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The British Library has outed its first smartphone and tablet app. The British Library Treasures for iPhone and British Library Treasures for iPad apps allow you to view and explore some of the library’s rarest exhibits via your phone. Historial artifacts include the world’s oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, Nelson’s Trafalgar battle plan, Galilelo’s letters and for Assassin’s Creed fans, the Leonardo Da Vinchi notebooks. Literary inclusions include Dickens’s first draft of Nicolas Nickleby, Jane Austen’s teenage writing and handwritten lyrics by The Beatles. The British Library Treasures apps are in the store now at the introductory price of £1.19 for the iPhone and £2.39 for the iPad until January 24. The apps will then cost £2.39 and £3.49 respectively.

Out now | From £1.19 (introductory price) | British Library

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These crisp white dials are Twitter Dials. They are currently installed at the British Library as part of the Growing Knowledge exhibition, which looks at new ways to use technology to interact with information. The Twitter Dials show the level of Twitter activity in cities across the world, and are actually built from old repurposed electricity meters.

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A new exhibition at the British Library is showing off a bunch of techie research tools, and you can go and have a play. As well as a raft of multi-screened app-based computers, the British Library have also got in Twitter Dials (more on this shortly), a Sony 360 degree autostereoscopic display, and one of Microsoft’s surface tables.

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The British Library’s rare collection of 19th century fiction will be winging its way to ebook readers like the Amazon Kindle this spring. The library has worked with Microsoft to make 65,000 19th century titles available for free.

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