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Out of Soares's shadow
One commentator described the Portuguese Socialist Party's victory in last month's parliamentary election as a "new April 25", a reference to the country's 1974 revolution which sprang from an...