Technology and infrastructure

Inventions and systems that changed everyday life.

Turning a sanitation crisis into a major urban sewer-building programme.

Demonstrating large-scale book production using movable metal type in Europe.

Making reading and writing accessible through a compact tactile code.

Opening a linked information system for use across the internet.

Establishing a durable telegraph link across the Atlantic Ocean.

Supporting European economic reconstruction through a major aid programme.

Supplying West Berlin by air during a Soviet blockade of surface routes.

The first mission to land people on the Moon and return them safely to Earth.

Satellite timing becoming a worldwide source of position and navigation information.

A semiconductor amplifier opening the way to smaller and more reliable electronics.

A waterway network connecting regions and supplying successive Chinese capitals.

Diverting and distributing river water for irrigation while managing floods and sediment.

An extensive road system supporting communication and movement across the Andes.

Converting atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia on a scale that transformed fertiliser production.