Department of Trade and Industry Air Division, British Airways and Concorde Finances: Report of the Review Group, DTI (London), February 1984
‘Operation Black Buck’, www.users.zetnet.co.uk/mongsoft/bbuck.htm
Peter Gillman, ‘The Story of the Concorde’, Atlantic Monthly, January 1977, vol. 239, no. 1, pp. 72–81
Christopher Orlebar, The Concorde Story, Temple Press (London), 1986
Martyn Gregory, Dirty Tricks: British Airways’ Secret War Against Virgin Atlantic, Little Brown (London), 1994
Brian Trubshaw, Concorde: The Inside Story, Alan Sutton (Stroud), 2000
‘The Development of Concorde’, Institute of Contemporary British History seminar, 19 November 1998, www.icbh.ac.uk/seminars/concorde.html
Tony Benn, Against the Tide: Diaries 1973–76, London 1989
3 THE UNIVERSE IN A BOTTLE
Author’s interview with David Braben, 12 December 2001
Author’s interview with Ian Bell, 14 December 2001
Author’s interview with David Johnson-Davies, 18 March 2002
Author’s interview with Chris John Jordan, 8 March 2002
Christopher Evans, The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Computer Revolution, Victor Gollancz (London), 1979
Steven Poole, Trigger Happy: The Inner Life of Videogames, Fourth Estate (London), 2000
ELSPA/Screen Digest, Interactive Leisure Software Market Assessment and Forecasts to 2005, 2001
Geoffrey Owen, From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry Since the Second World War, Harper Collins (London), 1999
J. C. Herz, Joystick Nation, New York 1996
Further reading: Edge magazine, for month by month coverage of the British games industry; www.iancgbell.clara.net, for Elite information, and downloadable BBC Micro emulators for PC and Macintosh
4 THE ISLE IS FULL OF NOISES
Author’s interview with Dr John Causebrook, 12 July 2002
Author’s interview with David Targett, 5 September 2002
Author’s interview with Garry Garrard, 23 October 2002
Garry Garrard, Cellular Communications: Worldwide Market Development, Artech House (Boston/London), 1998
J. H. Causebrook, G. W. Miskin, R. G. Manton, Masts, Antennas and Service Planning, 1992
J. H. Causebrook, ‘Vodafone’s MCN Coverage Prediction’, IEE Colloquium on Microcellular Propagation Modelling, IEE Digest 1992/234, November 1992
M. F. Ibrahim and J. D. Parsons, ‘Signal Strength Prediction in Built-Up Areas’, IEE Proceedings, vol. 130, part F, no. 5, August 1983
E. Green, A. Baran, S. T. S. Chia and R. Steele, ‘Propagation Measurements for Highway and City Microcells’, 4th International Conference on Land Mobile Radio, 15–17 December 1987, Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers publication 78, pp. 89–96
P. W. Huish and E. Gürdenli, ‘Radio Channel Measurement and Predictions for Future Mobile Radio Systems’, British Telecom Technology Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Jan 1988, pp. 43–53
Robin Rimbaud/Scanner, Scanner (CD), Ash International 1992 ––, Scanner 2 (CD), Ash International 1993
David Toop, Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds, Serpent’s Tail (London), 1995
Simon R. Saunders, Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems, Wiley (Chichester), 1999
PA Consulting, ‘The Pan-European Cellular Communications Market up to the Year 2000’, September 1988
www.TelecomWriting.com
J. Button, K. Calderhead et al., ‘Mobile Network Design and Optimisation’, British Telecom Technology Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, July 1996, pp. 29–46
Lord Chorley (Chairman), Handling Geographic Information, HMSO (London), 1987
Further reading: Jon Agar, Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone, Icon Books (Cambridge), 2003
5 THE GIFT
Author’s interview with Jane Rogers, 12 November 2002
Author’s interview with John Sulston, 2 December 2002
