Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets

Photos of the month - August 2008

By Nick Heath, 2 September 2008 11:24

See the technology that gave birth to the internet - packet switching.

Forty years after packet switching was invented, silicon.com took a wander through the history of its birthplace: the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex.

This is the Pilot Ace computer at NPL in 1950: one of the first modern computers in the world and the first in London.

Delve deeper into packet switching here.

Photo credit: NPL

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