Edward Watson is a British technology journalist and oral historian whose work focuses on engineers, tinkerers, and the quiet revolutions they spark. Born in Durham in 1981, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Leeds and later completed a master's in science communication in London. After several years as a design engineer in Cambridge, he moved into writing, serving as features editor at Vector Science Review and hosting the podcast Workbench. His reporting has taken him from Shenzhen factories to Detroit makerspaces and rural clinics in Kenya. He lives in Bristol, where he interviews innovators, volunteers at a community workshop, and keeps a bench cluttered with solder, calipers, and half-finished ideas.
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