Author’s interview with Michael Morgan, 3 December 2002
Robert Cook-Deegan, The Gene Wars: Science, Politics and the Human Genome, WW Norton (New York), 1994
Kevin Davies, The Sequence: Inside the Race for the Human Genome, Weidenfeld (London), 2001
Tom Wilkie, Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and Its Implications, Faber (London), 1993
John Sulston and Georgina Ferry, The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome, Bantam (London), 2002
Andrew Brown, In the Beginning Was the Worm, Simon & Schuster (London), 2003
Wellcome News Supplement 4, ‘Unveiling the Human Genome’, Wellcome Trust 2001
Richard Preston, ‘The Genome Warrior’, New Yorker, 12 June 2000, pp. 66–83
Nature, vol. 409 issue 6822, 15 Feb 2001
Nicholas Wade, ‘Beyond Sequencing of Human DNA’, New York Times, 12 May 1998
––, ‘International Project Gets Lift’, New York Times, 17 May 1998
––, ‘Scientist’s Plan: Map All DNA Within 3 Years’, New York Times, 10 May 1998
Wellcome Trust, ‘Wellcome Trust Announce Major Increase in Human Genome Sequencing’, press release 13 May 1998
Celera press releases for 1998 at www.pecorporation.com/press
Elizabeth L. Watson, Houses for Science: A Pictorial History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, CHSL Press (New York), 1991
Meredith Wadman, ‘Company aims to beat NIH human genome efforts’, Nature vol 391, issue 101, 14 May 1998
Further reading: Matt Ridley, Genome, Fourth Estate (London), 1999
6 THE ART OF FALLING
European Space Agency, Mars Express, ESA Publications Division (Noordwijk, Netherlands), 2001
‘Britain in Space’, New Statesman Special Supplement, 20 May 2002
Nick Flowers, ‘Mars on a shoestring’, New Scientist, 19 February 2000
C. T. & J. M. Pillinger (eds.), Beagle 2 Bulletin, Open University Communications Group (Milton Keynes), 1999 onward
Oliver Morton, Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World, Fourth Estate (London), 2002
Marina Benjamin, Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond, Chatto & Windus (London), 2003
Russian Mars 2 probe, www.astronautix.com/craft/marsm71.htm
Jenny Booth, ‘Mission to Mars from Milton Keynes’, Daily Telegraph, 3 March 2002
House of Commons, Select Committee on Trade and Industry, Minutes of Evidence, 11 April 2000
M&C Saatchi Sponshorship, ‘M&C Saatchi Sponsorship joins Beagle 2 mission to Mars’, press release 25 January 2000
Astrium, ‘Astrium Develops A New High Performance Parachute
For Beagle 2 In 3 Months!’, press release 18 October 2002
Paul Withers, ‘Atmospheric Structure Reconstruction using the Beagle 2 Entry, Descent and Landing Accelerometer: Final Report to the Plantetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, the Open University’, 17 August 2001
Department of Trade and Industry, Evaluation of Funding for UK Space Activity: An Overall Report and Reports by Individual Funding Partners, DTI Assessment Paper no. 42, July 2001
British National Space Centre, UK Space Strategy 1999–2002: New Frontiers, August 1999
European Space Agency, Solar System News: Newsletter of the Solar System Division, no.24, September 1999
Logica Space Division
Jardine Barrington-Cook, Phil Davies, Gary Lay, ‘To the Surface of Mars via Titan: Reuse of Huygens Software Components on Beagle 2’, paper at DASIA 1999, Lisbon
Martin Symonds, ‘The Beagle 2 Entry Descent and Landing System (EDLS) Software: Development and Re-use of Software for the Red Planet’, paper at DASIA 2002, Dublin
European Space Agency, ‘Beagle 2 Landing Site Selected’, press release 20 December 2000
Science Systems (Space) Ltd
Mark J. Woods, Helen Dickinson, Roger Ward, ‘Responsive Planning and Scheduling for Spac
