As people crowded into Manchester to work at the mills and other industries, the social and health facilities in the city had to develop as well.
With one of the highest death rates in the country, especially among the children of the city, Public Health was a real issue in the nineteenth century. The drains and water systems put in to deal with this problem over a hundred years ago are still in use today.
Manchester was also the centre of a forward looking scientific community, many of them members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (The 'Lit and Phil') including John Dalton the pioneer chemist. Later, in the twentieth century, at Manchester University , Ernest Rutherford first split the atom, and in 1948, 'Baby', the ancestor of the modern computer, was built.
Amongst those contributing to Inventing Manchester are:
- Manchester University Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine
- Manchester University School of Computer Science
- Manchester NHS Primary Care Trust
- Jodrell Bank
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