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The Scream Auction at Sothebys becomes an Artefact on YouTube Forever?

Munch pastel on board sold for 107 million dollars

Munch sale captured on YouTube, art history and business in the making, digital transience what will happen to our archives, the equal and opposing forces of clamour for open data and archives and the need to profit to fund invention creativity and innovation. How can you secure your future archives and can we achieve a better balance, inspired by a 12 minute YouTube Moment…

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The protection of ideas yields new important collections: Steve Jobs Patent artefacts @ Smithosonian

Steve Jobs’s Patents Interactive Feature NYTimes.com graphic

Steve Jobs honoured with Smithsonian Patent exhibition, what is the significance and resonance with you and your history project….what were the historic origins of intellectual property, copyright and licensing designs, so much of industry still relies on this protection what will happen going forward in an open world where everyone has access to the same knowledge, the start of a series of articles….

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Engineering Archive Network Rail

The work of engineering giants can be explored at the Network Rail online archive

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What was the spinning mule?

The totally incredible Spinning Mule, invented by Samuel Crompton, revolutionised spinning in the C19th
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  1. Northampton and the First Cotton Spinning Mill 1742 Once John Kay had invented the flying shuttle the possibility for mass production of broadloom cloth became a reality. The curb on production was producing enough yarn for the weavers. The opportunity to invent a machine that would speed up the process of spinning yarn encouraged the invention of new machines In 1738, Lewis Paul……
  2. John Kay 1753-54 House destroyed by machine breakers…keeps inventing John Kay Inventor persecuted and house destroyed by machine breakers, he didn’t give-up and kept inventing, now that’s entrepreneurial against the odds…and was this the start of organised labour and uprisings?…
  3. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852 and the first computer programme Aususta Ada Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician who took Charles Babbage’s analytical machine a step further, so why don’t we know more about her?…

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