Tag: innovation
Swansea’s golden age of innovation
After five years of labour our baby was born last week. It weighed in at a whopping 1.88 kilograms and almost 600 pages. Its many parents are rightly proud of it. You’ll have guessed by now that it’s a big book. Entitled Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’s first museum, it will stand for many years […]
Against zips
Technical innovation is a strange thing. We tend to think that the growth of new and improved technologies is a constant. Engineers, we imagine, are always searching for better ways of organising the way things work. And, beyond perfecting existing devices, they’re always trying to abolish existing, inferior means of achieving ends by inventing completely […]