The core of the British Library’s historical collections is based on a series of donations and acquisitions from the 18th century, known as……………………….

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• The British Museum was established in……….., largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane.
• …………………. initiated a joint research project on the “Socio – economic development in South India from the 13th century through the 18th century in 1984.
• ………………….. are collections of computers, software, and hardware that are all connected to help their users work together.
• The …………Library Philatelic Collections are held at St Pancras
• …………………first machine was known as Mark I and originally named the IBM ASCC and this was the first machine that could solve complicated mathematical problems by being programmed to execute a series of controlled operations in a specific sequence.
• In…………, the British Library absorbed the National Sound Archive, which holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes.
• An Act of Parliament in …………… established the principle of the legal deposit, ensuring that the British Library and five other libraries in Great Britain and Ireland are entitled to receive a free copy of every item published or distributed in Britain.
• With Launching of a series of satellites by ……………….broadcasting (audio and video) and teleconferencing facilities are now available in almost every states and UTs of our country.
• …………………is a core protocol used over the SONET/SDH backbone of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), but its use is declining in favour of All IP.
• ………………… 'Sitting on History' was purchased for the British Library by Carl Djerassi and Diane Middlebrook in 1997.