In late July, I had the great privilege of attending a special course
about the history of British scientists at Christ Church in Oxford,
U.K.
Going to Oxford to study has always been on my bucket list, so when
this opportunity came up, I jumped at it. As one who has chronicled the
PC industry from its birth and tracked the tech market since 1977, I was
pretty much on top of the modern day scientists and inventors that
drove our current tech revolution. However, when I was in college, my
history and engineering classes paid only lip service to the pioneers in
physics, computing and natural philosophy who did a lot of the research
and experiments in these fields from 1720 through the early 1920s or
thereabout, which laid much of the groundwork for a lot of the
technology we have today.
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