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Telegraph Networks and Submarine Cables
Relay stations, undersea cables and the operational challenge of building a global telegraph system.
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Technological Innovations from 1800 to Present
A long-range technology history focused on enabling principles, manufacturing constraints and system adoption.
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Bessemer Process and Cheap Steel Production
Converter technology, chemistry control and the industrial demand conditions behind steel expansion.
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Transistor from Bell Labs to Consumer Electronics
From laboratory demonstration to mass manufacturing and the miniaturisation of electronics.
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Packet Switching and Early Data Networks
Why dividing messages into routable packets changed the design logic of networked communication.
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MRI Systems and Clinical Imaging
How nuclear magnetic resonance became a medical imaging platform through engineering integration.