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routes 1, 2
a commercial flop 1
exclusivity 1
agreement with the government 1
pilots 1
cabin 1
fares 1, 2
support costs 1
immunity from metal fatigue 1
BA takes over the fleet 1
daily run to New York 1
Review Group 1, 2
Concorde Management Board 1
Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et Télécommunications 1
Conservatism 1
Conservative Party 1
Corfield, Frederick 1, 2
Coulson, Alan 1, 2
Creatures game 1
Crick, Francis 1, 2, 3
cytosine (C) 1, 2
Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace 1
Dallas (television programme) 1
‘Dan Dare’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
dance culture 1
Darwin, Charles 1
data compression 1
Dawkins, Richard 1
De Gaulle, Charles 1, 2
De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey 1
De Havilland aircraft company 1, 2
Defender game 1, 2
Denmark: mobile phone use 1
Department of Energy 1
Department of Industry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Department of the Environment 1
Department of Trade 1
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 1, 2, 3, 4
diffraction 1
digital cellular systems 1
DNA (dioxyribonucleic acid) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 discovery of 1, 2
DNA polymerase 1
Dommett, Roy 1, 2, 3
Doom game 1
double helix 1, 2, 3, 4
Dresden 1
Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game 1
Durbin, Richard 1, 2
e-mail 1
Eagle comic 1
Eagle pub, Benet Street, Cambridge 1
Eastgate Tavern, Oxford 1
Eden Project, Cornwall 1
Eidos 1
Elite game 1, 2, 3 wish list 1
introduction of the time dimension 1
money economy 1
aims at a plausible universe 1
new architecture for a video game 1
complexity 1, 2
rejected by Thorn-EMI 1
real-time 3D graphics 1
uncertainties for Acornsoft 1
game development 1, 2
promotion 1
choice of name 1
packaging 1
reviews 1
total sales 1
auction won by BTSoft 1
monthly draw for a silver badge 1
EMI 1
empirical models 1, 2
English Electric 1
Epping, Essex 1, 2, 3, 4
Ericsson 1
ESA see European Space Agency Europa launcher 1
European Commission 1
European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) 1
European Space Agency (ESA) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Science Programme Committee 1
Evans, Christopher: The Mighty Micro 1
Executive Car Telephones 1
Fairbanks, Alaska: satellite tracking station 1
Fairey Delta 1
Falklands War 1, 2
Farnborough, Hampshire 1, 2
fax machines 1
Federal Express 1
Ferranti 1, 2
Festival of Britain (1951) 1
Fibonacci sequences 1
field radios 1
Filton plant 1, 2
Fiterman, Charles (French government minister) 1
Florence 1
Ford, Henry 1
Formula One racing 1, 2
France administrators of state corporations 1
Concorde 1, 2
OMEGA spectrometer 1, 2
free-space field strength 1, 2
Freefall game 1, 2, 3
G5 (five biggest public laboratories) 1
gaiatsu 1
games industry 1
Gamma engine 1, 2, 3, 4
Gants’ Hill, London 1
Garrard, Garry 1, 2, 3, 4
Gates, Bill 1, 2
GEC 1, 2, 3
Gent, Chris 1
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) 1
Germany: rumours of big German rockets 1
gift economy 1, 2, 3, 4
Gill, Trevor 1
Global Positioning System 1
Goldman, William 1
Goodson, A. 1
Gotha raids 1
Gould, Stephen Jay 1
Grantchester 1
graphical user interfaces 1
Green Man pub, Grantchester 1
GSM (Groupe Spéciale Mobile) 1, 2, 3
guanine (G) 1, 2
Guardian newspaper 1
Guernica 1
Guildford, Surrey 1
Halliday, Professor Ian 1
Hamilton Princess hotel, Bermuda 1
Hanoi 1
Hauser, Hermann 1, 2
Hawker Siddeley 1
Hawking, Stephen 1
Health and Safety Executive 1
Heath, Sir Edward 1, 2
Heathrow airport, London 1, 2
Hellas crater, Mars 1, 2
Hellespontus mountains, Mars 1
Hewlett Packard 1
High Down test site, Isle of Wight 1, 2, 3, 4
High Test Peroxide (HTP) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Hinxton 1, 2
Hirst, Damien 1
Holdstock, Robert: ‘Ryhope Wood’ fantasies 1, 2
House of Commons 1, 2, 3 Select Committee on Science and Technology 1, 2, 3
Select Committee on Trade and Industry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Howe, Sir Geoffrey 1
HTP see High Test Peroxide
Human Genome Project 1 start of (1990) 1
target date for finishing the genome 1
MRC funding 1
Wellcome Trust funding 1, 2, 3
Watson tries to persuade Japanese to join 1
Sanger Centre claims one third 1, 2
