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Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo This is a sectioned model of the reactor at Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale civil nuclear power station opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion...

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated

Photo The Science Museum has the only other full-scale Difference engine in the world; Babbage himself never actually made one). Here is the Difference engine, one of only two full-scale models in the world.

Tags: science museum, computer

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Technology at the heart of Terminal 5

Photo The sheer scale of the project from an IT perspective is clear with 180 IT supplier contracts, 2,103 PCs, 163 systems and 9,000 connected devices. Terminal 5 (T5) is the first new terminal to be built at Heathrow for more than twenty years - and...

Tags: integration, paul coby, british airways, baa

[17 Jul 2007]

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photo Milovantsev admitted Russia cannot compete with India and China on cost and scale but said: "If we position Russia against India and China, Russia loses its competitiveness. Red Square, the colourful St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin may be the...

Tags: luxoft, moscow, russia, offshore outsourcing

[15 Feb 2007]

Caption competition 10: I'll be your Bezzie mate

Photo Christian Sharp badly overestimates the scale of the bottles of bubbly we award the winner of this weekly competition.th: "It had better not be BOLly. This competition is now closed, read the winning entry and the runners up below.

[05 Jan 2007]

Photos: Google Earth showcases natural disasters

Photo Above is the daunting sight of Hurricane Katrina, as seen by ESA's Envisat satellite, off southern Florida, when it was category one on the Saffir-Simpson scale measuring hurricane intensity on 25 August 2005.

Tags: disaster, google, google earth, european

[17 Nov 2006]

Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly

Photos: The legendary satellite dishes of Goonhilly

Photo To give you an idea of the scale of the dish you can just see the tour bus down on the right hand side. This is Guinevere, aka Goonhilly 3, one of the dishes at BT's Goonhilly satellite earth station.

Tags: satellite

[22 Aug 2006]

Photos: The tech behind the Olympic Games

Photo It takes double the amount of testing - 100,000 man hours - and costs 20 per cent more than a similar scale business project would. The city of Turin close to the Alps in the north of Italy is gearing up to host the 2006 Winter Olympic Games...

Tags: olympic games, atos origin

[02 Dec 2005]

Photos: Digital pens the end of paper?

Photo This style of pen has been trialed by driving-test examiners ahead of a larger scale trial next year. Digital pens are starting to take off in the public sector. As well as writing in ink the pens also digitally capture the information.

Tags: digital pen

[03 Nov 2005]

Photos: Playing full scale London Monopoly

Photo London has been transformed into a giant Monopoly board for an online version of the game using real taxis as playing pieces. Instead of the top hat or boot to move around the board, players use a London taxi driving around the streets of the capital.

[29 Jun 2005]

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