e: Requirements and Challenges’, paper at 3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space Applications, University of Salford, 6 July 2002
Further reading: Beagle website at www.beagle2.com; Mars Global Surveyor images at mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs; Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, HarperCollins (London), 1992; Green Mars, HarperCollins (London), 1993; Blue Mars, HarperCollins (London), 1996
Index
A-bomb: decision to develop a British A-bomb (1947) 1
ABI 377 machines 1, 2
ABI 3700s 1, 2
ABI see Applied Biosystems
accelerometers 1
Acorn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Acorn Archimedes 1
Acorn Atom 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Acornsoft 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Games Pack 1
acrylamide gel 1, 2, 3
Ada language 1, 2
Adams, Douglas: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1
adenine (A) 1, 2
aerobraking 1
Aerospatiale 1, 2
‘aerospike’ engine 1, 2
Age of Industry 1
Age of Information 1
Air France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 flight 4590 1
Airbus 1
airline economics 1
Albert, Marc 1
algorithms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
altimeter 1
Amery, Julian 1
Amiga 1
Amstrad CPC 1
analogue cellular systems 1, 2
Andrews, David 1, 2, 3
Anglo-French summit (1981) 1
antibodies 1
Apollo programme 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Apple 1
Apple II 1, 2
Apple IIe 1
Apple Lisa 1
Apple Macintosh 1
Applied Biosystems (ABI) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Archaea 1
Arcoona Plateau, Australia 1
Ares Vallis, Mars 1
Argentina 1
Ariane launcher 1, 2
Ariel-1 research satellite 1
ARM Holdings 1
Armstrong Siddeley Rocket Motors, Ansty, near Rugby 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Ascension Island 1
ASPERA sensor 1, 2
assembly code 1 6502 assembly code 1, 2
Astrium 1, 2, 3, 4
astronauts 1
Atari 1, 2, 3 ST 1
Atlas rocket motor 1
Atomic Energy Authority 1
Attlee government 1
AUEW 1
AZT 1
B-52 raids 1
Babcock International 1
Babylon Zoo 1
bacteria 1, 2
Bahrain 1
Baikonur Cosmodrome 1, 2
Banks, Iain 1
base stations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
BASIC language 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bass 1
Battlezone game 1
Baxter, Stephen 1, 2, 3
Bayh-Dole Act 1, 2, 3, 4
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas 1
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 1, 2
BBC Micro 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
BBC Radio Bristol 1
BBC275, 1
Beagle 2 lander 1, 2, 3
Beaumont, Roly 1, 2
Belgium 1
Bell, Ian gap year job 1 plays Space Invaders 1
produces Othello computer game 1, 2
works on Freefall game 1, 2
meets Braben at Cambridge 1
personality compared with Braben’s 1, 2
start of collaboration with Braben 1
game wish-list 1
Elite game development 1
demonstrates Elite 1, 2
appearance on Channel 4 News 1
his life after success of Elite 1
Bell Labs 1, 2
Benn, Tony 1, 2
Bentley cars 1
Bermuda: Wellcome Trust conference 1, 2
Bermuda Principles 1, 2
Big Bang 1
Big Breakfast (Channel 4 programme) 1
bio-informatics 1, 2
biotech start-ups 1, 2
Birmingham 1
BIS see British Interplanetary Society Black & White game 1
Black Arrow launcher 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 launchings at Woomera
– R0 1, 2, 3
– R1 1
– R2 1, 2
– R3 1
black holes 1
Black Knight rocket 1, 2, 3, 4
Blair, Tony 1
Blue Steel self-propelled bomb 1
Blue Streak ballistic missile 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Blur 1, 2
Boeing 747 1
boffin stereotype 1
bouncing bomb 1
Bournville 1
Braben, David 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 given an Acorn Atom 1
teaches himself about computers 1
his first game 1