Ventapiller v. Sanger Centre 1
Hunkapiller, Mike 1, 2, 3, 4
hydrogen peroxide 1, 2
IBM PC 1
Ibrahim, Dr M. F. 1
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) 1
Industrial Revolution 1, 2
Institute for Contemporary British History: witness seminar on Concorde 1, 2, 3, 4
internet 1, 2
Iran, Shah of (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi) 1
Iran Air 1
IRBMs (intermediate range ballistic missiles) 1
Isidis, Mars 1, 2
Isle of Wight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Italy: mobile phone use 1
James, Alex 1
Japan cellular radio research 1
gaiatsu 1
genome research 1
manufacturing 1
Mars probes 1
Jenkin, Patrick 1
Jesus College, Cambridge 1, 2
Johnson-Davies, David 1, 2, 3, 4
Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos 1
Jones, Gwyneth 1
Jordan, Chris 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
juste retour (‘fair return’) 1
Kazakhstan 1
King, Sir John 1, 2, 3
Kubrick, Stanley 1
Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge (LMB) 1, 2, 3
Labour Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lamont, Norman 1, 2, 3, 4
Langley, Virginia 1
Lansing, Michigan 1
Lansing Cellular Telephone Inc. 1
Larkin, Philip 1
Lavochkin factory 1
Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry, MP 1
Leicester 1
Leicester University 1
Space Research Centre 1
Lemmings game 1
Leonardo da Vinci 1
Lewis, C. S. 1 Reflections on the Psalms 1
LH10 hydrogen-oxyg
en engine 1
Lightning jet fighter 1
Lockheed 1
Logica 1 Space Division, Cobham 1
London dinginess during the Second World War 1
V2 attacks 1
Gotha attacks 1
Vodafone cellular network 1
Vodafone shares floated 1
Lowe, Captain Jock 1, 2
Lowestoft, Suffolk 1
Lyons, Joe 1
M&C Saatchi Sponsorship 1, 2
McDonald, Ian 1
Mach 1 1, 2, 3
Mach 2 1, 2
Mach 3 1
Macintosh (computer) 1
Mack, Derek 1, 2, 3, 4
McKnight, Steve 1
McLaren 1
McLeod, Ken 1
Macmillan, Harold 1
Macmillan government 1
McNally, Thomas, MP 1
MacTavish, Bruce 1, 2, 3
Malaysian Rubber Producers’ Research Association (MRPRA) building, Wickendenbury 1, 2, 3, 4
Manchester University: British Rockets Oral History Project 1
Mars 1 and Beagle 2 lander 1, 2, 3
atmosphere 1, 2, 3
Mars 2 crashes 1
wrecks on 1
Viking missions 1, 2
use of parachutes 1
Pathfinder mission (1997) 1, 2, 3
TV weather forecast 1
Mars Polar Lander 1
Mars 2 probe 1
Mars 96 probe 1
Mars Express 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mars Global Surveyor 1
Mars Polar Lander 1
Marshall, Colin 1
Martin-Baker Aircraft Company 1
mass spectrometer 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 Whitehead Institute 1
Masts, Antennas, and Service Planning (Wiskin, Manton and Causebrook) 1
Matra 1
Matra Marconi Space 1, 2, 3
Maxwell’s equations 1
Medical Research Council 1, 2, 3, 4 Laboratory for Molecular Biology 1
Merlin engine 1
meteorite ALH 8400L 1
meteorites 1
meteorological rockets 1
Metroliner express train 1
‘microcell’ 1
Microsoft 1, 2
Mild Seven Benetton Formula One team 1
Millicom 1
Milton Keynes 1, 2, 3, 4
‘minimum criticality’ 1
Ministry of Aviation Supply 1
Ministry of Defence (MOD) 1, 2, 3, 4
Ministry of Supply 1
Ministry of Technology 1
Missile Command arcade game 1
Mitchell, Reginald Joseph 1
Mittelwerk factory 1
Mitterand, François 1
mobile phones 1 900 MHz frequency band 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bell Labs’ experiments 1
Britain’s first public mobile telephone services 1
start of Cellnet and Vodafone 1
cellular network 1, 2, 3
empirical models 1, 2
physical models 1, 2, 3
Okumura model 1
maps 1
first handsets (1984) 1
first call on the Vodafone network 1
Vodaphone’s first users 1
initially only available in cars 1
advantage over fax machines 1
early use by small tradesmen 1
great cultural effect 1
salesmen 1
subscribers 1, 2, 3
UK a unique market for mobiles 1
government injects more competition 1
1,800 MHz frequency band 1
from ‘business tool’ to ‘household luxury’ 1
GSM 1
diffraction of the signal 1
loss of signal caused by ground cover 1
impact on signal of buildings 1
and relationships 1
location changes its meaning 1
mobile radio 1
Moore’s Law 1
Morgan, Michael 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Morgan, Sir Morien 1
Mostek 6502 processor chip 1, 2, 3
Motorola ‘brick’ 1
mouse genome, sequencing 1
Mucky Foot 1
Murdin, Dr Paul 1, 2, 3
Myriad Genetics 1
