Andrew Nahum is Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering at
the Science Museum, London. He recently led the curatorial team which
created the acclaimed special exhibition Inside the Spitfire,
and previously directed the creation of the major new synoptic gallery
at the Museum on the history of technology and science entitled Making the Modern World.
He
has written extensively on the history of technology, aviation and
transport for both scholarly and popular journals. His books include a
study of Alec Issigonis the designer of the Mini and the Morris Minor
cars in Issigonis and the Mini and Frank Whittle in Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet
and he is currently completing a technological and economic study of
the British aircraft industry in the years following the Second World
War.