by Professor Philip Morrison
The Royal Institution, London, Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
The lands Gulliver visited were technologically undeveloped. He saw no steam engine and no gunpowder. What would our machinery have been like had we humans been the size of the men of Gulliver's voyages? Brobdingnag would be a peaceful land with huge but impractical guns. On the other hand, Lilliput was horribly affected by the introduction of gunpowder.
(Recorded this afternoon at the Royal Institution)
(Lecture 5: Tuesday at 6.0 p.m.)
(Colour)
(to 19.00)