nanotechnology 1
NASA 1, 2, 3, 4 invites Britain to launch scientic payloads free 1, 2, 3
Mars missions 1, 2, 3, 4
animation of Pathfinder’s descent 1
National Centre for Human Genome Research 1
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 GenBank website 1
National Plan (1965) 1
NATO 1, 2
Nature journal 1
neutrinos 1
New Frontiers 1
New Labour 1
New Lanark 1
New York 1, 2
New York Times 1, 2
New Yorker, The 1, 2
Newbury, Berkshire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Newton, Sir Isaac 1 first law of motion 1
NIH see National Institutes of Health
999 calls 1
Nintendo Entertainment System 1
Niven, Larry: Neutron Star 1
Nokia 1, 2, 3
Official Secrets Act 1
Okumura, Professor Y. 1, 2, 3
Okumura model 1, 2, 3
Olivetti 1
Olympus engines 1, 2, 3, 4
OMEGA spectrometer 1, 2
One2One 1
Open University 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Planetary Sciences Research Institute 1
Operation Backfire 1
‘Operation Black Buck’ 1
Orange 1, 2
Orba dummy satellite 1, 2
Ordnance Survey maps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Orwell, George: 1984 1
Osborne House, Isle of Wight 1, 2
Othello board game 1
PA Consulting 1
PACE: Prediction And Coverage Estimation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PACE1, 2
Pacman game 1
Palmer, Arthur, MP 1
Panasonic 1
Paris 1
Parsons, Professor J. D. 1
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, London (PPARC) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pathfinder mission (1997) 1, 2, 3
Patrinos, Ari 1
PDP-1
Peattie, Iain 1, 2
Peenemünde 1
Pentagon, Washington DC 1
Perkin-Elmer Corporation 1, 2, 3
Petrel meteorological rocket 1
pharmaceutical companies 1
physical models 1, 2
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan) 1
Pillinger, Professor Colin 1, 2, 3
Playstation games 1
Plessey 1, 2, 3 HQ, Ilford 1
Polaris missile 1, 2, 3
Pollard Engineering 1
Pong (the first arcade game) 1
Populous game 1
Porsche cars 1, 2
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands 1, 2
Post Office Tower, London 1
Powell, Michael 1
PPARC see Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, London Pratt & Whitney 1
Preston, Richard 1, 2
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (1995) 1, 2
Program Power software company 1
Prospero satellite 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Proton booster 1
Psygnosis 1
Public Dividend Capital account 1
Quake game 1
Racal 1, 2, 3
radar 1, 2, 3
Radio Cambridgeshire 1
radio planning 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Radio Shack 1
RAF Fairford 1, 2, 3
Rage 1
RAM 1, 2
Reading, Berkshire 1
ribosome 1
Rimbaud, Robin 1
Ring, D. H. 1, 2, 3
Rio de Janeiro 1
RNA 1
RNA
polymerase 1
Rocket Propulsion Establishment, Westcott 1, 2
‘rocket science’ 1
Rocketdyne 1
rockets BIS plan 1
American view (1944) 1
rumours of big German rockets 1
V2 1, 2
Blue Streak 1, 2, 3
solid fuel 1
building a rocket engine 1
Black Knight 1, 2, 3
Black Arrow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rogers, Dr Jane 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Rolls-Royce 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
ROM chip 1, 2
Romford, Essex 1
Rover Group 1
Royal Air Force (RAF) 1, 2, 3 V-bombers 1
Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) 1, 2, 3 V2 examination 1, 2
Guided Weapons Department 1
Space Department 1
Black Arrow launcher 1, 2
Black Knight 1
Royal Lancaster Hotel, London 1
saggar-maker’s bottom-knockers 1
Sainsbury, Lord 1
St Albans, Hertfordshire 1
St Katherine’s Dock, London 1
St Louis, Missouri 1
Sandys, Duncan 1
Sanger, Fred 1, 2, 3
Sanger Centre 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Saturn V 1, 2
Saunders-Roe Ltd 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Scandinavia: mobile services 1
‘Scanner’ 1
scanners 1, 2, 3
science fiction (SF) 1, 2, 3, 4
Science journal 1
Science Museum, London 1, 2, 3
Scott-Scott, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Scragg, Jim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
scramjets 1
Sea of Tranquillity, the Moon 1
Securicor 1
sequencing process 1
Serbia 1
service providers 1
Shelford 1
signals intelligence (sigint) 1
Silicon Valley 1
Sinclair 1 2 ZX Spectrum 1, 2
Skua meteorological rocket 1
Skylark meteorological rocket 1
Skylon 1
Smiles, Samuel: Industrial Biography 1