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This website has been produced by the Science Museum as a trial. The website contains information about objects held in the museum’s public collections, some selected from the Dan Dare exhibition and the museums extensive reserve collections. The website is a wiki which means that anyone – including you – can contribute by adding information or your memories of the objects. You can find a community of users here, each with something to contribute. Explore
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Featured objects  Made by Samuel Watson (1635-1710), London, this is the earliest English astronomical clock in which the sun is fixed, according to the Copernican principle (expounded in 1543)
 Mechanical human power Trevor Bayliss devised a battery-free way to access radio for developing countries, which became a must-have icon for everyone else. Versions with solar rechargeable batteries as well as clockwork drives are produced in South Africa under fair trade arrangements. Note though that the source of energy for the human (food) is not carbon free.
 This Tenmon Bun'ya no zu (map showing divisions of the heavens and regions they govern) star map by Harumi Shibukawa (1639-1716) is a woodcut on Japanese native paper with silk borders made in 1677.
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 Dan Dare & the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain is a new exhibition that showcases hundreds of objects produced by a booming post-war Britain. We’ve added information about many of the of the featured objects to this website, and we want you to help us collect information and memories around them. Explore the objects: 'Building a new Britain', 'Re-inventing the Home', Dan Dare and the Eagle. | |