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15 Apr 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
Microscopes would unlock the world at a cellular level. While the modern world has some pretty fancy technology, when you look around, it’s kind of easy to understand why. Miniaturised electronics is just one of the reasons we’re able to lean so heav...
2 Mar 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Drone Technology would help usher in a new technological shift In the years following the Second World War, we saw the rapid development of new technology across many sectors. This would cause ongoing changes to things like life expectancy and our ov...
2 Feb 2025 5 minute read 6 comments Investigator515
This controversial technology has now become commonplace In the post-COVID era, there’s been plenty of fresh controversy around scientific and medical procedures. This has included things like vaccines and even things like the efficacy and safety in...
19 Jan 2025 4 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
Touchscreen technology would help kick off the era of smartphones In today’s world, with smartphones, smart vehicles iPads and even touchscreens on aircraft, it’s easy to take the simplicity of the touchscreen interface for granted. For a long time t...
14 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Gas Turbines evolved to provide conventional power to systems across heavy industry It’s fair to say that the concept of technology can be pretty relative when we consider its context. A Morse code-driven telegram is decidedly boring in a world with...
16 Sep 2024 6 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
Open-source software helps power all types of systems the world over. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As technology has played a greater role in our lives, the subscription-based system has also grown. While p...
30 May 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack Today, we live in the Age of Information, but it hasn’t always been this way. While the printing press provided the first steps towards the true information age, it would take t...
2 Mar 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
The printed circuit board was an essential part of mass production As we’ve explored the development of consumer electronics, you may have noticed a few themes starting to shine through as we’ve examined different components and looked at their effec...
18 Feb 2024 6 minute read 4 comments Investigator515
3D printing has been around much longer than you’d think One of the biggest wins around the miniaturization of small electronics has been the ability for Hobbyists and small-scale manufacturers to produce boutique or bespoke designs, quickly and chea...
31 Oct 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
The Facsimile reigned supreme before the implementation of email In What the Tech?!, we’ve taken the time to explore some of the technology that was essential in helping us establish our connected world. We’ve looked at satellites and transistor...