creates Fighter game 1
Thorn-EMI sees his work 1
meets Bell at Cambridge 1
personality compared with Bell’s 1, 2
start of collaboration with Bell 1
game wish-list 1
works on a BBC Micro 1
Elite game development 1
demonstrates Elite 1
appearance on Channel 4 News 1
his life after success of Elite 1
Braniff 1
Braun, Wernher von 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
BRCA1 gene 2
Bristol 1
Bristol Siddeley 1
Britain converts its economy to the needs of war 1
space programme (1950s to 1971) 1
decision to develop a British A-bomb 1
her one success in space 1
companies recruit through apprenticeships 1
training in the micro-culture of a firm 1
engineers’ craft skills 1
Concorde 1
end of her history as a traditional industrial power 1, 2, 3
and the public sector 1
minimum subscription to ESA 1
able to take a share in NASA missions 1
see also United Kingdom
BritArt 1
British Aerospace (BAe) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) 1, 2
British Airways (BA) 1, 2, 3
takes over the Concorde fleet 1
British Army: Operation Backfire 1
British Coal 1
British Hovercraft Corporation 1
British Interplanetary Society (BIS) 1, 2 plan for reaching the moon 1
coelostat constructed 1
suspended during the war 1
meets in 1944 to discuss postwar activities 1, 2
response to V2 attack 1
British Rail 1
British Rockets Oral History Project, Manchester University 1
British Telecom 1, 2, 3, 4
BritPop 1
broadcasting 1, 2
Brown, Eric 1
Brussels 1
BTSoft 1
Bullfrog 1
C. elegans (Caenorhabditis elegans) 1, 2, 3
Cairns, Murray 1
Cambridge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Cambridge Evening News 1, 2
Cambridge University 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Cameron, Major-General A. M. 1
Canterbury Tale, A (film) 1
Cape Canaveral 1, 2
Cape Kennedy 1, 2
capillary sequencers 1, 2, 3
Cardiff 1
Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight 1
Casani, John 1
Cassini-Huygens mission 1, 2
Castle, Philip 1, 2
Causebrook, Dr John 1, 2, 3, 4
Causebrook Correction 1, 2
Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge 1
Celera new genome sequencing company 1
to charge for genome information 1, 2
the need to achieve a monopoly 1
and arbitrary restraint on activity 1
&n
bsp; and stringent conditions on data use 1
potential dangers of the company database 1
Wade’s article 1
nickname (Ventapiller) 1
three-months idea 1
free rations for researchers 1
race against Sanger Centre 1, 2, 3
Cellnet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
cellular network 1, 2, 3
Channel 1 2
Channel 4 News 1, 2
Charles de Gaulle airport 1, 2
Chelsea Flower Show 1
Cherryh, C. J.: Downbelow Station 1
Chevaline 1
chromosome 1
chromosome 1 2
chromosome composition 1
Chryse Planitia, Mars 1, 2
City of London 1, 2
Clarke, Arthur C. 1, 2, 3, 4
Cleaver, Valentine (Val) 1, 2
Clinton, President Bill 1, 2
‘co-channel’ interference 1
Cockeram, Sidney, MP 1
coelostat 1
Cold Spring Harbor laboratory 1, 2, 3, 4
Cold War 1
Collins, Dr Francis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Commodore 1 2
Common Market 1, 2
Computer Programme, The (television programme) 1, 2
computers early PCs (1982) 1
problems with BASIC 1
assembly code 1
see also Bell, Ian;
Braben, David;
Elite game
Concorde 1, 2, 3 Air France flight 4590 1
test flight (3 August 1974) 1
exists on sufferance 1
constant crises 1, 2
airlines decide not to purchase 1
Benn’s involvement 1, 2
proving flights 1
supersonic flying 1
witness seminar on Concorde 1, 2, 3, 4
development 1
payload capacity 1
social error 1
subsidies 1
as an anomaly 1
Concorde Treaty 1, 2
insatiable need for money 1
Select Committee’s meeting and report 1
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