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Section 1

Video 1 contains BBC content © BBC.

Figure 1(a) Jan Kratochvilla/Dreamstime.com; Figure 1(b) The Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre; Figure 1(c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File: Shard_London_Bridge_May_2012.JPG. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license; Figure 1(d) David Pruter/Dreamstime.com; Figure 1(e) TommL/www.istock.com; Figure 1(f) StockCube/www.istockphoto.com; Figure 2 Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pont_du_Gard_Oct_2007.jpg. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license; Figure 6 Taken from http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html; Figure 8 Taken from http://www.componentforce.co.uk/category/264/plastic-injection-moulding; Figure 9(a) Brian Sullivan/Dreamstime; Figure 9(b) Peter Gudella/Dreamstime; Figure 9(c) Cheryl Casey/Dreamstime; Figure 9(d) Gemenacom/Dreamstime; Figure 10 Taken from http://science-techquest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/do-you-really-understand-everyday.html; Figure 11 Copyright 1997–2007 Keith Doyon (KeithDoyon@MilitaryRifles.com) required wording; Figure 12(a) Taken from http://www.ehow.com/how_7968489_use-ammonia-household-cleaning.html; Figure 12(b) Courtesy of Donald M Hofstrand. Taken from http://www.agmrc.org/renewable_energy/ethanol/using_the_wind_to_fertilize_corn.cfm; Figure 12(c) Taken from www.halelife.co.uk; Figure 12(d) Stuart Pear/ Dreamstime.com; Figure 12(e) © Moreno Soppelsa/Dreamstime.com; Figure 13 Taken from http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/21/transistor-shrunk-down-to-scale-of-single-phosphorus-atom/; Figure 14 Mark Wragg/iStockphoto.com; Figure 14 Imagewell/Dreamstime.com; Figure 15 Courtesy of NIST; Figure 18 © Stavrositu Iuliana/Dreamstime.com; Figure 19 Comet 1: http://www.rafmuseumphotos.com, Spitfire: photo of Spitfire: Franck Cabrol/Gnu Free Documentation Licence/Wikimedia Commons, Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Concorde: photo of Concorde: Steve Fitzgerald/Gnu Free Documentation Licence/Wikimedia Commons, Spaceship: Virgin Galactic LLC www.virgingalactic.com, Wright Bros Flyer 1: Out of copyright.

Section 2

Figure 20 photograph courtesy © Mike Hessey; Figure 21(a) drawing of Faun folding bike (circa 1895) artist unknown; Figure 21(b) http://airframebike.com/; Figure 21(c) Dursley-Pedersen pre 1910 bicycle; Figure 21(d) Dahon folded/unfolded bicycle; Figure 21(e) Trusty Bicycle, © Phillisca in Flickr; Figure 22 Folding Brompton courtesy: www.brompton.co.uk; Figure 23 Brompton prototype © Mike Hessey; Figure 24(a) © Mike Hessey; Figure 24(b) Lotus Monocoque; Figure 26 courtesy of Brompton Bicycle Ltd www.brompton.co.uk; Figure 27 courtesy of Brompton Bicycle Ltd www.brompton.co.uk; 28 Delphi internal combustion engine http://delphi.com/; Figure 30(a) from: www.propertyinbristol.org copyright unknown; Figure 30(b) Reproduced with the permission of the Librarian, the University of Bristol; Figure 31 Millennium Bridge © Peter Visontay Earth Photography http://www.earth-photography.com/; Figure 32 Aaron Neuhauser (2007) at Arizona State University College of Design; Figure 33 Engineering Design courtesty of Catapult Global LLC http://catapultglobal.com; Figure 36 from www.productsafety.gov.au.

Section 3

Figure 44 (author unknown) made available under CC Att SA licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; Figure 46 © M J Richardson made available under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/; Figure 47 Philips CE mark; Figure 51 (top to bottom): VHF © P M Northwood; microwave © iStockphoto.com; infrared image Science Photo Library; X-ray of feet iStockphoto.com.

Section 4

Figure 52(a) sand http://wisconsingeologicalsurvey.org/; Figure 52(b) fibre http://www.exel.co.uk; Figure 52(c) © Intel; Figure 54(a) Kenwood food mixer, http://www.kenwood.com/; Figure 54(b) image from: http://img.alibaba.com/; Figure 58(a) © Sarah Charlesworth (Geograph.org.uk) made available under Creative Commons licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en; Figure 60(b) © C Frank Starmer http://ravenelbridge.net/ made available under Creative Commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/; Figure 60 image from: http://www.1st-product.com/; Figure 61(a) image from: http://image.made-in-china.com/; Figure 61(b) courtesy of © WorldAutoSteel: http://www.worldautosteel.org/; Figure 62 used with permission of Brunswick Corporation © 2013, http://www.mercurymarine.com/; Figure 63 © 160 SX (talk) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BMW_6- cylinder_block_Al-Mg.jpg. Made available under Creative Commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/; Figure 64 http://www.jaguar.co.uk; Figure 67(a), (b) and (c) These photographs are reproduced with the permission of Rolls-Royce plc, copyright © Rolls-Royce plc 2012. http:// www.rolls-royce.com/news/assets/copyright_notice.jsp; Figure 68 image using Turbocad Mac Deluxe v5 from: http://blog.bestsoftware4download.com; Figure 69 http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk; Figure 75 www.layerwise.com.

Section 5

Figure 87 © Yali Shi/http://depositphotos.com; Figure 89 ATT Bell Labs; Figure 90 photographer: Ralf Hogson. Courtesy of Network Rail www.networkrail.co.uk; Figure 91 http://www.nrel.gov; Figure 92 http://com.fr.free; Figure 93 http://www.yougen.co.uk; Figure 94(a) http://energystoragetrends.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/doe-guarantees-145-billion-loan-for.html; Figure 94(b) Sopogy/Keahole Solar Power; Figure 96 United States Environment Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov; Figure 97(a) http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov; Figure 97(b) http://www.contemporaryenergy.co.ok; Figure 97(c) http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis PVGIS © European Communities 2001-2007; Figure 100 http://www.decc.gov.uk Open Government Licence 2.0.

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