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2019
Blog post
Exploring Sound and Place at the Museum's Gallery Listening Sessions
Following our Gallery Listening Sessions, Dr Jonathan Stafford writes about some different approaches to mapping sound.Stafford, Jonathan
photography, radio, film, National Science and Media Museum, listen, cinematography, television, sound, sound technology, sound map, exhibition, and sound heritage
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2024
Exhibition gallery text
Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music exhibition panel
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2015
Journal article
Capturing the song of the nightingale
The first outside broadcast ever made by the British Broadcasting Company from a natural location was the Nightingale broadcast of 19 May 1924, in which the world-famous virtuoso cellist Beatrice Harrison performed a ‘duet’ with nightingales in her garden. The broadcast was made possible by the Marconi-Sykes magnetophone, an improved...Baird, Iain Logie
journal article, broadcasting, BBC, communication, and radio
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2014
Journal article
Review: Seven Ages of Science, BBC Radio 4
Higgitt, Rebekah
history of science, BBC, and radio
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2021
Doctoral thesis
Women and the wireless: British women's developing roles and representations in the interwar electronics industry
Born out of wartime developments, Britain’s new electronics industry emerged in the interwar period as a successful and growing part of a then fragile national economy. The electronics industry was indeed one of few big growth areas in the British interwar economy, one which facilitated the sector taking on thousands...Tailford, Cameron James
Britain, women in STEM, consumer culture, technology, PhD, doctoral, electronics, cultural history, industry, manufacture, research, war, interwar period, thesis, and radio