Collections: Science and Technology

Tomorrow's World

See how visions of the future changed through the decades

Horizon

Horizon tells amazing science stories and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

The Sky At Night

The Great Egg Race

Cracking feats of engineering

Richard Feynman

A look at the world through the eyes of the award-winning scientist

Moon landings

Journeys to the Moon

Nobel Scientists

Interviews with some of the world's greatest scientific minds

Space: Flying Visits

A trip to the stars.

The Computer Programme - It's Happening Now

Who is using computers now, and where is this technology likely to lead?

Panorama - California 2000

Imagining how California's technology industry will evolve by the year 2000.

Panorama - The Real War in Space: We Are Entering the Post-Nuclear Era

Tom Mangold continues his look at space weaponry.

Between Life and Death

Provocative documentary following the doctors who can now interrupt the death process.

Radio link 6,000 miles apart, 1949

Bromley, England and Cape Town, South Africa were linked through the magic of shortwave radio

Bristol's robot tortoises, 1950

Grey Walter’s nature-inspired 'tortoise' was the world’s first mobile, autonomous robot

Fibreglass boats, 1951

The newest, trendiest material to make boats out of was glass. Sort of...

Orkney Wind Power, 1951

"If successful it will represent another step in harnessing the power of the elements" An experimental wind turbine was being erected at Costa Head, Orkney

French to English translator computer, 1955

Dr Booth showed off his swanky device that can translate from one language into another?! Oh là là!

Electronic computer demonstration, 1958

Introducing DEUCE, claimed to be the world's fastest electronic computer

Panorama: VERA Videotape Recorder, 1958

Britain's first videotape recorder was unveiled on a live edition of Panorama

Kids at the Science Museum, 1959

Kids were flocking to the Science Museum in 1959 to play with the latest tech

Trunk call phone boxes, 1959

People were queuing up to get their hands on the latest phone

Mars and Venus speak to Earth, 1959

George King had a message for the people of Earth, from Venus

John Glenn and the Space project in Cocoa Beach, 1962

Panorama was in Cocoa Beach to gauge the mood of John Glenn

At the controls of Gemini, 1966

"Things are rather cramped…" Horizon reporter David Lutyens got to play at the controls of a Gemini spacecraft

New electric cars, 1966

Electric cars have been around longer than you might think, check out the Peel Trident and the Scottish Aviation Scamp

Computer aided weaponry, 1967

The British Army's fancy new kit, self-propelled guns were equipped with a computer-aided aiming system

Dial-a-computer service launched, 1967

Play chess, or find the odds of winning the pools (1 in 15 million); the computer revolution, all for the price of a phone call

Inventors Exhibition, 1969

The News met some inventors, who were all totally perfectly normal people

Computer graphics, 1981

A look at its evolution, from Spacewar! to cutting edge 3D modelling techniques

Instant electronic letters, 1982

Booking a squash court in Hertfordshire, thanks to the amazing Prestel

Unwelcome invasion, 1982

Welsh vicar tries to drive away Space Invaders by ringing church bells

Video piracy, 1982

Video piracy was on the rise thanks to new and more affordable machines. Hollywood blockbuster E.T was making its way across the country two months before it hit UK cinema screens

BASIC palindrome detector, 1983

If you haven't already written a palindrome detector in BASIC (what have you been doing?), here's how

US phones from novelty to cellular, 1985

Micro Live went stateside to check out the latest phones, diallers and something called cellular technology

Optical storage technology, 1986

The laser disc, compact discs and CD-ROMS! Oh my! Micro Live had a veritable cornucopia of optical storage systems on show

16-bit processors, 1986

Just how 16-bit was your 16-bit? Micro Live's Fred Harris explained, for the benefit of the three people who owned a 16-bit machine

Sat Nav CD, 1986

Top Gear checked out futuristic car navigation technology that harnessed the awesome power of CDs

128K Spectrum computer, 1986

Sir Clive Sinclair shows off his latest model, complete with built-in tape loader and an obscene amount of RAM

VHS video editing, 1987

"The process is very simple" Sue Robbie showed how to set up home video editing back in '87

Video on the go, 1988

A "new type of video recorder" meant people could watch TV anywhere they wanted - imagine that!

The Sinclair Zike, 1992

Unperturbed by the failure of the C5, Sir Clive Sinclair revealed his latest invention - the Sinclair Zike

Computer viruses, 1992

With the Michelangelo virus due to strike, Newsround has its floppy discs at the ready

Email - what is it?, 1995

"About half of all internet use is for email, but what exactly is it?"

Nature and Environment

Explore the changing world about us, from the jungle to the polar ice caps

Transport and travel

From aeroplanes to zeppelins, this is an A to Z of getting from A to B

Society and welfare

The changing face of Britain, from lifestyle and culture to law and ethics